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The Figure of Nature: On Greek Origins

By John Sallis

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
0253023122, 9780253023124
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1730319 bytes)
Series
Studies in Continental Thought
Edition
Reprint
Pages
268\268
Time added
2017-10-17 09:13:36
Cosmology;Astronomy & Space Science;Science & Math

Description

Broaching an understanding of nature in Platonic thought, John Sallis goes beyond modern conceptions and provides a strategy to have recourse to the profound sense of nature operative in ancient Greek philosophy. In a rigorous and textually based account, Sallis traces the complex development of the Greek concept of nature. Beginning with the mythical vision embodied in the figure of the goddess Artemis, he reanimates the sense of nature that informs the fragmentary discourses of Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Empedocles and shows how Plato takes up pre-Socratic conceptions critically while also being transformed. Through Sallis’s close reading of the Theaetetus and the Phaedo, he recovers the profound and comprehensive concept of nature in Plato’s thought.

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