The Philosophic Spirit Its Meaning and Presence Donald Phillip Verene, Alexander Gungov

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verene, Donald Phillip, Author.

Contributor:

Gungov, Alexander, Editor.

Series:

Studies in historical philosophy ; Volume 7.

Studies in Historical Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Philosophie.

Philosophic ideas.

Philosophische Ideen.

Geschichte der Philosophie.

History of philosophy.

Local Subjects:

Philosophy.

Philosophie.

Philosophic ideas.

Philosophische Ideen.

Geschichte der Philosophie.

History of philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (147 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hannover ibidem 2023

Biography/History:

Donald Phillip Verene is Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy at Emory University and Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He is the author of numerous books, including Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge, Knowledge of Things Human and Divine, Vico's New Science: A Philosophical Commentary, and The Rhetorical Sense of Philosophy.

Donald Phillip Verene is Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy at Emory University and Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He is the author of numerous books, including Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge, Knowledge of Things Human and Divine, Vico's New Science: A Philosophical Commentary, and The Rhetorical Sense of Philosophy.

Summary:

The philosophic spirit has persisted as part of the human spirit and human culture for over twenty-five centuries. This book presents examples of this spirit from its beginnings in Greek thought through the modern age. Among these examples are an account of Empedocles jumping into the volcano of Mt. Etna to join the gods, Plato’s quarrel with the poets, St. Anselm’s famous argument for the existence of God, Descartes’s Archimedean proof of his own existence, and Kant’s description of the perfect island of the Understanding. Attention is also given to Cassirer’s concept of symbolic forms and Whitehead’s theory of actual entities. The volume concludes with a discussion, based on the thought of Giambattista Vico, of a way to approach philosophy through a balance between the Ancient and the Moderns.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Note on Interlinear Citations

Introduction: The Inscriptions at Delphi

Part One Beginnings

1. Hesiod's Muses

2. Thales of Miletus

3. Pythagoras of Samos

4. Empedocles of Agrigentum

Part Two Ancients

5. Socrates's Method

6. Plato's Quarrel

7. Aristotle's Ethics

8. Lucretius's Poem

Part Three Christians

9. Boethius's Consolation

10. Anselm's Argument

11. Cusanus's Learned Ignorance

12. Bruno's Infinite Worlds

Part Four Moderns

13. Descartes's Archimedean Point

14. Hobbes's Leviathan

15. Vico's Poetic Wisdom

16. Rousseau's Promethean Discourse

17. Kant's Schematism

18. Hegel's Speculative Sentence

19. Cassirer's Symbolic Forms

20. Whitehead's Actual Entities

Epilogue: Ancients and Moderns

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

[Auflage]

Other Format:

Print version: Verene, Donald Phillip The Philosophic Spirit

ISBN:

9783838277813

OCLC:

1378071194

Publisher Number:

9783838277813