European thought begins with the Greeks. Scientific and philosophic
thinking--the pursuit of truth and the grasping of unchanging
principles of life--is a historical development, an achievement;
and, as Bruno Snell writes in The Discovery of the Mind, nothing
less than a revolution. The Greeks did not take mental resources
already at their disposal and merely map out new subjects for
discussion and investigation. In poetry, drama, and philosophy they
in fact discovered the human mind.
The stages in man's gradual understanding of himself are
revealed in the course of ancient literature from Homer to Virgil.
A rational view of the nature of man slowly established itself in
the creations of epic and lyric poetry, tragedy and literary
criticism, pre-Socratic thought, and early Greek ethics all the way
to the discovery of humanitas and the spiritual landscape of
Virgil's Arcadia. The Discovery of the Mind is a landmark work in
tracing this evolution of consciousness--one of the distinguishing
characteristics of the history of man.
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