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The Origin of Philosophy (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Origin of Philosophy (Paperback, New Ed)
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Writers think in images, philosophers in abstractions. However,
when a reasoner also wants to be imaginative, says Borges, things
go slightly awry, as witness Ortega, "whose good thought is
obstructed by difficult and adventitious metaphors." Not
surprisingly, in Ortega's unfinished essay, The Origin of
Philosophy which we are told he regarded as potentially "the most
important of his books," we find him paying close attention to the
language, the nuances of Parmenides or Heraclitus, and speaking of
the "need to compose an ultra-grammar of stylization." Ortega's
attraction to the artistic properties inherent in dialectical
processes is here, however, very relevant, for, in discussing the
pre-Socratics and the background of philosophy in general,
questions of etymology, even of rhetoric, are paramount: these
bring us to the root of conceptual bases or cosmological
formulations. "We do not know," Ortaga says wittily, "whether a
dual world existed prior to philosophy"; and he cautions elsewhere,
philosophy itself only "came about one fine day in Greece...with no
guarantee...of its perpetuation." It is a pity this Spanish
mandarin never completed such a brilliantly speculative work.
(Kirkus Reviews)
Ortega deals here with the roots and historical justification of
philosophy, and the question of philosophy's essential unity.
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