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Inventing Socrates (Hardcover)
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Inventing Socrates (Hardcover)
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Inventing Socrates is a book about the consequences of knowledge
and the coming of age. It is written in knowledge's Western
setting, making allegorical as well as literal use of the event
known as the 'birth of philosophy' - an event that began in ancient
Greece in the 6th-century B.C., when a handful of thinkers first
looked at the natural world through the critical eyes of fledgling
science. Very little of concrete fact is known about this first
philosophy and its protagonists. Only scant fragments of their
writings have survived; and these are nearly always poetical and
esoteric, some no more than a single line. They are freighted with
meanings that might take one in two different directions at once;
and this ambidexterity between ancient and modern has always been
their beguiling feature. Altogether these thinkers are known as the
Presocratics, because they pioneered the rational methods that
Socrates would take to the question of the good life. If Socrates
stands today as an icon of Western self-esteem, these pioneers are
said to show the emergence of that poise from the fug of myth and
religion. Apparently they prove the evolution of Western
intelligence and the value of living today - in the secular
maturity of its latest, greatest hour. But what if their continuing
readability and tactility were actually to become the demonstration
against that? This is not just, then, a book about the foundations
of Western thought. It is a book about all that we invest in the
ideas of ancient and modern. Left to right is the Western way of
learning and growing, but, as Miles Hollingworth shows, the truths
of the human condition are subterranean corridors running
psychologically and eternally.
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