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Heraklit, im Altertum der "Dunkle" genannt, ist einer der tiefsten
Denker Griechenlands. Diese Ausgabe stellt die von ihm erhaltenen
Fragmente vollstandig zusammen und versucht, sie durch moglichst
getreue Ubersetzung dem heutigen Leser zuganglich zu machen. "Diese
Weltordnung hier hat nicht der Gotter noch der Menschen einer
geschaffen, sondern sie war immer und ist und wird sein:
immerlebendes Feuer, aufflammendend nach Massen und verloschend
nach Massen. Feuers Wende: zuerst Meer; des Meeres eine Halfte
Erde, die andere flammendes Wetter... Das Meer zerfliesst und
erfullt sein Mass nach demselben Sinn, der auch galt, bevor es Erde
wurde." B 30, 31"
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.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1964.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1964.
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