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Take , as a simple instance , the notion of cosmogony — the becoming or beginning of existence of an ordered world . The abstract notion of becoming was still merged in the concrete image of birth : the words genesis , gignesthai ...
Take , as a simple instance , the notion of cosmogony — the becoming or beginning of existence of an ordered world . The abstract notion of becoming was still merged in the concrete image of birth : the words genesis , gignesthai ...
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It may well be a fossilised association , holding together elements of thought that have become dissociated in the language of prose . After the primitive stage of genuine myth - making , there is a transitional period , in which the ...
It may well be a fossilised association , holding together elements of thought that have become dissociated in the language of prose . After the primitive stage of genuine myth - making , there is a transitional period , in which the ...
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Eros now becomes the philosophic impulse to grasp abstract truth and to discover that kind of beauty which the geometer finds in a theorem and the astronomer in the harmonious order of the heavenly bodies . By now we have lost sight of ...
Eros now becomes the philosophic impulse to grasp abstract truth and to discover that kind of beauty which the geometer finds in a theorem and the astronomer in the harmonious order of the heavenly bodies . By now we have lost sight of ...
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Contents
The Harmony of the Spheres 1930 | 14 |
The Unwritten Philosophy 1935 | 28 |
Platos Commonwealth 1935 | 47 |
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abstract Aeschylus ancient answer appears Aristotle associations authority beauty become beginning believe birth bodies called century character city-state complete concepts cosmogony course Creation criticism death described desire divine doctrine earth element Eros event existence experience explain expression fact feeling finally follow force given gods Greek hand harmony heaven Hesiod human ideal ideas individual interest Ionian Italy king knowledge later lectures less light living look lovers material matter means mentioned mind moral myth mythical nature never object once origin perfect perhaps philosophy physical Plato political possible produce question reason Republic ritual seems sense separation social society Socrates soul space speaks theory things thought traditional true truth unconscious universe wealth whole wisdom writes Zeus
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| Title | The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays |
| Author | Francis Macdonald Cornford |
| Editor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Contributor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Publisher | University Press, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 138 pages |
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