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... but I know not whether you are capable of the perfect revelation — the goal to which they lead . I will not fail , on my part , to express it as well as I can ; you must try to follow , to the best of your power .
... but I know not whether you are capable of the perfect revelation — the goal to which they lead . I will not fail , on my part , to express it as well as I can ; you must try to follow , to the best of your power .
Page 96
The cosmogony , so announced in the prelude , follows immediately . ... that this is conscious metaphor : a “ birth ' can only follow upon a marriage , but here it occurs ' without love or marriage ' , ÖTEP PIAÓTNTOS Éqiuépou ( 132 ) .
The cosmogony , so announced in the prelude , follows immediately . ... that this is conscious metaphor : a “ birth ' can only follow upon a marriage , but here it occurs ' without love or marriage ' , ÖTEP PIAÓTNTOS Éqiuépou ( 132 ) .
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If we follow this track , we shall , I believe , discover the framework of those episodes which make up the third element in Hesiod's Theogony — the mythical hymn to Zeus . THE OPENING OF CHAOS We may start from that curious feature I ...
If we follow this track , we shall , I believe , discover the framework of those episodes which make up the third element in Hesiod's Theogony — the mythical hymn to Zeus . THE OPENING OF CHAOS We may start from that curious feature I ...
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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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