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Page 97
... cosmogony that precedes it . These two elements - the cosmogony and the hymn of Creation - are not in origin what Hesiod has made them , two chapters in a single story . The hymn is based on a genuine myth of enormous antiquity , itself ...
... cosmogony that precedes it . These two elements - the cosmogony and the hymn of Creation - are not in origin what Hesiod has made them , two chapters in a single story . The hymn is based on a genuine myth of enormous antiquity , itself ...
Page 100
... cosmogony , as I have remarked , is not a myth , or rather it is no longer a myth . It has advanced so far along the road of rationalisation that only a very thin partition divides it from those early Greek systems which historians ...
... cosmogony , as I have remarked , is not a myth , or rather it is no longer a myth . It has advanced so far along the road of rationalisation that only a very thin partition divides it from those early Greek systems which historians ...
Page 104
... Cosmogony , the opening of the gap is followed by the appearance of Eros , so in his myth the sundering of Ouranos and Gaia is followed by the birth of Aphrodite , who has Eros and Himeros in her train and whose prerogative ( Tuń and ...
... Cosmogony , the opening of the gap is followed by the appearance of Eros , so in his myth the sundering of Ouranos and Gaia is followed by the birth of Aphrodite , who has Eros and Himeros in her train and whose prerogative ( Tuń and ...
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The Harmony of the Spheres 1930 | 14 |
The Unwritten Philosophy 1935 | 31 |
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A. W. Verrall abstract Aeschylus Anaxagoras Anaximander ancient Apsu Aristotle Athens atoms beauty become believe birth called Callicles Cambridge century city-state concepts Cornford cosmogony Creation Cronos death Democritus desire divine doctrine dragon earth Epicurus episodes Eros existence fact Farrington festival Gaia gods Greek harmony heaven Heracleitus Hesiod history of philosophy human hymn ideal immortality individual intellectual Ionian systems Jessica king knowledge lectures Letter Plato living Lorenzo lovers of wisdom Lucretius mankind Marduk marriage Marxian material means mind moral motive myth mythical nature never object origin Ouranos Parmenides passion perfect Phaedo philo physical Plato poets political primitive Prometheus Pythagoras question rational rationalised reason recognised religion religious Republic ritual scientific sense social society Socrates sopher Sophocles soul speculation symbolism Theogony theory things thought Thucydides Tiamat traditional true truth unconscious universe wealth whole word world-order Zeus