Wisdom's Odyssey

From Philosophy to Transcendental Sophistry
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-90-420-0180-0
Verlag: Editions Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 46, 271 Seiten, Format (B × H): 16 mm x 23 mm

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Studies in the History of Western Philosophy

This book establishes that the ancient Greeks had a prevailing method of doing philosophy which was rooted in philosophical realism. Through extensive historical and philosophical analysis, it demonstrates that this method was challenged in ancient times by an apocryphal notion of philosophy which eventually became confused with philosophical reasoning, and was passed on to posterity through the work of Christian theologians until it was called into question by leading thinkers of the thirteenth century. It shows how this thirteenth-century challenge influenced the growth of the Renaissance humanist movement and how this movement, in turn, passed on to modernity the same apocryphal notion of philosophy as a rhetorical theology of allegorical prefiguration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Redpath, Peter A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword. Acknowledgements. Preface. ONE Descent from Olympus. TWO Athens Meets Jerusalem. THREE Handmaiden to Musaeus: Philosophy in the Service of Christian Humanism. FOUR Hidden Behind the Glass Darkly. FIVE Broken Mirrors and Priestly Images. SIX Search for Teiresias: The Trivium Overthrown. SEVEN The System Meets the Book of Nature. Notes. Bibliography. About the Author. Index.