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Towards Philosophical COSMOLOGY (from TRAGEDY)

Author : Giuseppe Tulli
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Towards Philosophical COSMOLOGY (from TRAGEDY) written by Giuseppe Tulli and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cosmology evokes today the vision of physical "outer space", in contrast to the "inner space" of psychology. Can these fundamental visions meet? Revealingly, the ancestral visions in myth were cosmological. But then ca 500 BC man became "the measure of all things". As told e.g. in Greek myths, wily Prometheus stole the "fire of the gods" by hiding it in a hollow fennel stalk and gave it to man. The meaning is composite: man is now the "creator", but by an original "trick" or "artifice". However, as later interpreted in classical tradition: "the First Transcendent Fire does not enclose its own Power in matter by means of works, but by the Intellect." Or as in modern psychology, the power of reason - or classically, of logos - as the determinacy of the mind over-comes the self as the determinacy of the body. But, additionally: "the Intellect derived from Intellect is the Craftsman of the fiery Cosmos". Because the cosmos is indeed already "Intellect", or is actively intelligible. I.e. the world is intelligent, and ultimately intelligible from intelligible, mind from mind. The upshot is, paradoxically, that the cosmos is mind, and that the mind surges psychologically from the self by ultimately becoming "the measure of all things". The mythological statement of this crisis came to be known in ancient Greece as Tragedy, and its over-coming, the evolution of the cosmic mind, and hence of man. Ever since, the statements in myth have been either of affirmative or negative reaction to the crisis (e.g. Zoroastrianism and Buddhism), and then the statements in logos as art, science and philosophy. Art is fundamentally Tragic, whereas science and philosophy have barely developed their cosmological vision. The problem is in fact in the contradictory nature of the evolution of the mind from the body, thereby necessarily involving the crisis of Tragedy. Thus, cosmology cannot be just scientific, but ultimately philosophical. And yet, as attested in history, only recently there's been "the first tragic philosopher" with Friedrich Nietzsche, who generally envisioned a "philosophy of the future". Its more precise name is indeed philosophical cosmology. In this respect, the present book actually completes a tetralogy with three previous works - Homo contradictorius, One Whole, and Over Man - that aim at discovering and developing its theoretical foundations.

The Flower of Suffering

Author : Nuria Scapin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110685639
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Flower of Suffering written by Nuria Scapin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek tragedy occupies a prominent place in the development of early Greek thought. However, even within the partial renaissance of debates about tragedy’s roots in the popular thought of archaic Greece, its potential connection to the early philosophical tradition remains, with few exceptions, at the periphery of current interest. This book aims to show that our understanding of Aeschylus’ Oresteia is enhanced by seeing that the trilogy’s treatment of Zeus and Justice (Dikê) shares certain concepts, assumptions, categories of thought, and forms of expression with the surviving fragments and doxography of certain Presocratic thinkers (especially Anaximander, Xenophanes, Heraclitus, and Parmenides). By examining several aspects of the tragic trilogy in relation to Presocratic debates about theology and cosmic justice, it shows how such scrutiny may affect our understanding of the theological ‘tension’ and metaphysical assumptions underpinning the Oresteia’s dramatic narrative. Ultimately, it argues that Aeschylus bestows on the experience of human suffering, as it is given in the contradictory multiplicity of the world, the status of a profound form of knowledge: a meeting point between the human and divine spheres.

Senecan Drama and Stoic Cosmology

Author : Thomas G. Rosenmeyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780520064454
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book Senecan Drama and Stoic Cosmology written by Thomas G. Rosenmeyer and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Nero's tutor and advisor, wrote philosophical essays, some of them in the form of letters, and dramas on Greek mythological topics, which since the early Renaissance have exercised a powerful influence on the European theater. Because in his essays Seneca, in his own eclectic way, subscribes to the philosophy of the Stoic school, scholars and critics have long been asking the question whether the plays, also, could be regarded as transmitters of Stoic thought. Various answers, ranging from a categorical no to an uneasy yes, have been given. With few exceptions, the students who have concerned themselves with this question have looked for their enlightenment in Stoic psychology and Stoic ethics. In this book, Thomas G. Rosenmeyer proposes instead to look at the Stoic science of nature, of the world and human beings in the world, as a more plausible grounding for the difference between Senecan drama and its Greek predecessors. In the process of looking at what the Stoics, especially the early Stoics, had to say about the forces determining natural phenomena, the author uncovers a deeply pessimistic strain in Stoic cosmology, and an interest in physicality and environmental tension, that he finds replicated in the theater, not only of Seneca, but also of the later European tradition indebted to him. Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Nero's tutor and advisor, wrote philosophical essays, some of them in the form of letters, and dramas on Greek mythological topics, which since the early Renaissance have exercised a powerful influence on the European theater. Because in his essays Seneca, in his own eclectic way, subscribes to the philosophy of the Stoic school, scholars and critics have long been asking the question whether the plays, also, could be regarded as transmitters of Stoic thought. Various answers, ranging from a categorical no to an uneasy yes, have been given. With few exceptions, the students who have concerned themselves with this question have looked for their enlightenment in Stoic psychology and Stoic ethics. In this book, Thomas G. Rosenmeyer proposes instead to look at the Stoic science of nature, of the world and human beings in the world, as a more plausible grounding for the difference between Senecan drama and its Greek predecessors. In the process of looking at what the Stoics, especially the early Stoics, had to say about the forces determining natural phenomena, the author uncovers a deeply pessimistic strain in Stoic cosmology, and an interest in physicality and environmental tension, that he finds replicated in the theater, not only of Seneca, but also of the later European tradition indebted to him.

Money and the Early Greek Mind

Author : Richard Seaford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521539920
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Money and the Early Greek Mind written by Richard Seaford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage, which produced the first ever thoroughly monetised society. By transforming social relations monetisation contributed to the ideas of the universe as an impersonal system, fundamental to Presocratic philosophy, and of the individual alienated from his own kin and from the gods, as found in tragedy.

Cosmos and Tragedy

Author : Brooks Otis
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469640112
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Cosmos and Tragedy written by Brooks Otis and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Otis clarifies the moral and theological issues raised in the Ortesia and relates them to certain stylistic and structural qualities of the three plays. He tackles the central questions of guilt, retribution, and the relation between human and divine justice, and he sees a carefully prepared evolution in the trilogy from a primitive to a more civilized form of justice. Otis treats the trilogy as a poem, a play, and a work of theological and philosophical reflection. Originally published in 1981. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

The Flower of Suffering

Author : Nuria Scapin
Publisher : de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110685527
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The Flower of Suffering written by Nuria Scapin and published by de Gruyter. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek tragedy occupies a prominent place in the development of early Greek thought. Yet, its connection to the Presocratic tradition remains at the periphery of current interest. This book shows how Aeschylus' Oresteia - in its own dramatic lang

Cosmology and the Polis

Author : Richard Seaford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139504878
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Cosmology and the Polis written by Richard Seaford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book further develops Professor Seaford's innovative work on the study of ritual and money in the developing Greek polis. It employs the concept of the chronotope, which refers to the phenomenon whereby the spatial and temporal frameworks explicit or implicit in a text have the same structure, and uncovers various such chronotopes in Homer, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Presocratic philosophy and in particular the tragedies of Aeschylus. Mikhail Bakhtin's pioneering use of the chronotope was in literary analysis. This study by contrast derives the variety of chronotopes manifest in Greek texts from the variety of socially integrative practices in the developing polis - notably reciprocity, collective ritual and monetised exchange. In particular, the Oresteia of Aeschylus embodies the reassuring absorption of the new and threatening monetised chronotope into the traditional chronotope that arises from collective ritual with its aetiological myth. This argument includes the first ever demonstration of the profound affinities between Aeschylus and the (Presocratic) philosophy of his time.

Tragic Beauty in Whitehead and Japanese Aesthetics

Author : Steve Odin
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498514782
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Tragic Beauty in Whitehead and Japanese Aesthetics written by Steve Odin and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume endeavors to make a contribution to contemporary Whitehead studies by clarifying his axiological process metaphysics, including his theory of values, concept of aesthetic experience, and doctrine of beauty, along with his philosophy of art, literature and poetry. Moreover, it establishes an east-west dialogue focusing on how Alfred North Whitehead’s process aesthetics can be clarified by the traditional Japanese Buddhist sense of evanescent beauty. As this east-west dialogue unfolds it is shown that there are many striking points of convergence between Whitehead’s process aesthetics and the traditional Japanese sense of beauty. However, the work especially focuses on two of Whitehead’s aesthetic categories, including the penumbral beauty of darkness and the tragic beauty of perishability, while further demonstrating parallels with the two Japanese aesthetic categories of yûgen and aware. It is clarified how both Whitehead and the Japanese tradition have articulated a poetics of evanescence that celebrates the transience of aesthetic experience and the ephemerality of beauty. Finally it is argued that both Whitehead and Japanese tradition develop an aesthetics of beauty as perishability culminating in a religio-aesthetic vision of tragic beauty and its reconciliation in the supreme ecstasy of peace or nirvana.

Tragic Ambiguity

Author : Th.C.W. Oudemans
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004246533
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Tragic Ambiguity written by Th.C.W. Oudemans and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1987-06-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Chapter One: Introduction /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Chapter Two: Separative Cosmologies /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Chapter Three: Interconnected Cosmologies /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Chapter Four: Aspects of Ancient Greek Cosmology /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Chapter Five: Existing Interpretations of Sophocles' Antigone /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Chapter Six: The Stasima of Sophocles' Antigone /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Chapter Seven: The Episodes of Sophocles' Antigone /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Chapter Eight: Tragedy and some Philosophers /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Bibliography /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Index Locorum /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Index of Selected Topics /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois -- Index of Proper NAMES /Th.C.W. Oudemans and A.P.M.H. Lardinois.

Cosmology and the Polis

Author : Richard Seaford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107009278
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Cosmology and the Polis written by Richard Seaford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the earliest drama the clash between the old world of ritual and the new world of money is revealed.

The Process of the Cosmos

Author : Anthony B. Kelly
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1581120605
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book The Process of the Cosmos written by Anthony B. Kelly and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis argues that with the advance of scientific knowledge, particularly in cosmology, Natural Theology can now provide an answer to the question as to the reason for the existence of man and the world. Aristotle had reasoned from the contingency of the world to the necessity of a God. He had also concluded that the world was unworthy of God's concern, as God could not be concerned with a world which was significantly different from God himself. Aristotle's reasoning from the world up to God, together with his inability to reason down from God to the world, established an antinomy. The history of subsequent attempts to avoid this antinomy, and to provide an explanation for the existence of the world, is considered. No such attempt is found to be successful. A hidden assumption in Aristotle's reasoning is exposed. Aristotle's conclusion that the world was not worthy of God's concern followed from his unstated assumption that the world was complete, rather than in process. The thesis argues that the world we know represents a stage in a process towards the possible self-creation of an entity which is similar to God, and so worthy of God's concern. Only a process of self-creation could produce an entity which would be self-existent, and so not significantly different from the self-subsistent God. Each stage of such a process of self-creation, before the final stage, would necessarily be less than perfect. Early in the 20th Century the Emergent Evolutionists had sought to explain the emergence of the biological and mental levels from the material level, without success. Nicolai Hartmann's subsequent ontological investigations made clear the stratified nature of reality. Hartmann's ontology is brought to bear on the problem of Emergence. Hartmann's analysis of ethics and his phenomenology of human nature are also brought to bear on the problem of the nature and role of man in the world. The thesis argues that the world can be understood as a process involving the possible self-creation of an entity like God. In the series of the emergent ontological strata of reality, the physical, biological, conscious and spiritual strata, each stratum is less rigidly determined, and exercises greater freedom than does the previous stratum. The laws of nature vary from stratum to stratum, becoming less deterministic at each new stratum. The present human moral-cultural, or spiritual stratum, exercises complete freedom in relation to the law of this stratum, the moral law. The moral law commands but can not compel. The possible outcomes of this process of Emergence could be either the self-creation of a stratum which is not significantly different from God, or the self-destruction of humanity. In this context, Christ could be considered to be a proleptic exemplar of the final emergent stage.

Tragedy and Philosophy

Author : Walter Kaufmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691020051
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Tragedy and Philosophy written by Walter Kaufmann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical re-examination of the views of Plato, Aristotle, Hegel and Nietzsche on tragedy. Ancient Greek tragedy is revealed as surprisingly modern and experimental, while such concepts as mimesis, catharsis, hubris and the tragic collision are discussed from different perspectives.

Spirituality for the Skeptic

Author : Robert C. Solomon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195312133
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Spirituality for the Skeptic written by Robert C. Solomon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-04 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining the ideas of great thinkers from Kafka to Socrates, this text arrives at an alternative vision of spirituality, one that is non-dogmatic and practical, that should appeal to many seekers looking to make sense of the human condition.

Seneca and the Idea of Tragedy

Author : Gregory A. Staley
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195387430
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Seneca and the Idea of Tragedy written by Gregory A. Staley and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010-01-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of why Seneca wrote tragedy has been debated since at least the 13th century. Since Seneca was a Stoic, critics assumed he wrote with the standard Stoic theory of literature as education in philosophy in mind. This book argues that Seneca was influenced by Aristotle's famous defense of tragedy against Plato's critique.

A Secular Age

Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674986911
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book A Secular Age written by Charles Taylor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.

Tragic Sense of Life (Philosophy Classic)

Author : Miguel de Unamuno
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Tragic Sense of Life (Philosophy Classic) written by Miguel de Unamuno and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragic Sense of Life is one of the most outstanding philosophical essays of Miguel de Unamuno. Under the influence of Søren Kierkegaard and of Saint Ignacio de Loyola, among others, author made a deep foray into the existential problems of contemporary man, radically distancing himself from the Aristotelian prime mover and affirming the spiritual need to believe in a personal God.

Cosmological Aesthetics through the Kantian Sublime and Nietzschean Dionysian

Author : Erman Kaplama
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761862595
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Cosmological Aesthetics through the Kantian Sublime and Nietzschean Dionysian written by Erman Kaplama and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erman Kaplama explores the principle of transition (Übergang) from metaphysics to physics developed by Kant in his unfinished magnum opus, Opus Postumum. Drawing on the Heraclitean logos and Kant’s notions of sense-intuition (Anschauung) and reflective judgment, Kaplama interprets transition as an aesthetic principle. He revises the idea of nature (phusis) as the principle of motion referring to Heraclitus’ cosmology as well as Heidegger’s and Nietzsche’s lectures on the pre-Socratics. Kaplama compares the Kantian sublime and Nietzschean Dionysian as aesthetic theories representing the transition from the sensible to supersensible and as cosmological theories that consider human nature (ethos) as an extension of nature. In light of such Nietzschean notions as the eternal recurrence and will to power, the Dionysian is shown to trigger the transition by which nature and art are redefined. Finally, Cosmological Aesthetics employs the principles of transition and motion to analyze Van Gogh’s Starry Night in an excursus.