Wonder, Time, and Idealization -On the Greek Beginning of Philosophy (original) (raw)

The two-sphere structure of Greek thought [2013

We hope that you remember the two great events that we cited earlier, namely, the revolution in physics, the science of nature, in the early last century, and its anticipation at the hands of a physicist, who migrated to anthropology from his background in physics, mathematics and philosophy and geography, I mean, Boas. Later on another former natural scientist, with the same background in physics mathematics and philosophy, I mean Malinowski, migrated to anthropology and both became the joint author of a new concept of observation which is now commonly known as the participant observation. However, no sooner had Boas found, as we will see later, that materialist weltanschauung that might have been right for physics but was no more adequate in the study of human relations, and that the separation of subject and object was an a priori speculation which had no human experience behind it, the physics in revolution associated with the relativity and quantum theories discovered that such duality or absolute discontinuity between the two spheres of reality which the human subject and nature represented did not exist even in man's relations with nature.

Greek Philosophy in the Twenty-first Century

This article addresses contemporary efforts to understand how the earliest practitioners of philosophy conceived of the philosophic life. It argues that, for Plato, the concept of bios was a central, animating, and structuring object of philosophic inquiry. Concentration on the imagery Plato employed to draw bios into the purview of philosophic contemplation and choice points to interpretative avenues that further the aim of treating the dialogues as complex, integrated wholes, and offers a new approach to the question of the status of image-making in them. The article concludes with thoughts on how an exploration of bios might extend beyond Plato to Aristotle, via an examination of his treatment of the range of human and animal bioi, suggesting that such an examination clarifies the relationship between his analysis of the polis-dwelling animal and his broader investigation of living beings as such.

The Visible And The Invisible In The Birth Of Ancient Thought

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2018

This article is primarily a result of my experience as a teacher. For didactic goals, turning to the origins of philosophy, its consideration in connection with the history of art may prove very productive, since human thought finds its first cultural expression in art. At the same time, in order to study the history of philosophy, it is worthwhile to avoid, by all means, our own urges of deterministic approach, which is the legacy of a certain kind of Marxism, where the change of epochs is considered predetermined, thus excluding the freedom of human creativity at the beginning of every era, as mentioned by H. Arendt. Hegel was also convinced that the philosopher writes only at the end of an era, and he can not at its dawn anticipate the main novelty coming. Therefore, as a methodological basis for my research, I apply the historicophilosophical approach which sees continuity and novelty as the main constants, at the beginnings as well as the endings of each era. There is especially one task that I believe is inevitable in this context: first off, we must clarify the problem of the relationship between religion and philosophy. An answer to this question is pending in the conclusion of this article.