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Inventing Socrates

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Inventing Socrates is a book about the consequences of knowledge and the coming of age. It is written in knowledge’s Western setting, making allegorical as well as literal use of the event known as the ‘birth of philosophy’ – an event that began in ancient Greece in the 6th-century B.C., when a handful of thinkers first looked at the natural world through the critical eyes of fledgling science. Very little of concrete fact is known about this first philosophy and its protagonists. Only scant fragments of their writings have survived; and these are nearly always poetical and esoteric, some no more than a single line. They are freighted with meanings that might take one in two different directions at once; and this ambidexterity between ancient and modern has always been their beguiling feature. Altogether these thinkers are known as the Presocratics, because they pioneered the rational methods that Socrates would take to the question of the good life. If Socrates stands today as an icon of Western self-esteem, these pioneers are said to show the emergence of that poise from the fug of myth and religion. Apparently they prove the evolution of Western intelligence and the value of living today – in the secular maturity of its latest, greatest hour. But what if their continuing readability and tactility were actually to become the demonstration against that? This is not just, then, a book about the foundations of Western thought. It is a book about all that we invest in the ideas of ancient and modern. Left to right is the Western way of learning and growing, but, as Miles Hollingworth shows, the truths of the human condition are subterranean corridors running psychologically and eternally.

Author Biography:

Miles Hollingworth is Professor in the Patristic Institute, the Augustinianum, Rome, Italy. He is the author of The Pilgrim City (2010), which was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone History Book Prize, and Saint Augustine of Hippo: An Intellectual Biography (2013), both published by Bloomsbury. His writing has won awards from the Society of Authors and the Royal Society of Literature.
Release date Australia
August 27th, 2015
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
176
Dimensions
140x216x11
ISBN-13
9781623563035
Product ID
23031221

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