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Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy /
Kojin Karatani questions the canonical glorification of philosophy and democracy in ancient Athens by placing Western philosophy's origins in Ionia, a set of Greek colonies located in present-day Turkey that practiced isonomia--a system based on non-rule and a lack of social divisions whereby e...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Japonés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Universal religion, ethical prophets, exemplary prophets
- Ionian society and thought : Athens and Ionia, Isonomia and democracy, Athenian democracy, State and democracy, Colonization and isonomia, Iceland and North America, Isonomia and council
- The background of Ionian natural philosophy : Natural philosophy and ethics, Hippocrates, Herodotus, Homer, Hesiod
- The essential points of Ionian natural philosophy : The critique of religion, Self-moving matter, Poiesis and becoming, Post-Ionian thought, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Post-eliatics
- Socrates and empire : The Athenian empire and democracy, Sophists and rule by rhetoric, The trial of Socrates, The riddle of socrates, Daimon, The Socratic method, Plato and Pythagoras, The philosopher-king, Isonomia and the philosopher-king
- Appendix. from structure of world history to isonomia and the origins of philosophy
- Timeline of the ancient world.