Mythos and Logos : : How to Regain the Love of Wisdom.

• Superior document: Value Inquiry Book
• VerfasserIn: Anderson, Albert A,
• TeilnehmendeR: Hicks, Steven V.; Witkowski, Lech.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2004.; ©2004.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Value Inquiry Book
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 pages)

This title contains15 essays all seeking to regain the original meaning of philosophy as the love of wisdom. Mythos and Logos are two essential aspects of a quest that began with the ancient Greeks. As concepts fundamental to human experience, Mythos and Logos continue to guide the search for truth in the 21st century.

Table of Contents

Editorial ForewordEditorial Introduction: Loving Wisdom by Albert Anderson, Steven V. Hicks, and Lech WitkowskiSection 1: Mythos, Logos, and Atopia: Philosophy as Disruptive WisdomONE Steven V. HICKS and Alan ROSENBERG: Philosophy as Atopos: Disruptive Wisdom as a Way of LifeTWO Charles E. SCOTT: Helen, Heidegger, and the Wisdom of NemesisTHREE David KONSTAN: Parrhēsia: Ancient Philosophy in Opposition FOUR Steven V. HICKS and Alan ROSENBERG: The Figural Dimension of Nietzsche's Thought Section 2: Aesthetic and Psychological PerspectivesFIVE Albert A. ANDERSON: Mythos, Logos, and Telos: How to Regain the Love of WisdomSIX Joel BECK: Bearing Insight: Anxious WisdomSEVEN Kyoo E. LEE: Poetics of Philosophical Somnambulism: A Case of Descartes the Olympian DreamerEIGHT Bret W. DAVIS: A Socrates Who Practices Music: The Dynamic Intertwining of Mythos and Logos: Art and Science in Nietzsche's The Birth of TragedyNINE Victor J. KREBS: Descending into Primaeval Chaos: Philosophy, the Body, and the Pygmalionic ImpulseSection 3: Ancient Wisdom and Its Modern ShapesTEN William Andrew MYERS: Heraclitus' Logos as a Paradigm of the Human UniversalELEVEN Władyslaw Stróżewski: Logos and MythosTWELVE Paul C. SANTILLI and Kristine S. SANTILLI: On the Strange Relation between Heroic Socrates and Wise AchillesSection 4: Social Cultural, and Religious Visions of WisdomTHIRTEEN Franklin PERKINS: Wisdom in Mengzi: Between Self and NatureFOURTEEN Daniel E. SHANNON: Schelling's Philosophy of Mythology: The Value of Myth to PhilosophyFIFTEEN Keping WANG: Zhuangzi's Way of Thinking through Fables About the ContributorsIndex.