The thinker as artist
from Homer to Plato & Aristotle
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Word Count
101,000 words, Guess
Page Count
404 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL657276M
- ISBN-100821411764
- OCLC Control Number36343291
- OCLC Control Numberthinkerasartistf0000anas
- Library of Congress Control Number97002389
and 2 more
- Goodreads3501813
- LibraryThing1136162
Classifications
- DDC880.9/001
- LCCPA3052 .A48 1997
Description
In an attempt to subject representative texts of a dozen ancient authors to a more or less Socratic inquiry, the noted scholar George Anastaplo suggests in The Thinker as Artist how one might usefully read as well as enjoy such texts, which illustrate the thinking done by the greatest artists and how they "talk" among themselves across the centuries. In doing so, he does not presume to repeat the many fine things said about these and like authors, but rather he discusses what he himself has noticed about them, text by text. Drawing upon a series of classical authors ranging from Homer and Sappho to Plato and Aristotle, Anastaplo examines issues relating to chance, art, nature, and divinity present in the artful works of philosophers and other thinkers.
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