How to Constitute a World

by Eva Brann

Book Overview

Eva Brann, who has taught at St. John's College, Annapolis, for sixty years, wrote these essays largely as clarifying incitements to students who were reading, or ought to have been reading, the works discussed. In her words:

"The first essay looks at the 'Pre-Socratics' Heraclitus and Parmenides. They appear to be in radical opposition, but they are really doing the same, new thing: seeing the world as an intelligible whole. Both observe...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589881249
• ISBN13: 9781589881242
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Paul Dry Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"