The Origins of Philosophy: Its Rise in Myth and the Pre-Socratics

by Drew A. Hyland

Book Overview

Dr. Drew A. Hyland traces the origins of philosophy from its earliest roots in Babylonian and Homeric-Hesiodic mythology to its flowering in the Pre-Socratic imagination. Using selections from the Epic of Gilgamesh, Hesiod, Homer, Pythagoras, Zeno, Plato, and Socrates, to name but a few, Dr. Hyland argues against what he calls the "historical approach" to the origin of philosophy. In Hyland's view the differentiation of the human self from notions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573923508
• ISBN13: 9781573923507
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"