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Cargando... Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers (1947 original; edición 1960)por Werner Jaeger (Autor)
Información de la obraLa teología de los primeros filósofos griegos por Werner Jaeger (1947)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Librería 6. Estante 3. THEOLOGY OF THE EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHERS Jaeger’s basic thesis is that the thought of the pre-Socratic ‘philosophers’ is more recognisably theology than philosophy. Their concerns were with the nature of the divine, and their speculations about the origin of the world were intimately bound up with accounts of the origin of the divine. Thales gives an account of the gods within physical objects; Anaximander defines the divine as ‘the boundless’; Xenophanes pictures God as omnipotent and impassible. In poets such as Xenophanes and Pherecydes we find a movement from the ‘mythological’ deities of Homer toward a more philosophical bent, but it remains focused on the divine. Parmenides views God as beyond even being; Heraclitus proclaims the divine law of harmony and balance. Finding the via media between Parmenides and Heraclitus becomes the work of later Greek philosophy. In Empedocles, Anaxagoras and Diogenes we find various theories of physics and metaphysics, but each alike insists on a direction to nature, a teleology, and at least hints at an organising divine mind that has ordered the world in these directions. Only in the Sophists of the fifth century do we really find a turn away from theology to anthropology. The Sophists are less interested in the truth about God and more in the origins of human religious impulses. Jaeger sees this as the decisive loss of the ‘philosophical idea of God’. THEOLOGY OF THE EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHERS Jaeger’s basic thesis is that the thought of the pre-Socratic ‘philosophers’ is more recognisably theology than philosophy. Their concerns were with the nature of the divine, and their speculations about the origin of the world were intimately bound up with accounts of the origin of the divine. Thales gives an account of the gods within physical objects; Anaximander defines the divine as ‘the boundless’; Xenophanes pictures God as omnipotent and impassible. In poets such as Xenophanes and Pherecydes we find a movement from the ‘mythological’ deities of Homer toward a more philosophical bent, but it remains focused on the divine. Parmenides views God as beyond even being; Heraclitus proclaims the divine law of harmony and balance. Finding the via media between Parmenides and Heraclitus becomes the work of later Greek philosophy. In Empedocles, Anaxagoras and Diogenes we find various theories of physics and metaphysics, but each alike insists on a direction to nature, a teleology, and at least hints at an organising divine mind that has ordered the world in these directions. Only in the Sophists of the fifth century do we really find a turn away from theology to anthropology. The Sophists are less interested in the truth about God and more in the origins of human religious impulses. Jaeger sees this as the decisive loss of the ‘philosophical idea of God’. El genial autor de Paideia, consumó una tarea analizadora de alcance y rigor trascendentales con este ensayo, cuya consagración como obra clásica ha venido determinada por su esclarecedor punto de partida para conocer los orígenes de la filosofía griega. Frente a los investigadores de la escuela positivista y a los adversarios de esta escuela, unos y otros alejados diametralmente en sus criterios sobre la esencia del pensamiento cosmológico de Grecia, destaca el hecho de que las revolucionarias ideas desarrolladas por los primeros pensadores griegos acerca de la naturaleza del universo tuvieron un efecto directo sobre su manera de concebir lo que llamaron, en un sentido nuevo, "Dios" o "lo divino". El estudio de este efecto conforma la investigación que aborda Jaeger, y su desarrollo a través de la edad heroica del pensamiento heleno hasta la aparición de los sofistas. La teología de los primeros filósofos griegos no pretende, pues, ofrecer una historia completa de aquel primer período, sino parcelarlo a fin de analizar sus aspectos decisivos. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesGifford Lectures (1936-1937)
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