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Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient India

Richard Seaford · 2024

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"I define 'philosophy' as the attempt to explain systematically, and without relying on superhuman agency, the fundamental features of the universe and the place of human beings in it. This is not the only possible definition, but is the most revealing one for our period, in which we find the advent of 'philosophy' (or something very like it) in Greece, India, and China, and nowhere else"--

Book details

Year
2024
Language
English
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Editions
4
Pages
385
ISBN
9781108730815

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