Fragile, Fragile Philosophy
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Fragile, Fragile Philosophy

  1. 112 pages
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Fragile, Fragile Philosophy

About this book

This fragile, fragile philosophy unexpectedly developed an enormous power of conviction and direction.It invented individual rights, it founded our way of thinking, it created science in the third century B.C. in Alexandria, it invented democracy.From what characteristics does all this power, the fragile philosophy, derive? These ancestors of ours, the classical philosophers, had postulated three things, then forgotten.a) The word is not the thing, the sentence is not the fact, the language is not the world. Not even an image of them.b) Our thinking is groundless, because the initial concepts, let's say the axioms from which we start to think, are not based on anything, because they are precisely the first.c) Thought, rational discursive intellect, and language are the same, logos, one word indicates one and the other. Thought and language are the same thing.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. About the Author
  3. Dedication
  4. Copyright Information Ā©
  5. Acknowledgment
  6. Author’s Note
  7. Fragile, Fragile Philosophy
  8. Only One Exception: China
  9. Enigma?
  10. Our Thinking
  11. Parmenides of Elea, the Beginning
  12. The Truth, the Universe
  13. A Bud on an Ancient Plant
  14. But What if It Isn’t?
  15. Anamnesis?
  16. Logos and Universe
  17. History, with a Capital Letter
  18. Does the Individual Exist?
  19. The Logos of AlĆØtheia
  20. The Fragile Fathers
  21. Gorgias and the Nothing
  22. Gorgias and the Art
  23. The Challenge of Chrysippos
  24. But Chrysippos Does More
  25. Wittgenstein Reinvents the Greats
  26. A Relativistic Leap
  27. Even Zeno Was Walking
  28. Idealists and Positivists
  29. No, Hegel, No
  30. The Greek Reason
  31. Still on the Greek Reason
  32. What I Can Imagine and What Not
  33. ā€œSocrates Does Not Writeā€
  34. Antisthenes
  35. Space, Time, and Democritus
  36. Probability
  37. Majorana
  38. Einstein, the Warning of Mystery
  39. Now, What Do We Do with Philosophy?
  40. Modern Myths
  41. Bibliography