Principium Sapientiae: The Origins of Greek Philosophical Thought

PRINCIPIUM SAPIENTIAE......Page 3
TABLE OF CONTENTS (interactive)......Page 5
PREFACE......Page 7
PART I. EMPIRICISM VERSUS INSPIRATION ......Page 9
I. Problems and aims of ancient natural philosophy ......Page 11
II. Epicurus ......Page 20
III. The empirical theory of knowledge ......Page 39
IV. Anamnesis ......Page 53
V. Seer, poet, philosopher ......Page 70
VI. Shamanism ......Page 96
VII. The philosopher as successor of the seer-poet ......Page 115
VIII. The quarrel of the seer and the philosopher ......Page 135
IX. The quarrel of philosophy and poetry ......Page 151
PART II. PHILOSOPHICAL COSMOGONY AND ITS ORIGINS IN MYTH AND RITUAL ......Page 165
X. Anaximander's system ......Page 167
XI. Pattern of Ionian cosmogony ......Page 195
XII. Hesiod's Hymn to Zeus ......Page 210
XIII. Life story of Zeus ......Page 222
XIV. Cosmogonical myth and ritual ......Page 233
XV. The Hymn to Marduk and the Hymn to Zeus ......Page 247
XVI. The Canaanite myth and the Palestinian ritual ......Page 258
APPENDIX......Page 265
GENERAL INDEX (interactive)......Page 269
INDEX OF GREEK WORDS ......Page 279