[MD] Food for Thought

[LARAMIE LOEWEN]

"Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks" - Chapter 3

Happy New Year, Marsha.

Cheers,
Laramie
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: MarshaV<mailto:marshalz at charter.net> 
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  Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 2:17 AM
  Subject: Re: [MD] Food for Thought


  At 05:33 PM 12/30/2006, Ham wrote:

  >"'Greek philosophy seems to begin with a preposterous fancy, with the
  >proposition that water is the origin and mother-womb of all things.  Is it
  >really necessary to stop there and become serious?  Yes, and for three
  >reasons: firstly, because the preposition does enunciate something about the
  >origin of things; secondly, because it does so without figure and fable;
  >thirdly and lastly, because it contained, although only in the chrysalis
  >state, the idea: everything is one. ... That which drove him (Thales) to
  >this generalization was a metaphysical dogma, which had its origin in a
  >mystic intuition and which together with the ever renewed endeavors to
  >express it better, we find in all philosophies- the proposition: everything
  >is one!' (Friedrich Nietzsche, The Greeks)

  Happy New Year!

   From which book is this a quote?  I could not find a book with the 
  title 'The Greeks'.

  Marsha

     


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