The Beginning of Knowledge
Gadamer, Hans-georg 1900-2002
The Beginning of Knowledge Hans-georg Gadamer - U.S.A. Continuum International 2003 - 148tr. paperback, illustrations 21cm - Athlone contemporary european thinkers .
Gadamer is interested not so much in the origins of philosophy as in the origins of knowledge in general - everything, that is, that we call ""science"". Beginning with a hermeneutical and philological investigation of the Heraclitus fragments, Gadamer then moves on to a dicussion of the Greek atomists and the Presocratic cosmologists. Gadamer concludes by elaborating on the profound debt that modern scientific thought owes to the Greek scientific tradition.
0826414591
Philosophy
182 / G123-H25
The Beginning of Knowledge Hans-georg Gadamer - U.S.A. Continuum International 2003 - 148tr. paperback, illustrations 21cm - Athlone contemporary european thinkers .
Gadamer is interested not so much in the origins of philosophy as in the origins of knowledge in general - everything, that is, that we call ""science"". Beginning with a hermeneutical and philological investigation of the Heraclitus fragments, Gadamer then moves on to a dicussion of the Greek atomists and the Presocratic cosmologists. Gadamer concludes by elaborating on the profound debt that modern scientific thought owes to the Greek scientific tradition.
0826414591
Philosophy
182 / G123-H25