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