The Greeks and the IrrationalUniversity of California Press, 15 בנוב׳ 2023 - 336 עמודים In this philosophy classic, which was first published in 1951, E. R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism. Using the analytical tools of modern anthropology and psychology, Dodds asks, "Why should we attribute to the ancient Greeks an immunity from 'primitive' modes of thought which we do not find in any society open to our direct observation?" Praised by reviewers as "an event in modern Greek scholarship" and "a book which it would be difficult to over-praise," The Greeks and the Irrational was Volume 25 of the Sather Classical Lectures series. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 2004. In this philosophy classic, which was first published in 1951, E. R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism. Using the analytical tools of modern anthropology and psychology, Dodds asks, "Why should we attribute t |
תוכן
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From ShameCulture to GuiltCulture | 28 |
The Blessings of Madness | 64 |
DreamPattern and CulturePattern | 102 |
The Greek Shamans and the Origin of Puritanism | 135 |
Rationalism and Reaction in the Classical Age | 179 |
Plato the Irrational Soul and the Inherited Conglomerate | 207 |
The Fear of Freedom | 236 |
Maenadism | 270 |
Theurgy | 283 |
INDEX | 315 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Aesch Aeschylus ancient Apol Apollo appears apud Archaic Age Aristides Aristotle Asclepius Athens attributed belief Bidez Boyancé called Chaldaean chap Corybantic cult culture daemon dancing Diels Diog Dionysiac Dionysus divine doctrine dreams Empedocles Epimenides Euripides evidence Festugière fifth century gods Greece Greek Harv Hellenistic Heraclitus Herodotus Hesiod Hipp Homer human Iamblichus ibid idea Iliad irrational later Laws Linforth madness maenads magical mind moral myst natural Nilsson occult oracles Orphic passage perhaps Phaedo Pindar Plato Plut Plutarch poet possession primitive Proclus Psellus psyche psychic psychological Pyth Pythagoras Pythagorean Pythia quoted rational recognise religion religious rites ritual Rohde says seems sense shaman shamanistic Socrates Soph soul Suidas supernatural Theol theurgy things thought tion tradition trance Wilamowitz words Xenophanes Zalmoxis Zeus γὰρ δὲ ἐν καὶ οἱ περὶ τὰ τε καὶ τὴν τὸ τὸν τοῦ τῶν ὡς
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 51 - I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, And the glory of his high looks. For he saith, "By the strength of my hand I have done it, And by my wisdom; for I am prudent...
עמוד 103 - In like manner arises the myth. The myth is not an attempted explanation of either facts or rites. Its origin is not in "directed thinking," it is not rationalization. The myth is a fragment of the soul life, the dream-thinking of the people, as the dream is the myth of the individual2. As Freud says, " it is probable that myths correspond to the distorted residue of the wish phantasies of whole nations, the secularized dreams of young humanity.
עמוד 51 - Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die, Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Whp is the Lord ? or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
עמוד 287 - It is not thought that links the theurgists with the gods: else what should hinder theoretical philosophers from enjoying theurgic union with them? The case is not so. Theurgic union is attained only by the efficacy of the unspeakable acts performed in the appropriate manner, acts which are beyond all comprehension, and by the potency of the unutterable symbols which are comprehended only by the gods. . . . Without intellectual effort on our part the tokens (ffvvOrinara) by their own virtue accomplish...
עמוד 3 - not I was the cause of this act, but Zeus and my portion and the Erinys who walks in darkness: they it was who in the assembly put wild ate in my understanding, on that day when I arbitrarily took Achilles
עמוד 1 - Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
עמוד 100 - Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, I will compose poetry ! The greatest poet even cannot say it, for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...
עמוד 139 - It was here that the new religious pattern made its fateful contribution: by crediting man with an occult self of divine origin, and thus setting soul and body at odds, it introduced into European culture a new interpretation of human existence, the interpretation we call puritanical.
עמוד 157 - The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative. On this point sceptical or agnostic peoples are nearly, if not wholly, unknown.
עמוד 255 - It is still very far from perfect, nor is it always skillfully handled; in many fields, including that of history, its possibilities and its limitations have still to be tested. Yet it seems to offer the hope that if we use it wisely we shall eventually understand our horse better; that, understanding him better, we shall be able by better training to overcome his fears; and that through the overcoming of fear horse and rider will one day take that decisive jump, and take it successfully.