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Informationen zum Autor Pierre Hadot was Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France. His books include Philosophy as a Way of Life and Plotinus . Klappentext Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words ¿Phusis kruptesthai philei.¿ How the aphorism, usually translated as ¿Nature loves to hide,¿ has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of this engaging study by Pierre Hadot. Zusammenfassung Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words “Phusis kruptesthai philei.” How the aphorism, usually translated as “Nature loves to hide,” has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of this engaging study by Pierre Hadot. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Prologue at Ephesus: An Enigmatic Saying Part I: The Veil of Death 1. Heraclitus' Aphorism: "What Is Born Tends to Disappear" Part II: The Veil of Nature 2. From Phusis to Nature 3. Secrets of the Gods and Secrets of Nature Part III: "Nature Loves to Hide" 4. Heraclitus' Aphorism and Allegorical Exegesis 5. "Nature Loves to Wrap Herself Up": Mythical Forms and Corporeal Forms 6. Calypso! or "Imagination with the Flowing Veil" 7. The Genius of Paganism 8. The "Gods of Greece": Pagan Myths in a Christian World Part IV: Unveiling Nature's Secrets 9. Prometheus and Orpheus Part V: The Promethean Attitude: Unveiling Secrets through Technology 10. Mechanics and Magic from Antiquity to the Renaissance 11. Experimental Science and the Mechanization of Nature 12. Criticism of the Promethean Attitude Part VI: The Orphic Attitude: Unveiling Secrets through Discourse! Poetry! and Art 13. Physics as a Conjectural Science 14. Truth as the Daughter of Time 15. The Study of Nature as a Spiritual Exercise 16. Nature's Behavior: Thrifty! Joyful! or Spendthrift? 17. The Poetic Model 18. Aesthetic Perception and the Genesis of Forms Part VII: The Veil of Isis 19. Artemis and Isis Part VIII: From the Secret of Nature to the Mystery of Existence: Terror and Wonder 20. Isis Has No Veils 21. The Sacred Shudder 22. Nature as Sphinx 23. From the Secret of Nature to the Mystery of Being Conclusion Notes Index ...
