'Philosophy Before the Greeks: The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia' - Marc Van De Mieroop. Princeton University Press, October 2015.
Marc Van De Mieroop’s book is an exploration of how the Babylonians understood and processed their reality in the 1st and 2ndmillennia BCE, long before the Greeks developed the apparatus of logical thought which we now associate with philosophy in the 5th century BCE. Van De Mieroop chooses to call the Babylonian understanding of reality, which...
Published on May 21, 2016 08:16