Jeremy Gilkison

72%
Flag icon
All the same, the pre-Socratics’ answers to the first, Nietzsche suggested, already implied the second. It’s just that their approach took them in a sharply different direction from Socrates’s: one that put a premium on man’s place in the world, instead of above or apart from it, which to Plato and Aristotle was the consequence of his possessing reason.
The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
Rate this book
Clear rating
Open Preview