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The Thinker as Artist
George Anastaplo
其他書名
From Homer to Plato & Aristotle
出版Ohio University Press, 1997
主題Art / History / GeneralLiterary Collections / Ancient & ClassicalLiterary Criticism / Ancient & ClassicalPhilosophy / GeneralPhilosophy / AestheticsPhilosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
ISBN08214117649780821411766
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=B2VwAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In an attempt to subject representative texts of a dozen ancient authors to a more or less Socratic inquiry, the noted scholar George Anastaplo suggests in The Thinker as Artist how one might usefully read as well as enjoy such texts, which illustrate the thinking done by the greatest artists and how they "talk" among themselves across the centuries. In doing so, he does not presume to repeat the many fine things said about these and like authors, but rather he discusses what he himself has noticed about them, text by text.

Drawing upon a series of classical authors ranging from Homer and Sappho to Plato and Aristotle, Anastaplo examines issues relating to chance, art, nature, and divinity present in the artful works of philosophers and other thinkers.

As he has done in his earlier work, Anastaplo mines the great texts to help us discover who we are and what we should be. Some of the works used are familiar, while others were once better known than they are now. The approach to all of them is fresh and provocative, demonstrating the value of such texts in showing the reader what to look for and how to talk about matters that have always engaged thoughtful human beings.

These imaginative yet disciplined discussions of important texts of ancient Greek thought and of Raphael's The School of Athens should appeal to both the specialist and the general reader.