The Origins Of Greek Thought

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• Origins of Greek Thought available on November 14 2023 from BiggerBooks for 9.25
  
• The Origins Of Greek Thought available on March 31 2017 from Indigo for 26.95
  
• ISBN bar code 9780801492938 ξ1 registered November 14 2023
  
• ISBN bar code 9780801492938 ξ2 registered March 31 2017
  
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The emergence of rational thought, Vernant claims, is closely linked to the advent of the open-air politics that characterized life in the Greek polis. Vernant points out that when the focus of Mycenaean society gave way to the agora, the change had profound social and cultural implications. Social experience could become the object of pragmatic thought for the Greeks, he writes, because in the city-state it lent itself to public debate. The decline of myth dates from the day the first sages brought human order under discussion and sought to define it. . . . Thus evolved a strictly political thought, separate from religion, with its own vocabulary, concepts, principles, and theoretical aims.

^ Vernant, Jean-Pierre (2015). Origins of Greek Thought, Cornell Univ Pr. BiggerBooks. ISBN 9780801492938 (revised Nov 2023)
^ The Origins Of Greek Thought Indigo. ISBN 9780801492938 (revised Mar 2017)