| Language and thought in early greek philosophy | |
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For Greece, the preliterate ages came to an end ca. 750 B.C. with the in- troduction of an alphabet whose letters were borrowed from Semitic neighbors, the Phoenicians. This event, Eric Havelock suggests, was "something like a thunder-clap in human history which our bias of familiarity has converted to the rustle of papers on a desk." For only with the introduc- tion of this powerful new technology for preserving human speech could Euro- pean man begin his journey from mythos (which for early Greeks was an oral utterance, and thus the telling of a story easily remembered) to logos, the reasoned analytical discourse which was destined to be the language of Western philosophy and science. The Greek alphabet "laid the basis for the destruction of the oral way of life and the oral modes of thought." |
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| Statement of Responsibility | |
| Author(s) | Robb, Kevin. - Personal Name |
| Edition | |
| Call Number | 182 Rob l |
| ISBN/ISSN | 0914417010 |
| Subject(s) | Greek philosophy |
| Classification | 182 |
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| GMD | |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | La Salle : Hegeler Institute |
| Publishing Year | 1983 |
| Publishing Place | Illinois |
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