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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Detienne, Marcel. Masters of truth in Archaic Greece. New York : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, 1996 (OCoLC)654887247 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marcel Detienne |
| ISBN: | 094229985X 9780942299854 |
| OCLC Number: | 33041807 |
| Description: | 231 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword / Pierre Vidal-Naquet -- Truth and Society -- The Memory of the Poet -- The Old Man of the Sea -- The Ambiguity of Speech -- The Process of Secularization -- A Choice between Aletheia and Apate -- Ambiguity and Contradiction. |
| Other Titles: | Maîtres de vérité dans la Grèce archaïque. |
| Responsibility: | Marcel Detienne ; foreword by Pierre Vidal-Naquet ; translated by Janet Lloyd. |
Abstract:
The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece traces the odyssey of "truth," Aletheia, from mythoreligious to philosophical thought in archaic Greece. Marcel Detienne's starting point is a simple observation: In archaic Greece, three figures - the diviner, the bard, and the king - all share the privilege of dispensing truth by virtue of the religious power of divine memory which provides them with knowledge, both oracular and inspired, of the present, past, and future. Beginning with this definition of the prerational meaning of truth, Detienne proceeds to elaborate the complex conceptual and historical contexts from which emerges the philosophical notion of truth still influencing Western philosophy today.
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- Truth.
- Philosophy, Ancient.
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- Filosofie.
- Griekse oudheid.
- Vérité.
- Philosophie antique.
- Alētheia (le mot grec).
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- Griechenland (Altertum)
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