- Paperback: 111 pages
- Publisher: Dc_books (1994)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0919688411
- ISBN-13: 978-0919688414
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 14 x 0.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 154 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #964,660 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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...includes the thesis that the scientific conception of the universe ... is the most adavanced stage of religious evolution. -- Canadian Book Review Annual
...the highlight is ... 39 fragments from the pre-Socratics that Dudek astutely describes as reading "like a philosophical poem." -- The Montreal Gazette
If anyone could make the Ionian skeptics palatable to a generation raised on music and television, it's Louis Dudek. -- The Ottawa Citizen
...the highlight is ... 39 fragments from the pre-Socratics that Dudek astutely describes as reading "like a philosophical poem." -- The Montreal Gazette
If anyone could make the Ionian skeptics palatable to a generation raised on music and television, it's Louis Dudek. -- The Ottawa Citizen
Book Description
In The Birth of Reason Louis Dudek establishes the link between ancient pre-Socratic Atomism and modern quantum mechanics. In characteristically unencumbered terms, Dudek shows how this revolutionary philosophy, the invention of thinkers from Ioanian Greek trading cities, has been consistently misrepresented and resisted. Atomism nevertheless marks the transition from primitive mythological thinking (mythos) to the abstract, concept-based rationality (logos) that informs our modern approach to an ultimately unknowable reality.
This essay “is a kind of summation of myself — gnothi seautón.... I am neither a materialist nor a theist, really, nor am I altogether an agnostic. As I say in [the] essay, ‘the ultimate reality is unknowable,’ but I am sure that if it were knowable it would satisfy both the materialist and the theist, and much more that we cannot imagine.”
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THERE'S THE LONG LIST of early philosophers directly or indirectly connected with Miletus and its environs in Ionia - towns about 30 miles apart from one another. Read the first page
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THERE'S THE LONG LIST of early philosophers directly or indirectly connected with Miletus and its environs in Ionia - towns about 30 miles apart from one another. Read the first page
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