Fragile, Fragile Philosophy

Massimo Pistone

• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781035842544
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

This fragile, fragile philosophy unexpectedly developed an enormous power of conviction and direction. It invented individual rights, it founded our way of thinking, it created science in the third century B.C. in Alexandria, it invented democracy. From what characteristics does all this power, the fragile philosophy, derive? These ancestors of ours, the classical philosophers, had postulated three things, then forgotten. a) The word is not the thing, the sentence is not the fact, the language is not the world. Not even an image of them. b) Our thinking is groundless, because the initial concepts, let's say the axioms from which we start to think, are not based on anything, because they are precisely the first. c) Thought, rational discursive intellect, and language are the same, logos, one word indicates one and the other. Thought and language are the same thing.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• About the Author
• Dedication
• Copyright Information ©
• Acknowledgment
• Author’s Note
• Fragile, Fragile Philosophy
• Only One Exception: China
• Enigma?
• Our Thinking
• Parmenides of Elea, the Beginning
• The Truth, the Universe
• A Bud on an Ancient Plant
• But What if It Isn’t?
• Anamnesis?
• Logos and Universe
• History, with a Capital Letter
• Does the Individual Exist?
• The Logos of Alètheia
• The Fragile Fathers
• Gorgias and the Nothing
• Gorgias and the Art
• The Challenge of Chrysippos
• But Chrysippos Does More
• Wittgenstein Reinvents the Greats
• A Relativistic Leap
• Even Zeno Was Walking
• Idealists and Positivists
• No, Hegel, No
• The Greek Reason
• Still on the Greek Reason
• What I Can Imagine and What Not
• “Socrates Does Not Write”
• Antisthenes
• Space, Time, and Democritus
• Probability
• Majorana
• Einstein, the Warning of Mystery
• Now, What Do We Do with Philosophy?
• Modern Myths
• Bibliography