Isonomia and the origins of philosophy

書誌事項

Isonomia and the origins of philosophy

Kōjin Karatani ; translated by Joseph A. Murphy

Duke University Press, 2017

  • pbk

タイトル別名

Tetsugaku no kigen

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-158) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

In Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy-published originally in Japanese and now available in four languages-Kojin Karatani questions the idealization of ancient Athens as the source of philosophy and democracy by placing the origins instead in Ionia, a set of Greek colonies located in present-day Turkey. Contrasting Athenian democracy with Ionian isonomia-a system based on non-rule and a lack of social divisions whereby equality is realized through the freedom to immigrate-Karatani shows how early Greek thinkers from Heraclitus to Pythagoras were inseparably linked to the isonomia of their Ionian origins, not democracy. He finds in isonomia a model for how an egalitarian society not driven by class antagonism might be put into practice, and resituates Socrates's work and that of his intellectual heirs as the last philosophical attempts to practice isonomia's utopic potentials. Karatani subtly interrogates the democratic commitments of Western philosophy from within and argues that the key to transcending their contradictions lies not in Athenian democracy, with its echoes of imperialism, slavery, and exclusion, but in the openness of isonomia.

目次

Translator's Note vii Map viii Author's Preface to the Japanese Edition ix Introduction Universal Religion 1 Ethical Prophets 5 Exemplary Prophets 7 1. Ionian Society and Thought Athens and Ionia 11 Isonomia and Democracy 14 Athenian Democracy 17 State and Democracy 20 Colonization and Isonomia 22 Iceland and North America 26 Isonomia and Council 31 2, The Background of Ionian Natural Philosophy Natural Philosophy and Ethics 35 Hippocrates 39 Herodotus 42 Homer 46 Hesiod 51 3. The Essential Points of Ionian Natural Philosophy The Critique of Religion 56 Self-Moving Matter 58 Poiesis and Becoming 62 4. Post-Ionian Thought Pythagoras 68 Heraclitus 80 Parmenides 87 Post-Eliatics 96 5. Socrates and Empire The Athenian Empire and Democracy 103 Sophists and Rule by Rhetoric 107 The Trial of Socrates 110 The Riddle of Socrates 114 Daimon 118 The Socratic Method 121 Plato and Pythagoras 125 The Philosopher-King 127 Isonomia and the Philosopher-King 130 Appendix. From Structure of World History to Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy 135 Timeline of the Ancient World 141 Notes 143 Bibliography 155 Index 159

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB26670382
  • ISBN
    • 9780822369134
  • LCCN
    2017004990
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 原本言語コード
    jpn
  • 出版地
    Durham
  • ページ数/冊数
    165 p.
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
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