Tämä sivusto käyttää evästeitä palvelujen toimittamiseen, toiminnan parantamiseen, analytiikkaan ja (jos et ole kirjautunut sisään) mainostamiseen. Käyttämällä LibraryThingiä ilmaiset, että olet lukenut ja ymmärtänyt käyttöehdot ja yksityisyydensuojakäytännöt. Sivujen ja palveluiden käytön tulee olla näiden ehtojen ja käytäntöjen mukaista.
"For more than two thousand years, philosophers and theologians have wrestled with the irreconcilable opposition between Greek rationality (Athens) and biblical revelation (Jerusalem). In Athens and Jersusalem, Lev Shestov -- an inspiration for the French existentialists and the foremost interlocutor of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Martin Buber during the interwar years -- makes the gripping confrontation between these symbolic poles of ancient wisdom his philosophical testament, an argumentative and stylistic tour de force. Although the Russian-born Shestov is little known in the Anglophone world today, his writings influenced many twentieth-century European thinkers, such as Albert Camus, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Czesaw Miosz, and Joseph Brodsky. Athens and Jerusalem is Shestov's final, groundbreaking work on the philosophy of religion from an existential perspective. This new, annotated edition of Bernard Martin's classic translation adds references to the cited works as well as glosses of passages from the original Greek, Latin, German, and French. Athens and Jerusalem is Shestov at his most profound and most eloquent and is the clearest expression of his thought that shaped the evolution of continental philosophy and European literature in the twentieth century. "--… (lisätietoja)
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"The greatest good of man is to discourse daily about virtue." Plato, Apology, 38A
"Whatsoever is not of faith is sin." St. Paul, Romans, 14:23.
"Necessity does not allow itself to be persuaded." Aristotle, Metaphysics, 1015a, 32.
"The beginning of philosophy is the recognition f its own powerlessness and of the impossibility of fighting against necessity." Epictetus, Dissertation, II, ii.
"Happiness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself." Spinoza, Ethics, V, 42.
"Ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil." Genesis, III, 5.
"If you wish to subject everything to yourself, subject yourself to reason." Seneca.
"...all these things i will give thee, if you wilt fall down and worship me...Get the hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." Matthew, IV, 9-10.
"The ancient and blessed wise men who were better than we and lived nearer to the gods." Plato, Philebus.
"A great and final struggle awaits souls." Plotinus, Enneads, I, 6,7.
Omistuskirjoitus
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To Nancy, Rachel and Joseph Martin
Ensimmäiset sanat
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We live surrounded by an endless multitude of mysteries.
Sitaatit
Viimeiset sanat
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The kingdom of God, as it is written is attained through violence.
"For more than two thousand years, philosophers and theologians have wrestled with the irreconcilable opposition between Greek rationality (Athens) and biblical revelation (Jerusalem). In Athens and Jersusalem, Lev Shestov -- an inspiration for the French existentialists and the foremost interlocutor of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Martin Buber during the interwar years -- makes the gripping confrontation between these symbolic poles of ancient wisdom his philosophical testament, an argumentative and stylistic tour de force. Although the Russian-born Shestov is little known in the Anglophone world today, his writings influenced many twentieth-century European thinkers, such as Albert Camus, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Czesaw Miosz, and Joseph Brodsky. Athens and Jerusalem is Shestov's final, groundbreaking work on the philosophy of religion from an existential perspective. This new, annotated edition of Bernard Martin's classic translation adds references to the cited works as well as glosses of passages from the original Greek, Latin, German, and French. Athens and Jerusalem is Shestov at his most profound and most eloquent and is the clearest expression of his thought that shaped the evolution of continental philosophy and European literature in the twentieth century. "--