Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words 'Phusis kruptesthai philei.' How the aphorism, usually translated as 'Nature loves to hide,' has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of this engaging study by Pierre Hadot. Taking the allegorical figure of the veiled goddess Isis as a guide, and drawing on the wo...
Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words 'Phusis kruptesthai philei.' How the aphorism, usually translated as 'Nature loves to hide,' has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of this engaging study by Pierre Hadot. Taking the allegorical figure of the veiled goddess Isis as a guide, and drawing on the work of both the ancients and later thinkers such as Goethe, Rilke, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger, Hadot traces successive interpretations of Heraclitus' words. Over time, Hadot finds, 'Nature loves to hide' has meant that all that lives tends to die; that Nature wraps herself in myths; and (for Heidegger) that Being unveils as it veils itself. Meanwhile the pronouncement has been used to explain everything from the opacity of the natural world to our modern angst.
The occultation of nature will be perceived not as a resistance that must be conquered but as a mystery into which human beings can be gradually initiated. (查看原文)
A handy roadmap for Hermes' followers. For one thing, Hadot just shows how much more ancient modern science actually is than it conceives itself to be. The curious question remains as to whether Mathe...A handy roadmap for Hermes' followers. For one thing, Hadot just shows how much more ancient modern science actually is than it conceives itself to be. The curious question remains as to whether Mathematics counts as a Prometheus- or Orpheus-approach to the secrets of nature. (展开)
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2 有用 瓜 2019-03-22 04:38:18
A handy roadmap for Hermes' followers. For one thing, Hadot just shows how much more ancient modern science actually is than it conceives itself to be. The curious question remains as to whether Mathe... A handy roadmap for Hermes' followers. For one thing, Hadot just shows how much more ancient modern science actually is than it conceives itself to be. The curious question remains as to whether Mathematics counts as a Prometheus- or Orpheus-approach to the secrets of nature. (展开)
2 有用 Indigosalley 2022-01-07 16:43:35
救命Hadot为什么能逻辑如此清晰，英译本看起来都顺畅无比，直接close reading心旷神怡，不像德国某些😒
0 有用 Llewsniav 2015-12-21 15:18:33
英文版带着字典出乎意料的好读。
0 有用 ピビ子 2020-11-15 10:42:31
快来看||
1 有用 七团面巾纸 2017-04-06 10:20:54
很有趣！！！