How the Worlds Became Philosophy & the Oldest Stories (Hardcover)
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The ancestors of us told many stories about the world, addressing topics that we now consider philosophical or scientific in imaginative ways. Among the oldest myths are those about how the First Thing sprang from Nothing and progressively became "the ten thousand things," including powers that are greater and last longer than those of mortals, which are frequently represented by the movement of celestial bodies. Such imaginative stories or myths mirror modern cosmological ideas in some respects, but in their original sense they were transforming resources for humane living, providing means to motivate our souls. "The lover of myth," as Aristotle put it, "is in a way a lover of wisdom, for myth is composed of wonders." Let us thus approach the stories in this collection as such lovers of wisdom, keeping a keen yet sympathetic eye out for their wonders, focused on revealing new insights into our origins, as well as those of all the creatures with whom we share the world.
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