Emily Katz Anhalt
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780300217377
- eISBN:
- 9780300231762
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300217377.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer's Iliad, Euripides' Hecuba, and Sophocles' Ajax show that anger and vengeance destroy ...
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Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer's Iliad, Euripides' Hecuba, and Sophocles' Ajax show that anger and vengeance destroy perpetrators and victims alike. Composed before and during the ancient Greeks' groundbreaking movement away from autocracy toward more inclusive political participation, these stories offer guidelines for modern efforts to create and maintain civil societies. The book reveals how these three masterworks of classical Greek literature can teach us, as they taught the ancient Greeks, to recognize violent revenge as a marker of illogical thinking and poor leadership. These time-honored texts emphasize the costs of our dangerous penchant for glorifying violent rage and those who would indulge in it. By promoting compassion, rational thought, and debate, Greek myths help to arm us against the tyrants we might serve and the tyrants we might become.Less
Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer's Iliad, Euripides' Hecuba, and Sophocles' Ajax show that anger and vengeance destroy perpetrators and victims alike. Composed before and during the ancient Greeks' groundbreaking movement away from autocracy toward more inclusive political participation, these stories offer guidelines for modern efforts to create and maintain civil societies. The book reveals how these three masterworks of classical Greek literature can teach us, as they taught the ancient Greeks, to recognize violent revenge as a marker of illogical thinking and poor leadership. These time-honored texts emphasize the costs of our dangerous penchant for glorifying violent rage and those who would indulge in it. By promoting compassion, rational thought, and debate, Greek myths help to arm us against the tyrants we might serve and the tyrants we might become.
José L. Zalabardo
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198743941
- eISBN:
- 9780191803949
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198743941.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
Wittgenstein’s account of propositional representation imposes limits on what propositions can represent. This chapter explores Wittgenstein’s applications of this result. It considers first ...
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Wittgenstein’s account of propositional representation imposes limits on what propositions can represent. This chapter explores Wittgenstein’s applications of this result. It considers first Wittgenstein’s treatment of Russell’s paradox and the theory of types. Then it looks at his discussion of internal properties, relations, and concepts, concentrating on the claim that there cannot be propositions representing their instantiation. The chapter considers next whether the combinatorial families under which Wittgenstein would place the constituents of facts and propositions can be expected to correspond to the traditional ontological categories (individual, property, binary relation…). It looks next at Wittgenstein’s contention that illogical thought is impossible. The chapter returns then to the substance passage, arguing that the claim that the world has substance has to be understood as ascribing to the possibilities of combinations of objects into states of affairs, and the status of internal properties and relations.Less
Wittgenstein’s account of propositional representation imposes limits on what propositions can represent. This chapter explores Wittgenstein’s applications of this result. It considers first Wittgenstein’s treatment of Russell’s paradox and the theory of types. Then it looks at his discussion of internal properties, relations, and concepts, concentrating on the claim that there cannot be propositions representing their instantiation. The chapter considers next whether the combinatorial families under which Wittgenstein would place the constituents of facts and propositions can be expected to correspond to the traditional ontological categories (individual, property, binary relation…). It looks next at Wittgenstein’s contention that illogical thought is impossible. The chapter returns then to the substance passage, arguing that the claim that the world has substance has to be understood as ascribing to the possibilities of combinations of objects into states of affairs, and the status of internal properties and relations.
