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Presocratic Blues

Joel Bettridge

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Description:We now call them the Presocratics. Their writings come down to us in pieces: Heraclitus claimed, “You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go ever flowing on”; we have Zeno arguing that motion does not exist, an arrow needing to go halfway to the target before striking it, but needing to go half way of that half way first, and so on. In how they were right in the wrongest ways, and wrong in the rightest we hear our better thoughts; their fragments call to mind the blues: in their graves perhaps, these philosophers hear themselves in its songs, for their singers, too, glimpsed instances, like heartbreak, exhaustion, being broke, or drunk, or trying to hold onto a faith; in these Hellenistic remnants we hear the echoes of Blind Willie Johnson’s apologetics and Bessie Smith’s epistemology of love. Anaxagoras also sang on steps advising passersby that all objects contain elements of all other objects: the much bigger, for instance, has the small in it, but it has mostly huge. They, like us, were between religion and science—between the mysticism of the everyday and the shifting ground of understanding. They too were smitten and baffled by what could be seen and touched, and by events.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Presocratic Blues. To get started finding Presocratic Blues, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 68

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Chax Press

Release: 2009

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Description: We now call them the Presocratics. Their writings come down to us in pieces: Heraclitus claimed, “You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go ever flowing on”; we have Zeno arguing that motion does not exist, an arrow needing to go halfway to the target before striking it, but needing to go half way of that half way first, and so on. In how they were right in the wrongest ways, and wrong in the rightest we hear our better thoughts; their fragments call to mind the blues: in their graves perhaps, these philosophers hear themselves in its songs, for their singers, too, glimpsed instances, like heartbreak, exhaustion, being broke, or drunk, or trying to hold onto a faith; in these Hellenistic remnants we hear the echoes of Blind Willie Johnson’s apologetics and Bessie Smith’s epistemology of love. Anaxagoras also sang on steps advising passersby that all objects contain elements of all other objects: the much bigger, for instance, has the small in it, but it has mostly huge. They, like us, were between religion and science—between the mysticism of the everyday and the shifting ground of understanding. They too were smitten and baffled by what could be seen and touched, and by events.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Presocratic Blues. To get started finding Presocratic Blues, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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