Werner Jaeger Books

The new and revolutionizing ideas which the early Greek thinkers developed about the nature of the universe had a direct impact upon their conception of what they called, in a new sense, 'God' or 'the Divine.' The history of the philosophical theology of the Greeks is thus the history of their rational approach to the nature of reality itself in its successive phases. The late Professor Jaeger's classic book traces this development from the first intimations in Hesiod of the theology that was to come, through the heroic age of Greek cosmological thought, down to the time of the Sophists of the fifth century B.C.

Each volume was conceived as an independent unit, [Vol 1-Archaic Greece, The Mind of Athens; Vol 2-In Search of the Divine Centre; Vol 3-The Conflict of Cultural Ideas in the Age of Plato], taken together they constitute a monumental integrated survey of the whole Greek cultural tradition in the early & classical periods. A profound & timeless study of the foundation of Western Civilization.

Der durchsichtige Aufbau des Buches erlaubt eine meisterhafte Erörterung der 'natürlichen' Theologie und der Theogonie des Hesiod. Es verfolgt die Entwicklung der Gedanken griechischer Denker und endet mit der Untersuchung des theologischen Bewusstseins bei Demokrit und seinen Vorgängern sowie in der Sophistik. Die Analyse bietet tiefgehende Einblicke in die philosophischen Strömungen und deren Einfluss auf das Verständnis von Theologie in der Antike.

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