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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.
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The Veil of Isis, Pierre Hadot
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- Title
- The Veil of Isis
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Pierre Hadot
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Released
- 2008
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN10
- 0674030494
- ISBN13
- 9780674030497
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, History, True Stories, Nature, Natural sciences, Philosophical Topics, Philosophy, Science, Opinion Journalism & Essays, Ancient History, History of Science, History of Philosophy, Man and Nature, Greek Philosophy, Philosophy of Nature, Natural Science Essays, Heraclitus of Ephesus, 540 BC-480 BC
- First published
- 2004
- Original title
- Le Voile d'Isis. Essai sur l'histoire de l'idée de nature
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- 4.7 out of 5
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- 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.