Shadows of being : four philosophical essays /
This book is a study of the phenomena of shadows, meant in a broader sense as ""symbolic forms"". The shadow is a less real, ""surface"" replica of some more real form. From the Platonic point of view, empirical objects are ""shadows of ideas"&q...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2018.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | This book is a study of the phenomena of shadows, meant in a broader sense as ""symbolic forms"". The shadow is a less real, ""surface"" replica of some more real form. From the Platonic point of view, empirical objects are ""shadows of ideas"", while from the modern ""natural"" point of view, shadows are seen and conceived primarily as ""weaker"" replicas of bodies, which give evidence of their material reality. In the first three essays here, several topics from the Ancient Egypt and Greece to modern arts and sciences are considered, while in the fourth essay, the contemporary virtual realit. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 189 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-186) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781527525658 1527525651 |
