The Origins of Philosophy Frances A. Shuster based on a multi-institutional collaboration

based on a multi-institutional collaboration between the New School for Social Research and five major New York City museums

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The Origins of Philosophy Frances A. Shuster based on a multi-institutional collaborationDr. Drew A. Hyland traces the origins of philosophy from its earliest roots in Babylonian and Homeric Hesiodic mythology to its flowering in the Pre Socratic imagination. Using selections from the "Epic of Gilgamesh", Hesiod, Homer, Pythagoras, Zeno, Plato, and Socrates, to name but a few, Dr. Hyland argues against what he calls the 'historical approach' to the origin of philosophy. In Hyland's view the differentiation of the human self from notions