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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Otros Autores: Uršič, Marko, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2018.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 recurso electrónico
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
Bibliografía:Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas 179-186) e índice.
ISBN:9781527525658