The thinker as artist
Subtitle: from Homer to Plato & Aristotle
By: George Anastaplo.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: Greek literature -- History and criticism.; Philosophy, Ancient.; Rhetoric, Ancient.
Description: In an attempt to subject representative texts of a dozen ancient authors to a more or less Socratic inquiry, the noted scholar George Anastaplo suggests in The Thinker as Artist how one might usefully read as well as enjoy such texts, which illustrate the thinking done by the greatest artists and how they "talk" among themselves across the centuries.

In doing so, he does not presume to repeat the many fine things said about these and like authors, but rather he discusses what he himself has noticed about them, text by text. Drawing upon a series of classical authors ranging from Homer and Sappho to Plato and Aristotle, Anastaplo examines issues relating to chance, art, nature, and divinity present in the artful works of philosophers and other thinkers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-390) and index.