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Paperback Before Philosophy Book

ISBN: 014020198X

ISBN13: 9780140201987

Before Philosophy

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It's a Revealing Examination Pre-Logical Thinking

Pre-Logical is probably a little extreme but certainly formal logic was lacking in mythopoetic explanations. There was a sense of cause and effect operating in the world but this was expressed through the operation of personalities (deities) rather than natural forces. There apparently was little understanding of contradiction. The main technique used to explain the operations of natural phenomena seems to be association,...

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Answers to so many questions

This book explains how utterly different ancients were from us in how they saw the world and themselves in it. And how - without assistance by unnatural applications of reason and science - we're precisely the same if allowed to be. It raises questions of how we can possibly save our natural world and truly believe in a spiritual reality if we and the natural world are subjected to modern thinking found to be so successful.Focusing...

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