Anaximander and the Architects: The Contributions of Egyptian and Greek Architectural Technologies to the Origins of Greek Philosoph (SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy) Review

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(More customer reviews)While I am no expert in ancient philosophy, I confess to having read over the years several survey books on the subject. Never before had I seen so many diagrams and illustrations in a book on this topic. What Anaximander and the Architects does is to present a case about the origins of Greek philosophy by walking the reader through the powerful images that shaped Anaximander's world and his philosophizing. The more one thinks about, the more original is Hahn's argument: while early Greek philosophy is almost always marked by the literary evidence for "rationalizing the cosmos," explaining the origins of the universe without recourse to myth, Hahn offers us an argument to understand "rationalizing" by evidence from "images" and "pictures." By this approach, Hahn exposes the philosophical imagination of the early Greek philosophers. This approach is really new, and it asks us to think again -- as do some studies in cognitive science --about the role that the imagination plays in the development of rationality.

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