Ebook: Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy
Author: Kojin Karatani, Joseph A. Murphy
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Language: English
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Kōjin Karatani questions the canonical glorification of philosophy and democracy in ancient Athens by placing Western philosophy's origins in Ionia, a set of Greek colonies located in present-day Turkey that practiced isonomia—a system based on non-rule and a lack of social divisions whereby equality is realized through individual freedom.
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