We explore how philosophy was born in response to the oracular chaos of the sibyls, moving from ecstatic trance to the rational examination of logos. From pre-Socratic suspicion and Socratic irony to the sublimation of ecstasy in Plato, we discover how thought transformed sacred delirium into a conscious search for truth.
We explore how philosophy was born in response to the oracular chaos of the sibyls, moving from ecstatic trance to the rational examination of logos. From pre-Socratic suspicion and Socratic irony to the sublimation of ecstasy in Plato, we discover how thought transformed sacred delirium into a conscious search for truth.