The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature by Pierre Hadot, Michael Chase

The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature

Pierre Hadot, Michael Chase

399 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history nature philosophy reflective medium-paced

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Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words "Phusis kruptesthai philei." How the aphorism, usually translated as "Nature loves to hide," has haunted Western culture ever since is the subje...

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