At the Feet of Philosophy: The Dialectics of the Two-Legged Thinker

IF 0.1 3区文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI:10.1353/phl.2022.0022

Ira Avneri

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Abstract:Focusing on Socrates and Oedipus, this article explores the role of imagery of legs and leg-associated activities in philosophical and dramatic representations of philosophers. Socrates's philosophizing begins with wandering, culminates in immobile standing, and tragically ends with his sitting with his legs planted in the ground. Oedipus's philosophizing involves tragic ignorance of his own legs: he has succeeded in solving the philosophical riddle about the legs of Man in general, yet fails to see his own feet and thereby to solve the riddle of his own identity.

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哲学的脚下：二脚思想家的辩证法

摘要:本文以苏格拉底和俄狄浦斯为研究对象，探讨了腿的意象和与腿相关的活动在哲学家的哲学和戏剧表现中的作用。苏格拉底的哲学思考始于漫游，以静止不动的站立而告终，以双腿埋在地上的坐着而悲剧收场。俄狄浦斯的哲学思考包含了对自己腿的悲剧性无知:他成功地解开了关于人类腿的哲学谜题，却没有看到自己的脚，因而也没有解开自己身份的谜题。

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