{"product_id":"2940015117493","title":"Homer \u0026 Classical Philosophy","description":"HOMER AND CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(_Inaugural Address delivered at Bâle University, 28th of May 1869._)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the present day no clear and consistent opinion seems to be held\u003cbr\u003eregarding Classical Philology. We are conscious of this in the circles\u003cbr\u003eof the learned just as much as among the followers of that science\u003cbr\u003eitself. The cause of this lies in its many-sided character, in the lack\u003cbr\u003eof an abstract unity, and in the inorganic aggregation of heterogeneous\u003cbr\u003escientific activities which are connected with one another only by the\u003cbr\u003ename \"Philology.\" It must be freely admitted that philology is to some\u003cbr\u003eextent borrowed from several other sciences, and is mixed together like\u003cbr\u003ea magic potion from the most outlandish liquors, ores, and bones. It may\u003cbr\u003eeven be added that it likewise conceals within itself an artistic\u003cbr\u003eelement, one which, on æsthetic and ethical grounds, may be called\u003cbr\u003eimperatival--an element that acts in opposition to its purely scientific\u003cbr\u003ebehaviour. Philology is composed of history just as much as of natural\u003cbr\u003escience or æsthetics: history, in so far as it endeavours to comprehend\u003cbr\u003ethe manifestations of the individualities of peoples in ever new\u003cbr\u003eimages, and the prevailing law in the disappearance of phenomena;\u003cbr\u003enatural science, in so far as it strives to fathom the deepest instinct\u003cbr\u003eof man, that of speech; æsthetics, finally, because from various\u003cbr\u003eantiquities at our disposal it endeavours to pick out the so-called\u003cbr\u003e\"classical\" antiquity, with the view and pretension of excavating the\u003cbr\u003eideal world buried under it, and to hold up to the present the mirror of\u003cbr\u003ethe classical and everlasting standards. That these wholly different\u003cbr\u003escientific and æsthetico-ethical impulses have been associated under a\u003cbr\u003ecommon name, a kind of sham monarchy, is shown especially by the fact\u003cbr\u003ethat philology at every period from its origin onwards was at the same\u003cbr\u003etime pedagogical. From the standpoint of the pedagogue, a choice was\u003cbr\u003eoffered of those elements which were of the greatest educational value;\u003cbr\u003eand thus that science, or at least that scientific aim, which we call\u003cbr\u003ephilology, gradually developed out of the practical calling originated\u003cbr\u003eby the exigencies of that science itself.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47161837355248,"sku":"2940015117493","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015117493","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}