Les Langues De Sagesse Dans La Grece Et L'inde Anciennes: Ecole Pratique Des Hautes Etudes Science Historiques Et Philologiques III

In ancient Greece, Sophia reigned over the wisdom of riddle solvers as well as the science of first principles. To verify the hypothesis that this semantic variation obeys in fact a single rule, various poetic, mythological and philosophical texts concerning wisdom have been examined using structural Indo-European comparatism. Platos theory of forms can be deduced from ancient literary models such as Homer, Orpheus and the Indian poet prophets. The Sophists can no longer serve as a simple foil for philosophers seeking the essence of things, incarnating a legitimate sapiential option that recognizes the creative power of names. How else can we understand the symptoms of shared descent, such as the rival pretensions of mystery cults to the ultimate truth? Do not these rites combine poetic memory and immortality, constituting the historical relay that transmitted to Plato the outlines of his indemonstrable ontology?