Historical process and heavenly management: Hesiod’s message
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https://doi.org/10.15587/2313-8416.2016.69142Keywords:
Hesiod, myth of the races, heavenly management, Iron Age, historiosophy, regressAbstract
The article is devoted to the explication of the theological and axiological views of Hesiod, underlying its historiosophical model. The poet formulated the problem, which was the first philosophical question in Greek culture – inconsistency between existence and proper. Their theme was the starting point of Greek intellectual project, and Hesiod contributed to the fact that philosophy originated in his motherland
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