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Abstract
george Allan / dickinson college eorge santayana begins Scepticism and Animal Faith with these words: "A philosopher is compelled to follow the maxim of epic poets and to plunge in medias res. The origin of things, if things have an origin, cannot be revealed to me, if revealed at all, until i have travelled very far from it, and many revolutions of the sun must precede my first dawn."1 santayana has homer in mind, who begins the Iliad in medias res: "rage-goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles / . . . / begin, muse, when the two first broke and clashed, / Agamemnon, lord of men and brilliant Achilles."2 There we are on page one, already ten years into the siege of Troy, Achilles all in a huff because the king has commandeered his girl friend, the success of the whole military campaign suddenly at risk. it will be many verses later before we learn the back story: menelaus's marriage to helen, her abduction by Paris, the sacrifice of iphigenia, and the deployment of the Achaean army on the beach beneath the Trojan walls. heeding santayana's application of homer's maxim to philosophic discourse, i will begin
Journal
American Journal of Theology & Philosophy – University of Illinois Press
Published: Feb 7, 2015