ИДЕНТИФИКАЦИЯ ФИЛОСОФА: УЛИТКА ИЛИ ЧЕРЕПАХА
SNAIL OR TURTLE: PHILOSOPHER’S IDENTITY
Author(s): Alexander DRIKKER, Eugene A. MakovetskySubject(s): Ancient World, Ancient Philosphy, 13th to 14th Centuries
Published by: Новосибирский государственный университет
Keywords: Zeno of Elea; Zeno's paradoxes; Achilles and the Tortoise; Gothic manuscripts; Gothic drôleries; Knight and Snail; philosopher’s destiny;
Summary/Abstract: The well-known Zeno's paradox about Achilles and the Tortoise is considered in the article in comparison to the analysis of a complex of medieval miniatures on which battle of the Knight with a Snail is represented. These images executed in a genre of Gothic grotesque were widespread in the margins of the Western European manuscripts of various contents especially at the end of the 13th – the first quarter of the 14th centuries. In our opinion, hopelessness of both agons (the Knight and the Snail, Achilles and the Tortoise) is a good illustration of some strategies of the relation of the philosopher to the truth.
Journal: ΣΧΟΛΗ. Философское антиковедение и классическая традиция
- Issue Year: XI/2017
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 220-235
- Page Count: 16
- Language: Russian