A Place in History

Alicia Juarrero

Chapter Chapter 2 in Modes of Explanation, 2014, pp 17-23 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In “From modern roots to post-modern rhizomes” (Juarrero, 1993), I explored the alleged transition from mythology to philosophy. Supposedly, what changed with the appearance of pre-Socratic philosophy in the sixth century BC was the logic of explanation deployed to account for natural phenomena. Despite philosophy’s claim to have established a different explanatory logic, I argued in that work that there is nevertheless a unifying thread that did not change from mythology to philosophy: the belief that explanation really explains only when it grounds that which is being explained in a non-phenomenal or non-sensory—call it divine—origin, a source that is also universal, atemporal, and acontextual. The Greek miracle, I claimed, was in fact therefore a “miracle manqué.”

Keywords: Explanatory Logic; Major Premise; Deductive Inference; Divine Revelation; Natural Phenom (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137403865_2

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