Pre-Socratics

Peter J. Leithart, August 23, 2006

Bacon says in a number of places that Western history is like a stream that carries everything light and airy on the surface (like Plato and Aristotle) while submerging all the heavy stuff (Hermes and the Pre-Socratics).

Intriguing that one of the "fathers of modernity" should make this Heideggerian kind of appeal past Socrates.