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Chapter VI. The Silence Beyond Names

Raoul Mortley, Bond University

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This is an electronic version of chapter VI, The Silence Beyond Names from the book:

Mortley, Raoul (1986) From Word to Silence, I. The rise and fall of logos. (Theophaneia Bd 30) Bonn: Hanstein, 1986.

Abstract

Chapter Contents: The early suspicions about discourse 110; silence in Greek tragedy 112; silence as pharmakon 112; the silence of the mysteries 113; Plato on the word 115; Aristotle on discourse and silence 117; Philo and the value of silence 11 8; the centrality of silence in the Gnostics 122; a development noted 124.

Suggested Citation

Raoul Mortley. "Chapter VI. The Silence Beyond Names" From Word to Silence, 1. The Rise and Fall of Logos (1986).
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/raoul_mortley/26



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