The first woman philosopher
love to the lyric wisdom
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https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_28_2Keywords:
Sappho, Presocratics, Orphism, Origins of PhilosophyAbstract
Sappho’s Tithonius poem can be considered a presocratic philosophical text? Some characteristics make us see those verses in its philosophical mood: 1) It portrays a situation of loving learning, love (philía) to knowledge; 2) It provides a general and essential statement on humanity: “No being that is human can escape old age.” 3) It makes a critique of the common sense’s idea of humanity, and explains why corruption of becoming is more decisive than mortality; 4) It provides an attitude and a practical wisdom disrupted by a fundamental question, as “What can I do?”, 5) There is a particular term (maybe a concept?) to lead and give unity of his philosophical school or system of thought.
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