Preface to the Second Edition This book was first published twenty years ago. It was my first treatise to be published—the first little fruit up to then of a long period of study and research. The research was concerned to clarify the differences between Greek philosophy and tradition and those in the West: differences that are not statically exhausted in the place of contemplation, but which determine the mode or practice of life, that is to say, that which we call culture. In writing the pages
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