No One's Ways Heller-Roazen Daniel
No One's Ways Heller-Roazen Daniel From Homer's Outis--"No One," or "Non-One," "No Man," or "Non-Man"--to "soul," "spirit," and the unnamable.Homer recounts how, trapped inside a monster's cave, with…
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No One's Ways Heller-Roazen Daniel
From Homer's Outis--"No One," or "Non-One," "No Man," or "Non-Man"--to "soul," "spirit," and the unnamable.Homer recounts how, trapped inside a monster's cave, with nothing but his wits to call upon, Ulysses once saved himself by twisting his name. He blinded his barbaric host and eluded him, becoming anonymous, for a while, even as he bore a name.Philosophers never forgot the lesson that the ancient hero taught. He called himself Outis: "No One," or "Non-One," "No Man," or "Non-Man." The ploy was a success.
Aristotle is the first to write of "indefinite" or "infinite" names, his example being From Aristotle and his commentators in Greek, Arabic, Latin, and more modern languages, from the masters of the medieval schools to Kant and his many successors, thinkers have exploited the possibilities of adding "non-" to the names of man.