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Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 01:25:00 -0700 (MST)
From: KOPFF E CHRISTIAN <kopff@spot.colorado.edu>
To: classics@u.washington.edu
Subject: Verwundern und Wissenschaft: WAS: Crisis cui bono?
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"Die griechisch-ro"mische Kultur in ihrem Wesen und allen A"usserungen
ihres Lebens...ist eine Einheit, mag sie sich auch an ihrem Anfang und
ihrem Ende nicht scharf abgrenzen lassen. Die Aufgabe der Philologie ist,
jenes vergangene Leben durch die Kraft der Wissenschaft wieder lebendig
zu machen....Auch hier wie in aller Wissenschaft,- griechisch zu reden,
in aller Philosophie--, ist das Verwundern u"ber das Unverstandene der
Anfang; das reine beglu"ckende Anschauen des in seiner Wahrheit und
Scho"nheit Verstandenen ist das Ziel. Weil das Leben, um dessen
Versta"ndnis wir ringen, eine Einheit ist, ist unsere Wissenschaft eine
Einheit."  U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Geschichte der Philologie, S.1
"Graeco-Roman civilization in its essence and in every facet of its
existence...is a unity, though we are unable to state precisely when it
began and ended; and the task of scholarship is to bring that dead world
to life by the power of science....In this as in every department of
knowledge - or to put it in the Greek way, in all _philosophy_- a feeling
of wonder in the presence of something we do not understand is the
starting-point, the goal was pure, beatific contemplation of something we
have come to understand in all its truth and beauty."
Alan Harris, translator, History of Classical Scholarship, p.1.
I am posting this because of the mention of wonder, although the hint of
Keats in the penultimate sentence is worth noting.
Christian Kopff
University of Colorado, Boulder
kopff@spot.colorado.edu


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