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'A brave attempt to look at the world and to decide what an intelligent man should think about it' Sunday Times Two years after The Collector had brought him international recognition and a year before he published The Magus, John Fowles set out his ideas on life in The Aristos. The chief inspiration behind them was the fifth century BC philosopher Heraclitus. In the world he posited of constant and chaotic flux the supreme good was the Aristos, 'of a person or thing, the best or most excellent its kind'.'What I was really trying to define was an ideal of human freedom (the Aristos) in an unfree world,' wrote Fowles in 1965. He called a materialistic and over-conforming culture to reckoning with his views on a myriad of subjects - pleasure and pain, beauty and ugliness, Christianity, humanism, existentialism, socialismProduct Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139780099755319
eBay Product ID (ePID)96218984
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Aristos
AuthorJohn Fowles
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicPopular Philosophy
Publication Year2001
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJohn Fowles
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom