Ancient beginnings of philosophy

"Write this preface makes me unclean conscience. As you work on the book, it was becoming more and more obvious that the idea of ​​her exceeds my capabilities, abilities, strength. In the course of the case, the volume of the necessary work only expressed, and its character became more complicated. I seemed to move back to school, and I need not to sum up, but again to sit for the Greek textbooks, to master the works of philologists-classics, to enter the course of historical and philosophical research, where - as expected in science - first, many different points Vision and entire concepts, secondly, each month discoveries are performed, requiring the prospective views. Meanwhile, neither in philosophy, nor in philology, and in the urgent time of school, alas, did not pass, lived with self-taught, and now - late. Having discovered in a smooth route on paper deep ravines on the ground, followed, apparently, leave the venture, but by that time it was already too far and it was too late.
In the book, therefore, there are no so many results for strength results mined in the author"s scientific studies, no matter how many turns in the formulation of the thematic question, a report on the experience of understanding. This experience is not important, successful or unsuccessful, - can be instructive precisely because from the very beginning it was not in the logic of the objective knowledge of the "subject", but in another understanding of understanding ... "(Anatoly Akhutin)