Philosophy of the Sea

The fundamental work of Gunter Scholz "Philosophy of the Sea" (2016) examines man through the history of his interaction with the sea. The concept of the sea allows the author to trace the mechanisms of reflection—from the ancient Greek beginnings of philosophy to the critique of geopolitical theories of the 20th century. Man is a terrestrial animal, the sea is its mirror. The book is structured like a sea cruise. The reader travels along the current of European time, stopping at key points in history that have forever changed the relationship between man and the sea: Miletus and Ephesus, Atlantis, Bensalem, Taprobane, and Oceania, the birth of natural law in the dispute over the freedom of the seas, freedom and humanity in mastering the sea, the sublimity of the sea, the beginning and end of the history of progress.