The Presocratics And The Supernatural

Author : Andrew Gregory
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472504151
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Presocratics and the Supernatural written by Andrew Gregory and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between magic, philosophy and the investigation of nature in presocratic Greece. Did the presocratic thinkers, often praised for their rejection of the supernatural, still believe in gods and the divine and the efficacy of magical practices? Did they use animism, astrology, numerology and mysticism in their explanations of the world? This book analyses the evidence in detail and argues that we need to look at each of these beliefs in context.

Author : Andrew Gregory
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 147250416X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Presocratics and the Supernatural written by Andrew Gregory and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between magic, philosophy and the investigation of nature in presocratic Greece. Did the presocratic thinkers, often praised for their rejection of the supernatural, still believe in gods and the divine and the efficacy of magical practices? Did they use animism, astrology, numerology and mysticism in their explanations of the world? This book analyses the evidence in detail and argues that we need to look at each of these beliefs in context.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004443355
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought explores both explicit and hidden influences of Presocratic (6-4th c. BCE) early scientific concepts, such as nature, elements, principles, soul, organization, causation, purpose, and cosmos in Platonic, Aristotelian, and Hippocratic philosophy

Author : Andrew Gregory
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350080985
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Greek Philosophies of Nature written by Andrew Gregory and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the philosophies of nature of the early Greek thinkers and argues that a significant and thoroughgoing shift is required in our understanding of them. In contrast with the natural world of the earliest Greek literature, often the result of arbitrary divine causation, in the work of early Ionian philosophers we see the idea of a cosmos: ordered worlds where there is complete regularity. How was this order generated and maintained and what underpinned those regularities? What analogies or models were used for the order of the cosmos? What did they think about causation and explanatory structure? How did they frame natural laws? Andrew Gregory draws on recent work on mechanistic philosophy and its history, on the historiography of the relation of science to art, religion and magic, and on the fragments and doxography of the early Greek thinkers to argue that there has been a tendency to overestimate the extent to which these early Greek philosophies of nature can be described as 'mechanistic'. We have underestimated how far they were committed to other modes of explanation and ontologies, and we have underestimated, underappreciated and indeed underexplored how plausible and good these philosophies would have been in context.

Author : Chelsea C. Harry
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031396308
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Contributions of Women in the History of Philosophy, Science, and Literature, Throughout Time written by Chelsea C. Harry and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores contributions by some of the most influential women in the history of philosophy, science, and literature. Ranging from Sappho and Sophie Germain to Stebbing and Evelyn Fox Keller, this work ultimately demonstrates the impact these non-canonical, sometimes unknown or hidden, sources had, or may have had, on the recognized male leaders in their fields, from Aristotle to Pascal, Kant, Whitehead, and Russell. Chapters reflect philosophical pluralism, both analytic and continental themes, and cover figures reaching across the entire history of ideas in the West, from pre-historic times to the twentieth century. Anyone interested in coming to know or in preparing to teach women in the history of philosophy, science, and literature will appreciate this collection and its myriad insights into the still unrecognized voices of non-canonical sources across these disciplines.

Author : Andrew Gregory
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472506251
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anaximander written by Andrew Gregory and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anaximander, the sixth-century BCE philosopher of Miletus, is often credited as being the instigator of both science and philosophy. The first recorded philosopher to posit the idea of the boundless cosmos, he was also the first to attempt to explain the origins of the world and humankind in rational terms. Anaximander's philosophy encompasses theories of justice, cosmogony, geometry, cosmology, zoology and meteorology. Anaximander: A Re-assessment draws together these wide-ranging threads into a single, coherent picture of the man, his worldview and his legacy to the history of thought. Arguing that Anaximander's statements are both apodeictic and based on observation of the world around him, Andrew Gregory examines how Anaximander's theories can all be construed in such a way that they are consistent with and supportive of each other. This includes the tenet that the philosophical elements of Anaximander's thought (his account of the apeiron, the extant fragment) can be harmonised to support his views on the natural world. The work further explores how these theories relate to early Greek thought and in particular conceptions of theogony and meterology in Hesiod and Homer.

Author : Verity Harte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107194970
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rereading Ancient Philosophy written by Verity Harte and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisits central texts and themes in ancient philosophy in order to throw fresh light on some familiar passages and debates.

Author : Jessica Elbert Decker
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438488815
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Otherwise Than the Binary written by Jessica Elbert Decker and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Otherwise Than the Binary approaches canonical texts and concepts in Ancient Greek philosophy and culture that have traditionally been understood as examples of binary thinking, particularly concerning sexual difference. In contrast to such patriarchal logic, the essays within this volume explore how many of these seemingly strict binaries in ancient culture and thought were far more permeable and philosophically nuanced. Each contribution asks if there are ways of thinking of antiquity differently—namely, to examine canonical works through a lens that expounds and even celebrates philosophies of difference so as to discover instances where authors of antiquity valorize and uphold the necessity of what has been seen as feminine, foreign, and/or irrational. As contemporary thinkers turn toward new ways of reading antiquity, these selected studies will inspire other readings of ancient texts through new feminist methodologies and critical vantage points. When examining the philosophers and notable figures of antiquity alongside their overt patriarchal and masculinist agendas, readers are invited to rethink their current biases while also questioning how particular ideas and texts are received and read.

Author : Jonathan Barnes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134965133
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Presocratic Philosophers written by Jonathan Barnes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Presocratics were the founding fathers of the Western philosophical tradition, and the first masters of rational thought. This volume provides a comprehensive and precise exposition of their arguments, and offers a rigorous assessment of their contribution to philosophical thought.

Author : Alex Long
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108832288
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immortality in Ancient Philosophy written by Alex Long and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-examines the concept of immortality in ancient philosophy from the Presocratics to Augustine.