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Author | : Barbara Sattler |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-10-08 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1108477909 |
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This book explores the birth of the scientific understanding of motion in early Greek thought up to Aristotle.
Author | : Barbara M. Sattler |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 830 |
Release | : 2020-10-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1108802621 |
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This book examines the birth of the scientific understanding of motion. It investigates which logical tools and methodological principles had to be in place to give a consistent account of motion, and which mathematical notions were introduced to gain control over conceptual problems of motion. It shows how the idea of motion raised two fundamental problems in the 5th and 4th century BCE: bringing together being and non-being, and bringing together time and space. The first problem leads to the exclusion of motion from the realm of rational investigation in Parmenides, the second to Zeno's paradoxes of motion. Methodological and logical developments reacting to these puzzles are shown to be present implicitly in the atomists, and explicitly in Plato who also employs mathematical structures to make motion intelligible. With Aristotle we finally see the first outline of the fundamental framework with which we conceptualise motion today.
Author | : Francis MacDonald Cornford |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2013-12-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107635373 |
Download The Laws of Motion in Ancient Thought Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume contains the text of Francis Cornford's 1931 inaugural lecture upon becoming Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the University of Cambridge.
Author | : A. A. Long |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1999-06-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521446679 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A 1999 Companion to Greek philosophy, invaluable for new readers, and for specialists.
Author | : Aristotle |
Publisher | : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2021-11-14 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 3986772901 |
Download On the Heavens Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
On the Heavens Aristotle - On the Heavens is Aristotle's chief cosmological treatise: written in 350 BC it contains his astronomical theory and his ideas on the concrete workings of the terrestrial world. This work is significant as one of the defining pillars of the Aristotelian worldview, a school of philosophy that dominated intellectual thinking for almost two millennia. Similarly, this work and others by Aristotle were important seminal works by which much of scholasticism was derived.
Author | : Keimpe Algra |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2016-06-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004320873 |
Download Concepts of Space in Greek Thought Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Concepts of Space in Greek Thought studies ancient Greek theories of physical space and place, in particular those of the classical and Hellenistic period. These theories are explained primarily with reference to the general philosophical or methodological framework within which they took shape. Special attention is paid to the nature and status of the sources. Two introductory chapters deal with the interrelations between various concepts of space and with Greek spatial terminology (including case studies of the Eleatics, Democritus and Epicurus). The remaining chapters contain detailed studies on the theories of space of Plato, Aristotle, the early Peripatetics and the Stoics. The book is especially useful for historians of ancient physics, but may also be of interest to students of Aristotelian dialectic, ancient metaphysics, doxography, and medieval and early modern physics.
Author | : R. J. Hankinson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199246564 |
Download Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This work traces the history of ancient Greek thought about causation and explanation. It examines ways in which they dealt with questions about how and why things happen, about the constitution and structure of things, laws of nature, and more.
Author | : Liba Taub |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2020-01-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107092485 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Provides a broad framework for engaging with ideas relevant to ancient Greek and Roman science, medicine and technology.
Author | : Edward Jayne |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2017-12-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0761869670 |
Download An Archaeology of Disbelief Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An Archaeology of Disbelief traces the origin of secular philosophy to pre-Socratic Greek philosophers who proposed a physical universe without supernatural intervention. Some mentioned the Homeric gods, but others did not. Atomists and Sophists identified themselves as agnostics if not outright atheists, and in reaction Plato featured transcendent spiritual authority. However, Aristotle offered a physical cosmology justified by evidence from a variety of scientific fields. He also revisited many pre-Socratic assumptions by proposing that existence consists of mass in motion without temporal or spatial boundaries. In many ways his analysis anticipated Newton’s concept of gravity, Darwin’s concept of evolution, and Einstein’s concept of relativity. Aristotle’s follower Strato invented scientific experimentation. He also inspired the pursuit of science and advocated the rejection of all beliefs unconfirmed by science. Carneades in turn distorted Aristotelian logic to ridicule the god concept, and Lucretius proposed a grand secular cosmology in his epic De Rerum Natura. In the two dialogues, Academica and De Natura Deorum, Cicero provided a useful retrospective assessment of this entire movement. The Roman Empire and advent of Christianity effectively terminated Greek philosophy except for Platonism reinvented as stoicism. Widespread destruction of libraries eliminated most early secular texts, and the Inquisition played a major role in preventing secular inquiry. Aquinas later justified Aristotle in light of Christian doctrine, and secularism’s revival was postponed until the seventeenth century’s paradoxical reaction against his interpretation of Aristotle. Today it nevertheless remains possible to trace western civilization’s remarkable secular achievement to its initial breakthrough in ancient Greece. The purpose of this book is accordingly to trace the origin and development of its secular thought through close examination of texts that still exist today in light of Aristotle’s writings.
Author | : Richard Seaford |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2019-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108499554 |
Download The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and India Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explains for the first time the genesis and early form of both Indian and Greek philosophy, and their striking similarities.