The Presocratics and the Supernatural
Author | : Andrew Gregory |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Philosophy, Ancient |
ISBN | : 9781472555847 |
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Author | : Andrew Gregory |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Philosophy, Ancient |
ISBN | : 9781472555847 |
Author | : Andrew Gregory |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2013-10-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 147250416X |
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 | : Robin Waterfield |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2009-03-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019953909X |
These first philosophers paved the way for the work of Plato and Aristotle - and hence for the whole of Western thought. This is a unique and invaluable collection of the works of the Presocratics and the Sophists. Waterfield brings together the works of these early thinkers with brilliant new translation and exceptional commentary. This is the ideal anthology for the student of this increasingly appreciated field of classical philosophy.
Author | : André Laks |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691191484 |
When we talk about Presocratic philosophy, we are speaking about the origins of Greek philosophy and Western rationality itself. But what exactly does it mean to talk about “Presocratic philosophy” in the first place? How did early Greek thinkers come to be considered collectively as Presocratic philosophers? In this brief book, André Laks provides a history of the influential idea of Presocratic philosophy, tracing its historical and philosophical significance and consequences, from its ancient antecedents to its full crystallization in the modern period and its continuing effects today. Laks examines ancient Greek and Roman views about the birth of philosophy before turning to the eighteenth-century emergence of the term “Presocratics” and the debates about it that spanned the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He analyzes the intellectual circumstances that led to the idea of Presocratic philosophy—and what was and is at stake in the construction of the notion. The book closes by comparing two models of the history of philosophy—the phenomenological, represented by Hans-Georg Gadamer, and the rationalist, represented by Ernst Cassirer—and their implications for Presocratic philosophy, as well as other categories of philosophical history. Other figures discussed include Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Diogenes Laertius, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Nietzsche, Max Weber, and J.-P. Vernant. Challenging standard histories of Presocratic philosophy, the book calls for a reconsideration of the conventional story of early Greek philosophy and Western rationality.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2021-02-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004443355 |
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 | : Jonathan Barnes |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134965133 |
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 | : Andrew Gregory |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2016-02-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1472506251 |
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 |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2017-12-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107194970 |
Revisits central texts and themes in ancient philosophy in order to throw fresh light on some familiar passages and debates.
Author | : Alex Long |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2021-06-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1108832288 |
Re-examines the concept of immortality in ancient philosophy from the Presocratics to Augustine.
Author | : Andrew Gregory |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2020-10-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1350080985 |
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.