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The Demiurge in Ancient Thought
Author | : Carl Séan O'Brien |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2015-01-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107075368 |
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This book examines religious and 'scientific'/philosophical accounts of world-generation as represented by the figure of the Demiurge, or Craftsman-god.
Ten Gifts of the Demiurge
Author | : Emilie Kutash |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2013-10-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781472519818 |
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Proclus' commentary on Plato's "Timaeus" is perhaps the most important surviving Neoplatonic commentary. In it Proclus contemplates nature's mysterious origins and at the same time employs the deductive rigour required to address perennial philosophical questions. Nature, for him, is both divine and mathematically transparent. He renders theories of Time, Eternity, Providence, Evil, Soul and Intellect and constructs an elaborate ontology that includes mathematics and astronomy. He gives ample play to pagan theology too, frequently lapsing into the arcane language of the "Chaldaean Oracles". "Ten Gifts of the Demiurge" is an essential companion to this rich but complex and densely wrought text, providing an analysis of its arguments and showing that it, like the cosmos Proclus reveres, is a living coherent whole. The book provides aides to understanding Proclus' work within the complex background of Neoplatonic philosophy, familiarising the reader with the political context of the Athenian school, analysing Proclus' key terminology, and giving background to the philosophical arguments and ancient sciences upon which Proclus draws.Above all, it helps the reader appreciate the varicoloured light that Proclus sheds on the secrets of nature.
Studies on the Neoplatonist Hierocles
Author | : Ilsetraut Hadot |
Publsiher | : American Philosophical Society |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0871699419 |
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An updated & slightly abridged English translation of the author's previous work on the 5th century B.C. Neoplatonist Hierocles, published in various places. This work allows Hierocles' median position in the history of Neoplatonic philosophy, between Iamblichus & Syrianus-Proclus, to emerge. Contents: (I) Biographical Elements; (II) Hierocles' Ideas on the History of Platonic Philosophy; (III) Hierocles' Philosophical Ideas on Matter, the Demiurge, & the Soul; & (IV) Hierocles' Philosophical Ideas on Providence. Translated from the French.
Platou Journal n 17
Author | : Gabriele Cornelli |
Publsiher | : Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 2018-03-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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One Book The Whole Universe
Author | : Richard D. Mohr |
Publsiher | : Parmenides Publishing |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2010-05-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781930972612 |
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The much-anticipated anthology on Plato'sTimaeus-Plato's singular dialogue on the creation of the universe, the nature of the physical world, and the place of persons in the cosmos-examining all dimensions of one of the most important books in Western Civilization: its philosophy, cosmology, science, and ethics, its literary aspects and reception. Contributions come from leading scholars in their respective fields, including Sir Anthony Leggett, 2003 Nobel Laureate for Physics. Parts of or earlier versions of these papers were first presented at the Timaeus Conference, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in September of 2007.To this day, Plato's Timaeus grounds the form of ethical and political thinking called Natural Law-the view that there are norms in nature that provide the patterns for our actions and ground the objectivity of human values. Beyond the intellectual content of the dialogue's core, its literary frame is also the source of the myth of Atlantis, giving the West the concept of the "e;lost world."e;
The Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz
Author | : William Lane Craig |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 1980-06-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781349049936 |
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Aristotle and Other Platonists
Author | : Lloyd P. Gerson |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2017-12-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781501716966 |
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"Aristotle versus Plato. For a long time that is the angle from which the tale has been told, in textbooks on the history of philosophy and to university students. Aristotle's philosophy, so the story goes, was au fond in opposition to Plato's. But it was not always thus."—from the Introduction In a wide-ranging book likely to cause controversy, Lloyd P. Gerson sets out the case for the "harmony" of Platonism and Aristotelianism, the standard view in late antiquity. He aims to show that the twentieth-century view that Aristotle started out as a Platonist and ended up as an anti-Platonist is seriously flawed. Gerson examines the Neoplatonic commentators on Aristotle based on their principle of harmony. In considering ancient studies of Aristotle's Categories, Physics, De Anima, Metaphysics, and Nicomachean Ethics, the author shows how the principle of harmony allows us to understand numerous texts that otherwise appear intractable. Gerson also explains how these "esoteric" treatises can be seen not to conflict with the early "exoteric" and admittedly Platonic dialogues of Aristotle. Aristotle and Other Platonists concludes with an assessment of some of the philosophical results of acknowledging harmony.
Poikile Physis
Author | : Diego De Brasi,Francesco Fronterotta |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2022-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783110796858 |
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Biological literature of the Roman imperial period remains somehow ‘underestimated’. It is even quite difficult to speak of biological literature for this period at all: biology (apart from medicine) did not represent, indeed, a specific ‘subgenre’ of scientific literature. Nevertheless, writings as disparate as Philo of Alexandria’s Alexander, Plutarch’s De sollertia animalium or Bruta ratione uti, Aelian’s De Natura Animalium, Oppian’s Halieutika, Pseudo-Oppian’s Kynegetika, and Basil of Caeserea’s Homilies on the Creation engage with zoological, anatomic, or botanical questions. Poikile Physis examines how such writings appropriate, adapt, classify, re-elaborate and present biological knowledge which originated within the previous, mainly Aristotelian, tradition. It offers a holistic approach to these works by considering their reception of scientific material, their literary as well as rhetorical aspects, and their interaction with different socio-cultural conditions. The result of an interdisciplinary discussion among scholars of Greek studies, philosophy and history of science, the volume provides an initial analysis of forms and functions of biological literature in the imperial period.