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Cosmology and Biology in Ancient Philosophy

Author : Ricardo Salles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108872107
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Cosmology and Biology in Ancient Philosophy written by Ricardo Salles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In antiquity living beings are inextricably linked to the cosmos as a whole. Ancient biology and cosmology depend upon one another and therefore a complete understanding of one requires a full account of the other. This volume addresses many philosophical issues that arise from this double relation. Does the cosmos have a soul of its own? Why? Is either of these two disciplines more basic than the other, or are they at the same explanatory level? What is the relationship between living things and the cosmos as a whole? If the cosmos is an animate intelligent being, what is the nature of its thoughts and actions? How do these relate to our own thoughts and actions? Do they pose a threat to our autonomy as subjects and agents? And what is the place of zoogony in cosmogony? A distinguished international team of contributors provides original essays discussing these questions.

Cosmology and Biology in Ancient Philosophy

Author : Ricardo Salles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108836577
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Cosmology and Biology in Ancient Philosophy written by Ricardo Salles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores ancient biology and cosmology as two sciences that shed light on one another in their goals and methods.

Cosmos in the Ancient World

Author : Phillip Sidney Horky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108423647
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Cosmos in the Ancient World written by Phillip Sidney Horky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the concept of kosmos as order, arrangement, and ornament in ancient philosophy, literature, and aesthetics.

Platonic cosmology

Author : Richard D. Mohr
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004320644
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Platonic cosmology written by Richard D. Mohr and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology

Author : Dirk L. Couprie
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441981160
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology written by Dirk L. Couprie and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Miletus, about 550 B.C., together with our world-picture cosmology was born. This book tells the story. In Part One the reader is introduced in the archaic world-picture of a flat earth with the cupola of the celestial vault onto which the celestial bodies are attached. One of the subjects treated in that context is the riddle of the tilted celestial axis. This part also contains an extensive chapter on archaic astronomical instruments. Part Two shows how Anaximander (610-547 B.C.) blew up this archaic world-picture and replaced it by a new one that is essentially still ours. He taught that the celestial bodies orbit at different distances and that the earth floats unsupported in space. This makes him the founding father of cosmology. Part Three discusses topics that completed the new picture described by Anaximander. Special attention is paid to the confrontation between Anaxagoras and Aristotle on the question whether the earth is flat or spherical, and on the battle between Aristotle and Heraclides Ponticus on the question whether the universe is finite or infinite.

Ancient Greek Cosmogony

Author : Andrew Gregory
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1849667926
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Greek Cosmogony written by Andrew Gregory and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-01-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Greek Cosmogony is the first detailed, comprehensive account of ancient Greek theories of the origins of the world. It covers the period from 800 BC to 600 AD, beginning with myths concerning the creation of the world; the cosmogonies of all the major Greek and Roman thinkers; and the debate between Greek philosophical cosmogony and early Christian views. It argues that Greeks formulated many of the perennial problems of philosophical cosmogony and produced philosophically and scientifically interesting answers. The atomists argued that our world was one among many worlds, and came about by chance. Plato argued that it is unique, and the product of design. Empedocles and the Stoics, in quite different ways, argued that there was an unending cycle whereby the world is generated, destroyed and generated again. Aristotle on the other hand argued that there was no such thing as cosmogony, and the world has always existed. Reactions to, and developments of, these ideas are traced through Hellenistic philosophy and the debates in early Christianity on whether God created the world from nothing or from some pre-existing chaos. The book examines issues of the origins of life and the elements for the ancient Greeks, and how the cosmos will come to an end. It argues that there were several interesting debates between Greek philosophers on the fundamental principles of cosmogony, and that these debates were influential on the development of Greek philosophy and science.

Plato's Cosmology

Author : Plato
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872203860
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Plato's Cosmology written by Plato and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint of the Routledge edition of 1935.

When the Earth Was Flat

Author : Dirk L. Couprie
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319970526
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book When the Earth Was Flat written by Dirk L. Couprie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a sequel to Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology (Springer 2011). With the help of many pictures, the reader is introduced into the way of thinking of ancient believers in a flat earth. The first part offers new interpretations of several Presocratic cosmologists and a critical discussion of Aristotle’s proofs that the earth is spherical. The second part explains and discusses the ancient Chinese system called gai tian. The last chapter shows that, inadvertently, ancient arguments and ideas return in the curious modern flat earth cosmologies.

Cosmology in Antiquity

Author : Rosemary Wright
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134524110
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Cosmology in Antiquity written by Rosemary Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popularity of Stephen Hawking's work has put cosmology back in the public eye. The question of how the universe began, and why it hangs together, still puzzles scientists. Their puzzlement began two and a half thousand years ago when Greek philosophers first 'looked up at the sky and formed a theory of everything.' Though their solutions are little credited today, the questions remain fresh. The early Greek thinkers struggled to come to terms with and explain the totality of their surroundings; to identitify an original substance from which the universe was compounded; and to reconcile the presence of balance and proportion with the apparent disorder of the universe. Rosemary Wright examines the cosmological theories of the `natural philosophers' from Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes to Plato, the Stoics and the NeoPlatonists. The importance of Babylonian and Egyptian forerunners is emphasised. Cosmology in Antiquity is a comprehensive introduction to the cosmological thought of antiquity, the first such survey since Neugebauer's work of 1962.

Explaining the Cosmos

Author : Daniel W. Graham
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400827450
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Explaining the Cosmos written by Daniel W. Graham and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-20 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explaining the Cosmos is a major reinterpretation of Greek scientific thought before Socrates. Focusing on the scientific tradition of philosophy, Daniel Graham argues that Presocratic philosophy is not a mere patchwork of different schools and styles of thought. Rather, there is a discernible and unified Ionian tradition that dominates Presocratic debates. Graham rejects the common interpretation of the early Ionians as "material monists" and also the view of the later Ionians as desperately trying to save scientific philosophy from Parmenides' criticisms. In Graham's view, Parmenides plays a constructive role in shaping the scientific debates of the fifth century BC. Accordingly, the history of Presocratic philosophy can be seen not as a series of dialectical failures, but rather as a series of theoretical advances that led to empirical discoveries. Indeed, the Ionian tradition can be seen as the origin of the scientific conception of the world that we still hold today.

The Sciences in Greco-Roman Society

Author : Timothy David Barnes
Publisher : Academic Printing and Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Sciences in Greco-Roman Society written by Timothy David Barnes and published by Academic Printing and Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from a conference held in Toronto in April 1994, marking 150 years of the teaching of classics at the University of Toronto.

Cosmology

Author : Norriss S. Hetherington
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000938468
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Cosmology written by Norriss S. Hetherington and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of contributions examining cosmology from multiple perspectives. It presents articles on traditional Native American and Chinese cosmologies and traces the historical roots of western cosmology from Mesopotamia and pre-Socratic Greece to medieval cosmology.

Cosmos and Logos

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783110328790
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Cosmos and Logos written by Nicholas Rescher and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The six studies comprising this volume deal with some fundamental issues in early Greek thought: cosmic evaluation in Anaximander, the theory of opposites from the Pre-Socratics to Plato and Aristotle, thought experimentation in Pre-Socratic thought, the origins of Greek Scepticism among the Sophisists, the prehistory of "Buridan's Ass" speculation, and the role of esthesis in Aristotle's theory of science. In each case the early discussion seeks to show how certain ideas bore unexpected fruit during the subsequent development of philosophical thought.

Cosmology in Antiquity

Author : M. R. Wright
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 : 9780415121835
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Cosmology in Antiquity written by M. R. Wright and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1995 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together recent evidence on the topic

The Wisdom of Ancient Cosmology

Author : Wolfgang Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Wisdom of Ancient Cosmology written by Wolfgang Smith and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolfgang Smith, drawing upon a rare combination of expertise in mathematical physics, philosophy and traditional metaphysics, has written extensively on interdisciplinary problems relating to these respective domains. The present book has evolved out of a key ontological recognition consonant with time-honored metaphysical doctrine. In keeping with a realist view of cognitive sense perception, it rejects the Cartesian dichotomy of res extensa and res cogitans, and obviates what Whitehead referred to as the fallacy of bifurcation. In an earlier book (The Quantum Enigma, 1995) the author established two facts: first, that a consistent non-bifurcationist interpretation of physics can be formulated; and second, that this eliminates at one stroke the various forms of "quantum paradox" resulting from superposition and the so-called collapse of the state vector. The crucial ingredient of the new approach, mandated by the aforesaid recognition, is an ontological distinction between the physical domain, accessed via measurement, and the corporeal, accessed by way of cognitive sense perception. In the present book the author extends this metaphysically-based interpretation from fundamental physics to contemporary cosmology. With the aid of a few additional conceptions consonant, say, with the Thomistic doctrine-such as the concept of what he terms "the extrapolated universe," or the notion of "vertical causation" relating to intelligent design-he treats a broad range of issues from a unified metaphysical point of view. Not surprisingly, his conclusions tent to be radically at odds with the prevailing interpretations of scientific data, regardless of whether these are based upon naturalistic or scientistically theistic presuppositions. The author's approach may thus be characterized as the third alternative: the sole option, it appears, consistent with the Aristotelian and Platonist traditions, and with the wisdom of Christianity, as delineated especially in the Patristic writings.

The Founders of Western Thought – The Presocratics

Author : Constantine J. Vamvacas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402097913
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Founders of Western Thought – The Presocratics written by Constantine J. Vamvacas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-05-28 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There can be little doubt that the Greek tradition of philosophical criticism had its main source in Ionia. . . It thus leads the tradition which created the rational or scienti?c attitude, and with it our Western civilization, the only civilization, which is based upon science (though, of course, not upon science alone). Karl Popper, Back to the Presocratics Harvard University physicist and historian of Science, Gerald Holton, coined the term “Ionian Enchantment”, an expression that links the idea back in the 6th c- tury B. C. to the ancient Ionians along the eastern Aegean coast, while capturing its fascination. Approximately within a seventy- ve year period (600–525 B. C. ) -a split second in the history of humanity- the three Milesian thinkers, Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes, without plain evidence, but with an unequalled power of critical abstraction and intuition, had achieved a true intellectual re- lution; they founded and bequeathed to future generations a new, unprecedented way of theorizing the world; it could be summarized in four statements: beneath the apparent disorder and multiplicity of the cosmos, there exists order, unity and stability; unity derives from the fundamental primary substratum from which the cosmos originated; this, and, consequently, the cosmic reality, is one, and is based not on supernatural, but on physical causes; they are such that man can - vestigate them rationally. These four statements are neither self-evident nor se- explanatory.

Eureka! (Icon Science)

Author : Andrew Gregory
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 1785781928
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Eureka! (Icon Science) written by Andrew Gregory and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicine, anatomy, astronomy, mathematics and cosmology, science began with the Greeks, and Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes and Hippocrates were amongst its stars. That man ever managed to develop a 'scientific' attitude to the natural world at all is one of the true wonders of human thought. Eureka! shows how, free from intellectual and religious dogma, these early thinkers rejected myths and capricious gods and, in distinguishing between the natural and supernatural, effectively discovered nature. Andrew Gregory, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London, unravels the genesis of science in this fascinating exploration of the origins of Western civilisation, and our desire for a rational, legitimating system of the world.