Creationism and its critics in antiquity (Record no. 58620)
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| fixed length control field | 04252nam a2200421 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 213 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Sedley, D. N. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Creationism and its critics in antiquity |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Berkeley : |
| Name of publisher | University of California Press, |
| Year of publication | 2007. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xvii, 269 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Sather classical lectures ; |
| Series statement | Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? Ancient Greeks and Romans famously disagreed on whether the cosmos was the product of design or accident. In this book, David Sedley examines this question and illuminates new historical perspectives on the pantheon of thinkers who laid the foundations of Western philosophy and science. Versions of what we call the "creationist" option were widely favored by the major thinkers of classical antiquity, including Plato, whose ideas on the subject prepared the ground for Aristotle's celebrated teleology. But Aristotle aligned himself with the anti-creationist lobby, whose most militant members--the atomists--sought to show how a world just like ours would form inevitably by sheer accident, given only the infinity of space and matter. This stimulating study explores seven major thinkers and philosophical movements enmeshed in the debate: Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, the atomists, Aristotle, and the Stoics. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Intelligent design (Teleology) |
| Topical Term | Philosophy, Ancient. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10676245 |
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