04252nam a2200421 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020003900112020003600151020002500187020002200212020002700234040002100261035002100282050002400303082001200327100001800339245008500357260005500442300002500497490003900522490005000561504005300611505156000664520111402224533015203338650003503490650002503525655002903550710001703579830004003596830005103636856012603687999001703813ebr10676245CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||070522s2007    caua    sb    001 0 eng d  z  2007021528  z9780520253643 (cloth : alk. paper)  z0520253647 (cloth : alk. paper)  z9780520260061 (pbk.)  z0520260066 (pbk.)  z9780520934368 (e-book)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)71160325214aBD581b.S377 2007eb04a2132221 aSedley, D. N.10aCreationism and its critics in antiquityh[electronic resource] /cDavid Sedley.  aBerkeley :bUniversity of California Press,c2007.  axvii, 269 p. :bill.1 aSather classical lectures ;vv. 661 aJoan Palevsky imprint in classical literature  aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.00tAcknowledgments --tPreface --g[ch]. 1.tAnaxagoras --g1. Thetpresocratic agenda --g2.tAnaxagoras's cosmology --g3. Thetpower of nous --g4.tSun and Moon --g5.tWorlds and seeds --g6.tNous as creator --g7.tScientific creationism --tAppendix : Anazagoras's theory of matter --g[ch]. 2.tEmpedocles --g1. Thetcosmic cycle --g2. Thetdouble zoogony --g3.tCreationist discourse --g4.tDesign and accident --tAppendix 1 : The double zoogony revisited --tAppendix 2 : The chronology of the cycle --tAppendix 3 : Where in the cycle are we? --tAppendix 4 : Lucretian testimony for Empedocles' zoogony --g[ch]. 3.tSocrates --g1.t1.tDiogenes of Apollonia --g2.tSocrates in Xenophon --g3.tSocrates in Plato's Phaedo --g4. Athistorical synthesis --g[ch]. 4.tPlato --g1. ThetPhaedo myth --g2.tIntroducing the Timaeus --g3. Antact of creation? --g4.tDivine craftsmanship --g5.tIs the world perfect? --g6. Thetorigin of species --g[ch]. 5. Thetatomists --g1.tDemocritus --g2. ThetEpicurean critique of creationism --g3. ThetEpicurean alternative to creationism --g4.tEpicurean infinity --g[ch]. 6.tAristotle --g1.tGod as paradigm --g2. Thetcraft analogy --g3.tNecessity --g4.tFortuitous outcomes --g5.tCosmic teleology --g6.tAristotle's Platonism --g[ch]. 7. Thetstoics --g1.tStoicism --g2. Atwindow on stoic theology --g3.tAppropriating Socrates --g4.tAppropriating Plato --g5.tWhose benefit? --tEpilogue : A Galenic perspective --tBibliography --tIndex locorum --tGeneral index.  aThe 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.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aIntelligent design (Teleology) 0aPhilosophy, Ancient. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc. 0aSather classical lectures ;vv. 66. 0aJoan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10676245zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c58620d58620