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050 1 4 _aBD581
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100 1 _aSedley, D. N.
245 1 0 _aCreationism and its critics in antiquity
_h[electronic resource] /
_cDavid Sedley.
260 _aBerkeley :
_bUniversity of California Press,
_c2007.
300 _axvii, 269 p. :
_bill.
490 1 _aSather classical lectures ;
_vv. 66
490 1 _aJoan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 0 _tAcknowledgments --
_tPreface --
_g[ch]. 1.
_tAnaxagoras --
_g1. The
_tpresocratic agenda --
_g2.
_tAnaxagoras's cosmology --
_g3. The
_tpower 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. The
_tcosmic cycle --
_g2. The
_tdouble 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. A
_thistorical synthesis --
_g[ch]. 4.
_tPlato --
_g1. The
_tPhaedo myth --
_g2.
_tIntroducing the Timaeus --
_g3. An
_tact of creation? --
_g4.
_tDivine craftsmanship --
_g5.
_tIs the world perfect? --
_g6. The
_torigin of species --
_g[ch]. 5. The
_tatomists --
_g1.
_tDemocritus --
_g2. The
_tEpicurean critique of creationism --
_g3. The
_tEpicurean alternative to creationism --
_g4.
_tEpicurean infinity --
_g[ch]. 6.
_tAristotle --
_g1.
_tGod as paradigm --
_g2. The
_tcraft analogy --
_g3.
_tNecessity --
_g4.
_tFortuitous outcomes --
_g5.
_tCosmic teleology --
_g6.
_tAristotle's Platonism --
_g[ch]. 7. The
_tstoics --
_g1.
_tStoicism --
_g2. A
_twindow on stoic theology --
_g3.
_tAppropriating Socrates --
_g4.
_tAppropriating Plato --
_g5.
_tWhose benefit? --
_tEpilogue : A Galenic perspective --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex locorum --
_tGeneral index.
520 _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.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bPalo Alto, Calif. :
_cebrary,
_d2013.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aIntelligent design (Teleology)
650 0 _aPhilosophy, Ancient.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
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710 2 _aebrary, Inc.
830 0 _aSather classical lectures ;
_vv. 66.
830 0 _aJoan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10676245
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