Apeiron

Author : Radim Kočandrle,Dirk L. Couprie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319497549

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Apeiron by Radim Kočandrle,Dirk L. Couprie Pdf

This book offers an innovative analysis of the Greek philosopher Anaximander’s work. In particular, it presents a completely new interpretation of the key word Apeiron, or boundless, offering readers a deeper understanding of his seminal cosmology and, with it, his unique conception of the origin of the universe. Anaximander traditionally applied Apeiron to designate the origin of everything. The authors’ investigation of the extant sources shows, however, that this common view misses the mark. They argue that instead of reading Apeiron as a noun, it should be considered an adjective, with reference to the term phusis (nature), and that the phrase phusis apeiros may express the boundless power of nature, responsible for all creation and growth. The authors also offer an interpretation of Anaximander's cosmogony from a biological perspective: each further step in the differentiation of the phenomenal world is a continuation of the original separation of a fertile seed. This new reading of the first written account of cosmology stresses the central role of the boundless power of nature. It provides philosophers, researchers, and students with a thought-provoking explanation of this early thinker's conception of generation and destruction in the universe.

Author : Steven M. Rosen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401210218

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Dimensions of Apeiron by Steven M. Rosen Pdf

This book explores the evolution of space and time from the apeiron —the spaceless, timeless chaos of primordial nature. Rosen examines Western culture’s effort to deny apeiron, and the critical need now to lift the repression on apeiron for the sake of human individuation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : UOM:49015003218485

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Apeiron by Anonim Pdf

Author : Colum McCann
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443424431

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Apeirogon by Colum McCann Pdf

From celebrated Irish writer Colum McCann comes a dazzling new novel set in Occupied Palestine and Israel. In an astonishing act of the imagination, McCann illuminates the political situation that has riven the region for more than seventy years in a completely new light. Using a fascinating blend of real events and people, he fictionalizes their stories. As the author says, “This is a hybrid novel with invention at its core, a work of storytelling which, like all storytelling, weaves together elements of speculation, memory, fact and imagination.” McCann tells the story of Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian, and Rami Elhanan, an Israeli, and how they came together after the terrible loss of both of their daughters, one to suicide bombers and the other to Israeli police. Parents from both sides who have lost loved ones gather together in a Parents Circle to tell their stories, to heal, and to never forget their unimaginable losses. Deploying a myriad of seemingly unrelated historical, cultural and biographical snapshots, this highly original and inventive novel reframes the never-ending Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The result is a breath-taking narrative based on events that actually happened. McCann says, “Bassam and Rami have allowed me to shape and reshape their worlds. Despite these liberties, I hope to remain true to the actual realities of their shared experiences.” Apeirogon is a completely mesmerizing novel. Driven by a compelling voice, Colum McCann has written a powerful and haunting narrative that is simply masterful in its universal implications.

Author : Adam Drozdek
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015075646334

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In the Beginning was the Apeiron by Adam Drozdek Pdf

The book is a historical investigation of the problem of infinity in Greek ontology and physics - more specifically, the problem of the infinite size of the world and of its eternal existence, the problem of the infinity of worlds, of infinite divisibility of matter, of infinity of attributes or attribute modes (e.g., infinity of atom shapes), and the problem of infinity of nonphysical entities such as mathematical constructs. The view espoused here is that infinity was of paramount importance for Greek philosophers even if it was not explicitly discussed by them. It served as an unspoken assumption without which Greek philosophy could hardly be possible.

Author : Stephen Pearl Andrews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026326532

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The Basic Outline of Universology by Stephen Pearl Andrews Pdf

Author : John Wesley Hanson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Future punishment
ISBN : HARVARD:32044077897668

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Aiōn-aiōnios by John Wesley Hanson Pdf

Author : Parmenides,,Empedocles,
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781725229600

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Parmenides and Empedocles by Parmenides,,Empedocles, Pdf

Parmenides and Empedocles, along with Heraclitus the most important of the pre-Socratic philosophers, were at the same time among the greatest poets of the ancient world. But their work is rarely treated and still more rarely translated in its original form--as poetry. The complete extant fragments of Parmenides and Empedocles are collected here for the first time in a translation responsive to the original verse texts. Parmenides' philosophical fragments are here given as the poetic remains of the thinker from Elea in Southern Italy whom Socrates wondered at and Plato held in awe. What emerges from the poetry is at once an uncompromising vision of absolute Being and a compassionate understanding of the human cosmos: It is the body grows to Mind. All men desire the same thing, apprehend the same The plenum is thought, and thought preponderates. The poetry of Empedocles--reincarnationist, naturalist, cosmologist, religious leader, physiologist, and a metaphysician--is presented here in the personal idiom of the fifth-century Sicilian who has been called the last of the Greek shamans: I have already been A bush and a bird A boy and a girl A mute fish in the sea.

Author : D. VENKAT. RAO
Publisher : Critical Humanities Across Cultures
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367554372

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India, Europe and the Question of Cultural Difference by D. VENKAT. RAO Pdf

This book examines the question of cultural difference and living with diversity in India and Europe, with a focus on the key differences in understanding essential categories of learning such as art, nature, human, relation, action, literature, philosophy, and humanities.

Author : Steven W. Laycock
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791490969

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Nothingness and Emptiness by Steven W. Laycock Pdf

This sustained and distinctively Buddhist challenge to the ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness resolves the incoherence implicit in the Sartrean conception of nothingness by opening to a Buddhist vision of emptiness. Rooted in the insights of Madhyamika dialectic and an articulated meditative (zen) phenomenology, Nothingness and Emptiness uncovers and examines the assumptions that sustain Sartre's early phenomenological ontology and questions his theoretical elaboration of consciousness as "nothingness." Laycock demonstrates that, in addition to a "relative" nothingness (the for-itself) defined against the positivity and plenitude of the in-itself, Sartre's ontology requires, but also repudiates, a conception of "absolute" nothingness (the Buddhist "emptiness"), and is thus, as it stands, logically unstable, perhaps incoherent. The author is not simply critical; he reveals the junctures at which Sartrean ontology appeals for a Buddhist conception of emptiness and offers the needed supplement.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : UCSC:32106020372378

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Apeiron by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Mayhew
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0847686558

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Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Republic by Robert Mayhew Pdf

"The first five chapters of the second book of Aristotle's Politics contain a series of criticisms leveled against Plato's Republic. ... Mayhoew demonstrates that within this criticism Aristotle presents his views on an extremely fundamental issue: the unity of the city and the proper relationship between the individual and the city."--Cover.

Author : John Maxson Stillman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : UOM:39015016097837

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The Story of Early Chemistry by John Maxson Stillman Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912722178

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Ecstatic Data Sets by Anonim Pdf

Author : Julia Annas
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780801466977

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Platonic Ethics, Old and New by Julia Annas Pdf

Julia Annas here offers a fundamental reexamination of Plato's ethical thought by investigating the Middle Platonist perspective, which emerged at the end of Plato's own school, the Academy. She highlights the differences between ancient and modern assumptions about Plato's ethics—and stresses the need to be more critical about our own. One of these modern assumptions is the notion that the dialogues record the development of Plato's thought. Annas shows how the Middle Platonists, by contrast, viewed the dialogues as multiple presentations of a single Platonic ethical philosophy, differing in form and purpose but ultimately coherent. They also read Plato's ethics as consistently defending the view that virtue is sufficient for happiness, and see it as converging in its main points with the ethics of the Stoics. Annas goes on to explore the Platonic idea that humankind's final end is "becoming like God"—an idea that is well known among the ancients but virtually ignored in modern interpretations. She also maintains that modern interpretations, beginning in the nineteenth century, have placed undue emphasis on the Republic, and have treated it too much as a political work, whereas the ancients rightly saw it as a continuation of Plato's ethical writings.