Empedocles Cosmic Cycle

Author : Denis O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608100196

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Empedocles' Cosmic Cycle by Denis O'Brien Pdf

Author : Denis O'Brien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521100372

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Empedocles' Cosmic Cycle by Denis O'Brien Pdf

The cosmic cycle described in the surviving fragments of Empedocles' poem is the alternation, in endless succession, of Love and Strife. Love is the cause of happiness and unity; Strife the cause of separation and misery. These forces rule in turn as they cause the One and the Many. Love makes the elements into a blissful whole, the Sphere; Strife breaks into the Sphere and causes movement and division - the condition of the world, according to Empedocles, in which we now live. Dr O'Brien's book is primarily an analysis of this elaborate system. It seeks to determine the positions which Love and Strife occupy in the world at different times, the processes involved in becoming one and becoming many and the duration of being one and being many. It examines such associated themes as Empedocles' view of the nature of the soul and his use of the traditional motif 'like to like'. Finally, Dr O'Brien considers Empedocles; place in the subsequent development of Greek philosophy. He sees Empedocles' work as a primitive anticipation of Plato, a significant union of spiritual other-worldliness with the philosophical and scientific traditions of the Presocratics.

Author : Apostolos L. Pierris
Publisher : Institute for Philosophical Research, Patras
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015082661904

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The Empedoclean "Kosmos": Papers by Apostolos L. Pierris Pdf

Papers from the Symposium Philosophiae Antiquae Tertium Myconense held in Mykonos, 6th - 13th July 2003. The theme was Empedocles' conception of Kosmos , and contributors look at his theory on the foundation, order, and development of the world; a basic reassessment of the Cosmic Cycle; the physical, metaphysical and religious dimensions of his theory; and the substantial new piece of Empedoclean evidence provided by the Strasbourg Papyrus. Contributors: Sir Anthony Kenny; Glenn Most; Jean Bollack; Rene Nuenlist; Richard Janko; Patricia Curd; Richard McKirahan; Apostolos Pierris; Daniel Graham; Oliver Primavesi; André Laks; Catherine Osborne; Angelo Tonelli; David Sedley; Laura Gemelli-Marciano.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004443358

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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought by Anonim Pdf

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought explores both explicit and hidden influences of Presocratic (6-4th c. BCE) early scientific concepts, such as nature, elements, principles, soul, organization, causation, purpose, and cosmos in Platonic, Aristotelian, and Hippocratic philosophy

Author : Simon Trepanier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135886776

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Empedocles by Simon Trepanier Pdf

Offers the first complete reinterpretation of Empedocles – one of the founding figures of Western philosophy – since the publication of the Strasbourg papyrus in 1999 brought new fragments of his lost work to light.

Author : Daniel W. Graham
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400827459

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Explaining the Cosmos by Daniel W. Graham Pdf

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.

Author : Monica R. Gale
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191531989

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Oxford Readings in Lucretius by Monica R. Gale Pdf

This book gathers together some of the most important and influential scholarly articles of the last sixty to seventy years (three of which are translated into English here for the first time) on the Roman poet Lucretius. Lucretius' philosophical epic, the De Rerum Natura or On the Nature of the Universe (c.55 BC), seeks to convince its reader of the validity of the rationalist theories of the Hellenistic thinker Epicurus. The articles collected in this volume explore Lucretius' poetic and argumentative technique from a variety of perspectives, and also consider the poem in relation to its philosophical and literary milieux, and to the values and ideology of contemporary Roman society. All quotations in Latin or Greek are translated.

Author : Alexander P.D. Mourelatos
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400863204

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The Pre-Socratics by Alexander P.D. Mourelatos Pdf

This collection introduces readers to some of the most respected Pre-Socratic scholarship of the twentieth century. It includes translations of important works from European scholars that were previously unavailable in English and incorporates the major topics and approaches of contemporary scholarship. Here is an essential book for students and scholars alike. "Students of the Pre-Socratics must be grateful to Mourelatos and his publishers for making these essays available to a wider public."--T. H. Irwin, American Journal of Philology "Mourelatos is a superb editor, and teaching Pre-Socratics in the future with this collection on the reading list will not only be easier but also better."--Jorgen Mejer, The Classical World "The editor has done his work judiciously. It would be difficult to devise a better balance between different parts of the subject."--Edward Hussey, Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences "[This book] will undoubtedly become an indispensable aid for beginning and advanced students of the Pre-Socratics."--David E. Hahm, Isis Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Patricia Curd
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603845984

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A Presocratics Reader by Patricia Curd Pdf

Building on the virtues that made the first edition of A Presocratics Reader the most widely used sourcebook for the study of the Presocratics and Sophists, the second edition offers even more value and a wider selection of fragments from these philosophical predecessors and contemporaries of Socrates. With revised introductions, annotations, suggestions for further reading, and more, the second edition draws on the wealth of new scholarship published on these fascinating thinkers over the past decade or more, a remarkably rich period in Presocratic studies. At the volume's core, as ever, are the fragments themselves--but now in thoroughly revised and, in some cases, new translations by Richard D. McKirahan and Patricia Curd, among them those of the recently published Derveni Papyrus.

Author : Jonathan Barnes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134965137

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The Presocratic Philosophers by Jonathan Barnes Pdf

The Presocratics were the founding fathers of the Western philosophical tradition, and the first masters of rational thought. This volume provides a comprehensive and precise exposition of their arguments, and offers a rigorous assessment of their contribution to philosophical thought.

Author : Ilaria Ramelli
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004245709

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The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis by Ilaria Ramelli Pdf

The theory of apokatastasis (restoration), most famously defended by the Alexandrian exegete, philosopher and theologian Origen, has its roots in both Greek philosophy and Jewish-Christian Scriptures and literature, and became a major theologico-soteriological doctrine in patristics. This monograph—the first comprehensive, systematic scholarly study of the history of the Christian apokatastasis doctrine—argues its presence and Christological and Biblical foundation in numerous Christian thinkers, including Syriac, and analyses its origins, meaning, and development over eight centuries, from the New Testament to Eriugena, the last patristic philosopher. Surprises await readers of this book, which results from fifteen years of research. For instance, they will discover that even Augustine, in his anti-Manichaean phase, supported the theory of universal restoration.

Author : Richard Faure,Simon-Pierre Valli,Arnaud Zucker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110736076

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Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity by Richard Faure,Simon-Pierre Valli,Arnaud Zucker Pdf

This collection of articles is an important milestone in the history of the study of time conceptions in Greek and Roman Antiquity. It spans from Homer to Neoplatonism. Conceptions of time are considered from different points of view and sources. Reflections on time were both central and various throughout the history of ancient philosophy. Time was a topic, but also material for poets, historians and doctors. Importantly, the contributions also explore implicit conceptions and how language influences our thought categories.

Author : Chiara Ferella
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009392587

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Reconstructing Empedocles' Thought by Chiara Ferella Pdf

To understand Empedocles' thought, one must view his work as a unified whole of religion and physics. Only a few interpreters, however, recognise rebirth as a positive doctrine within Empedocles' physics and attempt to reconcile its details with the cosmological account. This study shows how rebirth underlies Empedocles' cosmic system, being a structuring principle of his physics. It reconstructs the proem to his physical poem and then shows that claims to disembodied existence, individual identity and personal survival of death(s) prove central to his physics; that knowledge of the cosmos is the path to escape rebirth; that purifications are essential to comprehending the world and changing one's being, and that the cosmic cycle, with its ethical import, is the ideal backdrop for Empedocles' doctrine of rebirth. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Author : Jonathan Barnes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136291128

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Presocratics-Arg Philosophers by Jonathan Barnes Pdf

The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence and significance.

Author : Anthony Preus
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791449564

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Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy VI by Anthony Preus Pdf

An anthology devoted to the intellectual developments that led up to the philosophy of Plato.