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Author : Shaul Tor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107028166
This book rethinks the relations between reasoning and revelation and, therefore, the nature of philosophy and religion in archaic Greece.
Author : Dru Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781108831307
Biblical literature is as philosophically savvy as any ancient intellectual tradition, using story, law, and poetry to reason with us.
Author : James Bernard Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009392921
The goal of human life, according to Plato, Aristotle, and the Bible, is to become as much like god as possible. This book, written in vivid and lucid English, illuminates Greek philosophy by showing how it grows out of ancient Greek religion and how it compares to biblical religion.
Author : David Conan Wolfsdorf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191076411
Early Greek Ethics is devoted to Greek philosophical ethics in its formative period, from the last decades of the sixth century BCE to the beginning of the fourth century BCE. It begins with the inception of Greek philosophical ethics and ends immediately before the composition of Plato's and Aristotle's mature ethical works Republic and Nicomachean Ethics. The ancient contributors include Presocratics such as Heraclitus, Democritus, and figures of the early Pythagorean tradition such as Empedocles and Archytas of Tarentum, who have previously been studied principally for their metaphysical, cosmological, and natural philosophical ideas. Socrates and his lesser known associates such as Antisthenes of Athens and Aristippus of Cyrene also feature, as well as sophists such as Gorgias of Leontini, Antiphon of Athens, and Prodicus of Ceos, and anonymous texts such as the Pythagorean Acusmata, Dissoi Logoi, Anonymus Iamblichi, and On Law and Justice. In addition to chapters on these individuals and texts, the volume explores select fields and topics especially influential to ethical philosophical thought in the formative period and later, such as early Greek medicine, music, friendship, justice and the afterlife, and early Greek ethnography. Consisting of thirty chapters composed by an international team of leading philosophers and classicists, Early Greek Ethics is the first volume in any language devoted to philosophical ethics in the formative period.
Author : Andrew Gregory
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350080980
This book examines the philosophies of nature of the early Greek thinkers and argues that a significant and thoroughgoing shift is required in our understanding of them. In contrast with the natural world of the earliest Greek literature, often the result of arbitrary divine causation, in the work of early Ionian philosophers we see the idea of a cosmos: ordered worlds where there is complete regularity. How was this order generated and maintained and what underpinned those regularities? What analogies or models were used for the order of the cosmos? What did they think about causation and explanatory structure? How did they frame natural laws? Andrew Gregory draws on recent work on mechanistic philosophy and its history, on the historiography of the relation of science to art, religion and magic, and on the fragments and doxography of the early Greek thinkers to argue that there has been a tendency to overestimate the extent to which these early Greek philosophies of nature can be described as 'mechanistic'. We have underestimated how far they were committed to other modes of explanation and ontologies, and we have underestimated, underappreciated and indeed underexplored how plausible and good these philosophies would have been in context.
Author : Tom Mackenzie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108843935
The first book-length, literary-critical study of the Presocratic philosopher-poets, Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles. Sheds new light on these authors' philosophical projects and enriches our appreciation of their works as literary artefacts, also arguing that they played an important role in the development of Greek poetics.
Author : Olaf Almqvist
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350221864
Cosmological narratives like the creation story in the book of Genesis or the modern Big Bang are popularly understood to be descriptions of how the universe was created. However, cosmologies also say a great deal more. Indeed, the majority of cosmologies, ancient and modern, explore not simply how the world was made but how humans relate to their surrounding environment and the often thin line which separates humans from gods and animals. Combining approaches from classical studies, anthropology, and philosophy, this book studies three competing cosmologies of the early Greek world: Hesiod's Theogony; the Orphic Derveni theogony; and Protagoras' creation myth in Plato's eponymous dialogue. Although all three cosmologies are part of a single mythic tradition and feature a number of similar events and characters, Olaf Almqvist argues they offer very different answers to an ongoing debate on what it is to be human. Engaging closely with the ontological turn in anthropology and in particular with the work of Philippe Descola, this book outlines three key sets of ontological assumptions – analogism, pantheism, and naturalism – found in early Greek literature and explores how these competing ontological assumptions result in contrasting attitudes to rituals such as prayer and sacrifice.
Author : Victor Caston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192688293
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback. "'Have you seen the latest OSAP?' is what scholars of ancient philosophy say to each other when they meet in corridors or on coffee breaks. Whether you work on Plato or Aristotle, on Presocratics or sophists, on Stoics, Epicureans, or Sceptics, on Roman philosophers or Greek Neoplatonists, you are liable to find OSAP articles now dominant in the bibliography of much serious published work in your particular subject: not safe to miss." - Malcolm Schofield, Cambridge University "OSAP was founded to provide a place for long pieces on major issues in ancient philosophy. In the years since, it has fulfilled this role with great success, over and over again publishing groundbreaking papers on what seemed to be familiar topics and others surveying new ground to break. It represents brilliantly the vigour—and the increasingly broad scope—of scholarship in ancient philosophy, and shows us all how the subject should flourish." - M.M. McCabe, King's College London
Author : Hynek Bartoš,Colin Guthrie King
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108476737
The first volume to examine theories of soul in Greek philosophy using an approach drawn from the history of science.
Author : Verity Harte,Raphael Woolf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107194977
Revisits central texts and themes in ancient philosophy in order to throw fresh light on some familiar passages and debates.
Author : Richard Seaford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108499552
Explains for the first time the genesis and early form of both Indian and Greek philosophy, and their striking similarities.
Author : James Luchte
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441156167
Early Greek Thought calls into question a longstanding mythology - operative in both the Analytic and Continental traditions - that the 'Pre-Socratics had the grandiose audacity to break with all traditional forms of knowledge' (Badiou). Each of the variants of this mythology is dismantled in an attempt to not only retrieve an 'indigenous' interpretation of early Greek thought, but also to expose the mythological character of our own contemporary meta-narratives regarding the 'origins' of 'Western', 'Occidental' philosophy. Using an original hermeneutical approach, James Luchte excavates the context of emergence of early Greek thought through an exploration of the mytho-poetic horizons of the archaic world, in relation to which, as Plato testifies, the Greeks were merely 'children'. Luchte discloses 'philosophy in the tragic age' as a creative response to a 'contestation' of mytho-poetic narratives and 'ways of being'. The tragic character of early Greek thought is unfolded through a cultivation of a conversation between its basic thinkers, one which would remain incomprehensible, with Bataille, in the 'absence of myth' and the exile of poetry.
Author : James C Ford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000925494
This fresh, comprehensive study of ancient Greek atheism aims to dismantle the current consensus that atheism was ‘unthinkable’ in ancient Greece, demonstrating instead that atheism was not only thinkable but inextricably embedded in the Greek religious environment. Through careful analysis of a wide range of source material provided in modern English translation, and drawing on philosophy, theology, sociology, and other disciplines, Ford unpicks a two and a half thousand-year history of marginalisation, clearing the way for a new analysis. He lays out in clear terms the nature and form of ancient Greek atheism as the ancient Greeks conceived of it, through a series of themes and lenses. Topics such as religious socialisation, the interaction of atheist philosophy and theology, identity formation through alterity, and the use of atheism in scapegoating are considered not only in broad terms, using a synthesis of modern scholarship to mark out an overview in line with modern consensus, but also by drawing on the unique perspective of ancient atheism Ford is able to provide innovative theories about a range of subjects. Atheism at the Agora is of interest to students and scholars in Classics, particularly Greek religion and culture, as well as those studying atheism in other historical and contemporary areas, religious studies, philosophy, and theology.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004513921
This fascinating volume rethinks the relationship between early Greek philosophers and the epic poet Hesiod, by presenting fifteen studies that offer different perspectives on matters of style, genre, intertextuality and the history of ideas.
Author : Vilius Bartninkas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009322591
Shows how Plato's distinction between the traditional and cosmic gods sheds new light on his relation to Greek religion.
