04818nam 2200709 a 450 991045504120332120200520144314.01-282-35938-X97866123593850-520-93436-910.1525/9780520934368(CKB)1000000000798939(EBL)470980(OCoLC)609850127(SSID)ssj0000292950(PQKBManifestationID)11191834(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000292950(PQKBWorkID)10272395(PQKB)11097398(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055896(MiAaPQ)EBC470980(OCoLC)711603252(MdBmJHUP)muse30445(DE-B1597)520656(DE-B1597)9780520934368(Au-PeEL)EBL470980(CaPaEBR)ebr10676245(CaONFJC)MIL235938(EXLCZ)99100000000079893920070522d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCreationism and its critics in antiquity[electronic resource] /David SedleyBerkeley University of California Press20071 online resource (291 p.)Sather classical lectures ;v. 66Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literatureDescription based upon print version of record.0-520-26006-6 0-520-25364-7 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Acknowledgments --Preface --[ch]. 1.Anaxagoras --1. Thepresocratic agenda --2.Anaxagoras's cosmology --3. Thepower of nous --4.Sun and Moon --5.Worlds and seeds --6.Nous as creator --7.Scientific creationism --Appendix : Anazagoras's theory of matter --[ch]. 2.Empedocles --1. Thecosmic cycle --2. Thedouble zoogony --3.Creationist discourse --4.Design and accident --Appendix 1 : The double zoogony revisited --Appendix 2 : The chronology of the cycle --Appendix 3 : Where in the cycle are we? --Appendix 4 : Lucretian testimony for Empedocles' zoogony --[ch]. 3.Socrates --1.1.Diogenes of Apollonia --2.Socrates in Xenophon --3.Socrates in Plato's Phaedo --4. Ahistorical synthesis --[ch]. 4.Plato --1. ThePhaedo myth --2.Introducing the Timaeus --3. Anact of creation? --4.Divine craftsmanship --5.Is the world perfect? --6. Theorigin of species --[ch]. 5. Theatomists --1.Democritus --2. TheEpicurean critique of creationism --3. TheEpicurean alternative to creationism --4.Epicurean infinity --[ch]. 6.Aristotle --1.God as paradigm --2. Thecraft analogy --3.Necessity --4.Fortuitous outcomes --5.Cosmic teleology --6.Aristotle's Platonism --[ch]. 7. Thestoics --1.Stoicism --2. Awindow on stoic theology --3.Appropriating Socrates --4.Appropriating Plato --5.Whose benefit? --Epilogue : A Galenic perspective --Bibliography --Index locorum --General index.The 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.Sather classical lectures ;v. 66.Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.Intelligent design (Teleology)Philosophy, AncientElectronic books.Intelligent design (Teleology)Philosophy, Ancient.213Sedley D. N170220MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455041203321Creationism and its critics in Antiquity1017175UNINA