LEADER 04818nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910455041203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-35938-X 010 $a9786612359385 010 $a0-520-93436-9 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520934368 035 $a(CKB)1000000000798939 035 $a(EBL)470980 035 $a(OCoLC)609850127 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000292950 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11191834 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000292950 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10272395 035 $a(PQKB)11097398 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055896 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC470980 035 $a(OCoLC)711603252 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30445 035 $a(DE-B1597)520656 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520934368 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL470980 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10676245 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235938 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000798939 100 $a20070522d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCreationism and its critics in antiquity$b[electronic resource] /$fDavid Sedley 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (291 p.) 225 1 $aSather classical lectures ;$vv. 66 225 1 $aJoan Palevsky imprint in classical literature 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-26006-6 311 $a0-520-25364-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tAcknowledgments --$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. 330 $aThe world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? Ancient Greeks and Romans famously disagreed on whether the cosmos was the product of design or accident. In this book, David Sedley examines this question and illuminates new historical perspectives on the pantheon of thinkers who laid the foundations of Western philosophy and science. Versions of what we call the "creationist" option were widely favored by the major thinkers of classical antiquity, including Plato, whose ideas on the subject prepared the ground for Aristotle's celebrated teleology. But Aristotle aligned himself with the anti-creationist lobby, whose most militant members--the atomists--sought to show how a world just like ours would form inevitably by sheer accident, given only the infinity of space and matter. This stimulating study explores seven major thinkers and philosophical movements enmeshed in the debate: Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, the atomists, Aristotle, and the Stoics. 410 0$aSather classical lectures ;$vv. 66. 410 0$aJoan Palevsky imprint in classical literature. 606 $aIntelligent design (Teleology) 606 $aPhilosophy, Ancient 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aIntelligent design (Teleology) 615 0$aPhilosophy, Ancient. 676 $a213 700 $aSedley$b D. N$0170220 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455041203321 996 $aCreationism and its critics in Antiquity$91017175 997 $aUNINA