Creationism and its critics in antiquity [[electronic resource] /] / David Sedley |
Autore | Sedley D. N |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (291 p.) |
Disciplina | 213 |
Collana |
Sather classical lectures
Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature |
Soggetto topico |
Intelligent design (Teleology)
Philosophy, Ancient |
Soggetto non controllato |
accident
anaxagoras ancient greek ancient rome anti creationist antiquity aristotle classical antiquity classical world controversial controversy cosmos creationism creationist disagreement divine empedocles famous philosopher great thinkers historical intelligent design philosopher philosophy plato scientific socrates stoics teleology theology theory western philosophy western science |
ISBN |
1-282-35938-X
9786612359385 0-520-93436-9 |
Classificazione | 08.21 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgments -- Preface -- ; [ch]. 1. Anaxagoras -- ; 1. The presocratic agenda -- ; 2. Anaxagoras's cosmology -- ; 3. The power 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. The cosmic cycle -- ; 2. The double 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. A historical synthesis -- ; [ch]. 4. Plato -- ; 1. The Phaedo myth -- ; 2. Introducing the Timaeus -- ; 3. An act of creation? -- ; 4. Divine craftsmanship -- ; 5. Is the world perfect? -- ; 6. The origin of species -- ; [ch]. 5. The atomists -- ; 1. Democritus -- ; 2. The Epicurean critique of creationism -- ; 3. The Epicurean alternative to creationism -- ; 4. Epicurean infinity -- ; [ch]. 6. Aristotle -- ; 1. God as paradigm -- ; 2. The craft analogy -- ; 3. Necessity -- ; 4. Fortuitous outcomes -- ; 5. Cosmic teleology -- ; 6. Aristotle's Platonism -- ; [ch]. 7. The stoics -- ; 1. Stoicism -- ; 2. A window on stoic theology -- ; 3. Appropriating Socrates -- ; 4. Appropriating Plato -- ; 5. Whose benefit? -- Epilogue : A Galenic perspective -- Bibliography -- Index locorum -- General index. |
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Creationism and its critics in antiquity [[electronic resource] /] / David Sedley |
Autore | Sedley D. N |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (291 p.) |
Disciplina | 213 |
Collana |
Sather classical lectures
Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature |
Soggetto topico |
Intelligent design (Teleology)
Philosophy, Ancient |
Soggetto non controllato |
accident
anaxagoras ancient greek ancient rome anti creationist antiquity aristotle classical antiquity classical world controversial controversy cosmos creationism creationist disagreement divine empedocles famous philosopher great thinkers historical intelligent design philosopher philosophy plato scientific socrates stoics teleology theology theory western philosophy western science |
ISBN |
1-282-35938-X
9786612359385 0-520-93436-9 |
Classificazione | 08.21 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgments -- Preface -- ; [ch]. 1. Anaxagoras -- ; 1. The presocratic agenda -- ; 2. Anaxagoras's cosmology -- ; 3. The power 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. The cosmic cycle -- ; 2. The double 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. A historical synthesis -- ; [ch]. 4. Plato -- ; 1. The Phaedo myth -- ; 2. Introducing the Timaeus -- ; 3. An act of creation? -- ; 4. Divine craftsmanship -- ; 5. Is the world perfect? -- ; 6. The origin of species -- ; [ch]. 5. The atomists -- ; 1. Democritus -- ; 2. The Epicurean critique of creationism -- ; 3. The Epicurean alternative to creationism -- ; 4. Epicurean infinity -- ; [ch]. 6. Aristotle -- ; 1. God as paradigm -- ; 2. The craft analogy -- ; 3. Necessity -- ; 4. Fortuitous outcomes -- ; 5. Cosmic teleology -- ; 6. Aristotle's Platonism -- ; [ch]. 7. The stoics -- ; 1. Stoicism -- ; 2. A window on stoic theology -- ; 3. Appropriating Socrates -- ; 4. Appropriating Plato -- ; 5. Whose benefit? -- Epilogue : A Galenic perspective -- Bibliography -- Index locorum -- General index. |
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On human nature [[electronic resource] ] : a gathering while everything flows, 1967-1984 / / Kenneth Burke ; edited by William H. Rueckert and Angelo Bonadonna ; arranged, and annotated by William H. Rueckert |
Autore | Burke Kenneth <1897-1993.> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (405 p.) |
Disciplina | 814/.52 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
RueckertWilliam H <1926-> (William Howe)
BonadonnaAngelo |
Soggetto topico |
Philosophy
Criticism |
Soggetto non controllato |
archetype
conservation correspondence creativity cultural critic cultural linguistics ecology environment essays great thinkers human nature language linguistics literary theory logology marginalia mind and body natural world nature nonfiction psychology rhetoric semiotics social commentary sociology stress technology universal language theory |
ISBN |
0-520-92306-5
1-59734-782-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | On stress, its seeking, 1967 -- On "creativity", a partial retraction, 1971 -- Towards Helhaven : three stages of a vision, 1971 -- Why satire, with a plan for writing one, 1974 -- Realisms, occidental style, 1982 -- Archetype and entelechy, 1972 -- (Nonsymbolic) motion/(symbolic) action, 1978 -- Theology and logology, 1979 -- Symbolism as a realistic mode : "de-psychoanalyzing" logologized, 1979 -- A theory of terminology, 1967 -- Towards looking back, 1976 -- Variations on "providence", 1981 -- Eye-crossing, from Brooklyn to Manhattan : an eye-poem for the ear, 1973 -- Counter-gridlock : an interview with Kenneth Burke, 1980-81. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455649703321 |
Burke Kenneth <1897-1993.>
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 | ||
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