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Early Greek Philosophies of Nature
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Methodological Issues -- Early Greek mechanistic thought? -- Modernization? -- Reflexivity -- Parallels -- Use of kubernan and kratein -- Intellectual space -- Analogies -- Earl...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Online-Ressource Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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London
: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
, 2020
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| Online Zugang: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6272361 |
| E-Book-Pakete: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Zusammenfassung: | Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Methodological Issues -- Early Greek mechanistic thought? -- Modernization? -- Reflexivity -- Parallels -- Use of kubernan and kratein -- Intellectual space -- Analogies -- Early Greek history -- Mechanists and mēchanē -- Unitary definition of mechanical? -- Why not or why? -- Modern and seventeenth-century mechanical philosophy? -- Nature and phusis -- Plato and peri phuseōs historia -- Plato and peri phuseōs skopein -- Conclusion -- 2 Order in Homer and Hesiod -- Homer, Hesiod and phusis -- Homer and phusis -- Circe polupharmakos -- Kubernan and kratein -- Hephaestus, Phaeacian ships and mechanism -- The moira vocabulary -- Setting moira -- Maintenance of moira -- Inevitable moira? -- The gods of the poets -- Hesiod and moira -- Conclusion -- 3 Early Ideas on Knowledge and Enquiry -- Actions of the gods -- Chance -- Intervention? -- Formulating laws in Homer? -- Knowing gods -- Reliable gods? -- Knowledge of moira? -- Divine knowledge and language -- Human knowledge generally -- Knowledge in Homer -- Historians and historia -- Hesiod and revision? -- Pindar and Muses -- Xenophanes -- Parmenides' challenge? -- Conclusion -- 4 Anaximander and the Kubernan Tradition -- Anaximander and kubernan? -- The kubernan tradition -- The extent of kubernan? -- Plato and Aristotle -- How does steering work? -- Steering and safety -- Pindar, Bacchylides and kubernan -- Anaximander's Cosmogony process -- Vortices in Anaximander? -- Cosmoi for Anaximander -- Supporting infrastructure? -- Motivation -- Positive Doxography -- Cosmogony doxography -- Theophrastus -- Decay -- The heavens -- Eclipses and phases -- The wheel analogy -- Astronomy or cosmology? -- Anaximander's numbers -- Conclusion -- 5 New Explanations, New Philosophies of Nature. Meteorology -- Lloyd's critique -- Meteorology and explanation -- Zoogony and observation -- Anaximander's extant fragment -- Chreōn as proper -- Steering again -- Underpinning regularities? -- Invariance -- The divine apeiron -- Conclusion -- 6 Anaximenes and the Kratein Tradition -- Kratein and Kubernan -- Anaximenes -- Macrocosm/microcosm? -- Anaximenes and vortices -- Anaximenes and analogies -- Xenophanes -- Heraclitus -- Parmenides -- Derveni papyrus -- Empedocles -- Love and Strife -- Like to like -- Anaxagoras -- Democritus -- Conclusion -- 7 Leucippus and Democritus -- Like to like -- Like to like and vortices? -- Mechanical philosophies -- Like to like and congregation -- Taylor's forces -- Mechanical analogies? -- Machine analogies? -- Divine mechanism? -- Application of mathematical mechanics? -- Aristotle and change -- Early atomists and motion -- Historical application of mathematics? -- Laplace's demon? -- Reply to Parmenides -- Laplacian disconnections -- Chance and necessity -- The rejection of determinism -- The seventeenth century and Plato? -- Conclusion -- 8 The Hippocratic Authors -- Epilepsy and disease -- The sacred disease and nature -- The issue -- Context and targets -- Other passages -- Pantheism -- Prayer -- Pantheism and explanation -- Nature and healing -- Macrocosm/microcosm and steering fire -- Dreams -- Hippocratic use of kubernan and kratein -- Justification? -- Hippocratic like to like -- Mechanisms in the Hippocratics? -- Humours -- Hippocratic analogies -- An Empedoclean parallel? -- William Harvey -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (257 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781350080980 |
