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Creationism and its critics in antiquity
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AcknowledgmentsPreface[ch]. 1.Anaxagoras1. Thepresocratic agenda2.Anaxagoras's cosmology3. Thepower of nous4.Sun and Moon5.Worlds and seeds6.Nous as creator7.Scientific creationismAppendix : Anazagoras's theory of matter[ch]. 2.Empedocles1. Thecosmic cycle2. Thedouble zoogony3.Creationist discourse4.Design and accidentAppendix 1 : The double zoogony revisitedAppendix 2 : The chronology of the cycleAppendix 3 : Where in the cycle are we?Appendix 4 : Lucretian testimony for Empedocles' zoogony[ch]. 3.Socrates1.1.Diogenes of Apollonia2.Socrates in Xenophon3.Socrates in Plato's Phaedo4. Ahistorical synthesis[ch]. 4.Plato1. ThePhaedo myth2.Introducing the Timaeus3. Anact of creation?4.Divine craftsmanship5.Is the world perfect?6. Theorigin of species[ch]. 5. Theatomists1.Democritus2. TheEpicurean critique of creationism3. TheEpicurean alternative to creationism4.Epicurean infinity[ch]. 6.Aristotle1.God as paradigm2. Thecraft analogy3.Necessity4.Fortuitous outcomes5.Cosmic teleology6.Aristotle's Platonism[ch]. 7. Thestoics1.Stoicism2. Awindow on stoic theology3.Appropriating Socrates4.Appropriating Plato5.Whose benefit?Epilogue : A Galenic perspectiveBibliographyIndex locorumGeneral index.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Beschreibung:
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