Infinity In The Presocratics
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Infinity In The Presocratics
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Author : L. Sweeney
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Infinity In The Presocratics written by L. Sweeney and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Philosophy categories.
Throughout the long centuries of western metaphysics the problem of the infinite has kept surfacing in different but important ways. It had confronted Greek philosophical speculation from earliest times. It appeared in the definition of the divine attributed to Thales in Diogenes Laertius (I, 36) under the description "that which has neither beginning nor end. " It was presented on the scroll of Anaximander with enough precision to allow doxographers to transmit it in the technical terminology of the unlimited (apeiron) and the indeterminate (aoriston). The respective quanti tative and qualitative implications of these terms could hardly avoid causing trouble. The formation of the words, moreover, was clearly negative or privative in bearing. Yet in the philosophical framework the notion in its earliest use meant something highly positive, signifying fruitful content for the first principle of all the things that have positive status in the universe. These tensions could not help but make themselves felt through the course of later Greek thought. In one extreme the notion of the infinite was refined in a way that left it appropriated to the Aristotelian category of quantity. In Aristotle (Phys. III 6-8) it came to appear as essentially re quiring imperfection and lack. It meant the capacity for never-ending increase. It was always potential, never completely actualized.
Infinity In The Presocratics
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Author : Leo Sweeney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Infinity In The Presocratics written by Leo Sweeney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Infinite categories.
Matter And Infinity In The Presocratic Schools And Plato
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Author : Theo Gerard Sinnige
language : en
Publisher: Assen : Van Gorcum
Release Date : 1968
Matter And Infinity In The Presocratic Schools And Plato written by Theo Gerard Sinnige and has been published by Assen : Van Gorcum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Infinite categories.
Divine Infinity In Greek And Medieval Thought
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Author : Leo Sweeney
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 1992
Divine Infinity In Greek And Medieval Thought written by Leo Sweeney and has been published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Mathematics categories.
In this history of the notion of divine infinity, Sweeney (philosophy, Loyola U.) offers an interpretation of Gregory of Nyssa that illumines other thinkers who, like Gregory, predicate the infinity of God by locating him above place, time, and anything created. He also discusses such thinkers as Plato, Plotinus, Proclus, Richard Fishacre, and John Damascene, including numerous selections from their writings. Name index only. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Studies In Presocratic Philosophy Volume 1
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Author : David Furley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-08-25
Studies In Presocratic Philosophy Volume 1 written by David Furley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-25 with Philosophy categories.
Collected in this volume are some of the most important articles published on the philosophy of the Greeks before Socrates. They cover: The nature of Presocratic thought The sources of our knowledge of the Presocratics The earliest philosophers up to Heraclitus
The Founders Of Western Thought The Presocratics
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Author : Constantine J. Vamvacas
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2009-05-28
The Founders Of Western Thought The Presocratics written by Constantine J. Vamvacas and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-28 with Philosophy categories.
There can be little doubt that the Greek tradition of philosophical criticism had its main source in Ionia. . . It thus leads the tradition which created the rational or scienti?c attitude, and with it our Western civilization, the only civilization, which is based upon science (though, of course, not upon science alone). Karl Popper, Back to the Presocratics Harvard University physicist and historian of Science, Gerald Holton, coined the term “Ionian Enchantment”, an expression that links the idea back in the 6th c- tury B. C. to the ancient Ionians along the eastern Aegean coast, while capturing its fascination. Approximately within a seventy- ve year period (600–525 B. C. ) -a split second in the history of humanity- the three Milesian thinkers, Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes, without plain evidence, but with an unequalled power of critical abstraction and intuition, had achieved a true intellectual re- lution; they founded and bequeathed to future generations a new, unprecedented way of theorizing the world; it could be summarized in four statements: beneath the apparent disorder and multiplicity of the cosmos, there exists order, unity and stability; unity derives from the fundamental primary substratum from which the cosmos originated; this, and, consequently, the cosmic reality, is one, and is based not on supernatural, but on physical causes; they are such that man can - vestigate them rationally. These four statements are neither self-evident nor se- explanatory.
The Presocratics
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Author : Philip Ellis Wheelwright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
The Presocratics written by Philip Ellis Wheelwright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Philosophy categories.
Presocratics Arg Philosophers
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Author : Jonathan Barnes
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-08
Presocratics Arg Philosophers written by Jonathan Barnes and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-08 with Philosophy categories.
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Reading Ancient Texts Presocratics And Plato
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Author : Denis O'Brien
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2007
Reading Ancient Texts Presocratics And Plato written by Denis O'Brien and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
The contributors to this volume offer, in the light of specialised knowledge of leading philosophers of the ancient world, answers to the question: how are we to read and understand the surviving texts of Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and Augustine?
Studies In Presocratic Philosophy Volume 2
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Author : David Furley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-08-19
Studies In Presocratic Philosophy Volume 2 written by David Furley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-19 with Philosophy categories.
The articles in this volume deal with the four major philosophical positions of the presocratic period: The arguments of Parmenides and Zeno against earlier or contemporary pluralist theories The three pluralist responses of Empedocles, Anaxagoras and the early Atomists.