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2009
Abstract This article explores early Greeks' cosmological speculation, showing how they explored the possibility of a “theory of everything” and human understanding of the cosmos. In the exposition of competitive cosmologies, there are three questions still unresolved: the form of most of the matter in the universe is not known; the ...
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Abstract This article explores early Greeks' cosmological speculation, showing how they explored the possibility of a “theory of everything” and human understanding of the cosmos. In the exposition of competitive cosmologies, there are three questions still unresolved: the form of most of the matter in the universe is not known; the ...
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Phronesis, 1996
First comes a substantial set of readings in Greek philosophy from the beginnings to Aristotle, compiled by Marc Cohen, Patricia Curd and C.D.C. Reeve.' This has a brief general introduction and maps, separate introductions to the three sections on 'The Presocratics and the Sophists', 'Plato' and 'Aristotle', with suggestions for further reading, a ...
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First comes a substantial set of readings in Greek philosophy from the beginnings to Aristotle, compiled by Marc Cohen, Patricia Curd and C.D.C. Reeve.' This has a brief general introduction and maps, separate introductions to the three sections on 'The Presocratics and the Sophists', 'Plato' and 'Aristotle', with suggestions for further reading, a ...
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2009
Abstract If in the context of early and classical Greek thought, the term “theology” is taken to mean “of God/gods/the gods and his/their putative relationship, causal and directive, to the world and its operations, and to ourselves within that world,” or something of that order, the first ascription of such a notion to a Presocratic ...
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Abstract If in the context of early and classical Greek thought, the term “theology” is taken to mean “of God/gods/the gods and his/their putative relationship, causal and directive, to the world and its operations, and to ourselves within that world,” or something of that order, the first ascription of such a notion to a Presocratic ...
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2004
Abstract Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction introduces the first thinkers to explore ideas about the nature of reality, time, and the origin of the universe. It begins by discussing a new papyrus fragment of Empedocles, and uses the story of its discovery and interpretation to highlight the way our understanding of early ...
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Abstract Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction introduces the first thinkers to explore ideas about the nature of reality, time, and the origin of the universe. It begins by discussing a new papyrus fragment of Empedocles, and uses the story of its discovery and interpretation to highlight the way our understanding of early ...
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