Apeiron

Author : Radim Kočandrle
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319497545
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apeiron written by Radim Kočandrle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an innovative analysis of the Greek philosopher Anaximander’s work. In particular, it presents a completely new interpretation of the key word Apeiron, or boundless, offering readers a deeper understanding of his seminal cosmology and, with it, his unique conception of the origin of the universe. Anaximander traditionally applied Apeiron to designate the origin of everything. The authors’ investigation of the extant sources shows, however, that this common view misses the mark. They argue that instead of reading Apeiron as a noun, it should be considered an adjective, with reference to the term phusis (nature), and that the phrase phusis apeiros may express the boundless power of nature, responsible for all creation and growth. The authors also offer an interpretation of Anaximander's cosmogony from a biological perspective: each further step in the differentiation of the phenomenal world is a continuation of the original separation of a fertile seed. This new reading of the first written account of cosmology stresses the central role of the boundless power of nature. It provides philosophers, researchers, and students with a thought-provoking explanation of this early thinker's conception of generation and destruction in the universe.

Author : Steven M. Rosen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401210217
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dimensions of Apeiron written by Steven M. Rosen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the evolution of space and time from the apeiron —the spaceless, timeless chaos of primordial nature. Rosen examines Western culture’s effort to deny apeiron, and the critical need now to lift the repression on apeiron for the sake of human individuation.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apeiron written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Colum McCann
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 067960460X
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apeirogon: A Novel written by Colum McCann and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A quite extraordinary novel. Colum McCann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with an unexpected friendship between two men at its powerfully beating heart.”—Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire FINALIST FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Independent • The New York Public Library • Library Journal From the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an epic novel rooted in the unlikely real-life friendship between two fathers. Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their lives, from the roads they are allowed to drive on to the schools their children attend to the checkpoints, both physical and emotional, they must negotiate. But their lives, however circumscribed, are upended one after the other: first, Rami’s thirteen-year-old daughter, Smadar, becomes the victim of suicide bombers; a decade later, Bassam’s ten-year-old daughter, Abir, is killed by a rubber bullet. Rami and Bassam had been raised to hate one another. And yet, when they learn of each other’s stories, they recognize the loss that connects them. Together they attempt to use their grief as a weapon for peace—and with their one small act, start to permeate what has for generations seemed an impermeable conflict. This extraordinary novel is the fruit of a seed planted when the novelist Colum McCann met the real Bassam and Rami on a trip with the non-profit organization Narrative 4. McCann was moved by their willingness to share their stories with the world, by their hope that if they could see themselves in one another, perhaps others could too. With their blessing, and unprecedented access to their families, lives, and personal recollections, McCann began to craft Apeirogon, which uses their real-life stories to begin another—one that crosses centuries and continents, stitching together time, art, history, nature, and politics in a tale both heartbreaking and hopeful. The result is an ambitious novel, crafted out of a universe of fictional and nonfictional material, with these fathers’ moving story at its heart.

Author : Adam Drozdek
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Beginning was the Apeiron written by Adam Drozdek and published by Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH. This book was released on 2008 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a historical investigation of the problem of infinity in Greek ontology and physics - more specifically, the problem of the infinite size of the world and of its eternal existence, the problem of the infinity of worlds, of infinite divisibility of matter, of infinity of attributes or attribute modes (e.g., infinity of atom shapes), and the problem of infinity of nonphysical entities such as mathematical constructs. The view espoused here is that infinity was of paramount importance for Greek philosophers even if it was not explicitly discussed by them. It served as an unspoken assumption without which Greek philosophy could hardly be possible.

Author : Paul Seligman
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013813672
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Apeiron of Anaximander written by Paul Seligman and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : John Maxson Stillman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Early Chemistry written by John Maxson Stillman and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Pearl Andrews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Basic Outline of Universology written by Stephen Pearl Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Parmenides,
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725229609
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parmenides and Empedocles written by Parmenides, and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parmenides and Empedocles, along with Heraclitus the most important of the pre-Socratic philosophers, were at the same time among the greatest poets of the ancient world. But their work is rarely treated and still more rarely translated in its original form--as poetry. The complete extant fragments of Parmenides and Empedocles are collected here for the first time in a translation responsive to the original verse texts. Parmenides' philosophical fragments are here given as the poetic remains of the thinker from Elea in Southern Italy whom Socrates wondered at and Plato held in awe. What emerges from the poetry is at once an uncompromising vision of absolute Being and a compassionate understanding of the human cosmos: It is the body grows to Mind. All men desire the same thing, apprehend the same The plenum is thought, and thought preponderates. The poetry of Empedocles--reincarnationist, naturalist, cosmologist, religious leader, physiologist, and a metaphysician--is presented here in the personal idiom of the fifth-century Sicilian who has been called the last of the Greek shamans: I have already been A bush and a bird A boy and a girl A mute fish in the sea.

Author : John Wesley Hanson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aiōn-aiōnios written by John Wesley Hanson and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: