In The Beginning Was The Apeiron

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 : Luce Irigaray
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441106375
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Beginning, She Was written by Luce Irigaray and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-12-27 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant new work by Luce Irigaray, one of the greatest living French thinkers, in which she deepens her arguments in relation to sexuate difference.

Author : Werner Jaeger
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1592443214
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers written by Werner Jaeger and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new and revolutionizing ideas which the early Greek thinkers developed about the nature of the universe had a direct impact upon their conception of what they called, in a new sense, 'God' or 'the Divine.' The history of the philosophical theology of the Greeks is thus the history of their rational approach to the nature of reality itself in its successive phases. The late Professor Jaeger's classic book traces this development from the first intimations in Hesiod of the theology that was to come, through the heroic age of Greek cosmological thought, down to the time of the Sophists of the fifth century B.C.

Author : Martin Heidegger
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253015618
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beginning of Western Philosophy written by Martin Heidegger and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a close reading of two presocratic philosophers, Heidegger demonstrates that all of Western philosophy is rooted in the question of Being. This volume comprises a lecture course given at the University of Freiburg in 1932, five years after the publication of Being and Time. During this period, Heidegger was at the height of his creative powers, which are on full display in this clear and imaginative text. Heidegger analyses two of the earliest philosophical source documents, fragments by Greek thinkers Anaximander and Parmenides. Heidegger develops their common theme of Being and non-being and shows that the question of Being is indeed the origin of Western philosophy. His engagement with these Greek texts is as much of a return to beginnings as it is a potential reawakening of philosophical wonder and inquiry in the present.

Author : Barry Sandywell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134853475
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Presocratic Reflexivity: The Construction of Philosophical Discourse c. 600-450 B.C. written by Barry Sandywell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third Volume of Logological Investigations Sandywell continues his sociological reconstruction of the origins of reflexive thought and discourse with special reference to pre-Socratic philosophy and science and their socio-political context.

Author : Kelsey Wood
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791482944
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Troubling Play written by Kelsey Wood and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troubling Play is a new and illuminating interpretation of Plato's Parmenides—notoriously the most difficult of the dialogues. Showing that the Parmenides is an inquiry into time and the forms of language, author Kelsey Wood notes that the dialogue's suggestion of sophistry is intended to provoke the silently observant Socrates. The young Socrates believes that knowing is prior to existence, but Parmenides ultimately shows him that the meaning of intelligible discourse is derived from existence in time. Although we cannot think apart from intelligible forms, nevertheless, any number of modes of intelligibility are possible. This relation of ideals of intelligibility—the forms of logos—to temporal being is a crucial topic of special relevance to philosophers today. Wood's detailed methodological analysis ties the Parmenides to other later dialogues such as the Sophist, Theatetus, and Philebus, and also to earlier works such as the Republic and the poem of Parmenides.

Author : Vijay Tankha
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 9332537356
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Greek Philosophy 2/e written by Vijay Tankha and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2014 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the principal fragments of the early Greek thinkers like Anaximander, Heraclitus, Pythagoras, Parmenides and many others, who predate Plato and Aristotle. The author contends that pre-Platonic Greek philosophy is not to be looked at as a matter of mere historical interest. Although their work survives only in fragments, they have been the subject of study and reflection by the whole western philosophical tradition. Therefore the second edition of Ancient Greek Philosophy: Thales to Socrates covers the gamut of western thought from the pre-Socratic to the Socratic in order to provide us with an in-depth introduction to the whole of classical Greek philosophy.

Author : P F M Fontaine
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004663754
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dualism in Roman History V written by P F M Fontaine and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Keith Chambers Guthrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521294218
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 2, The Presocratic Tradition from Parmenides to Democritus written by William Keith Chambers Guthrie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship.

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822975769
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays in Philosophical Analysis written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents twenty essays by Nicholas Rescher, representing more than a decade of his work. The first part of the collection offers thoughts on the history of philosophy from the Presocratics to the twentieth century; the second part features essays on epistemology, the philosophy of science, metaphysics, the theory of historiography, and the logic of temporal concepts. Despite the range of topics, all essays are closely integrated at the methodological level.