The Concept Of Motion In Ancient Greek Thought

Author : Barbara M. Sattler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108802621
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought written by Barbara M. Sattler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the birth of the scientific understanding of motion. It investigates which logical tools and methodological principles had to be in place to give a consistent account of motion, and which mathematical notions were introduced to gain control over conceptual problems of motion. It shows how the idea of motion raised two fundamental problems in the 5th and 4th century BCE: bringing together being and non-being, and bringing together time and space. The first problem leads to the exclusion of motion from the realm of rational investigation in Parmenides, the second to Zeno's paradoxes of motion. Methodological and logical developments reacting to these puzzles are shown to be present implicitly in the atomists, and explicitly in Plato who also employs mathematical structures to make motion intelligible. With Aristotle we finally see the first outline of the fundamental framework with which we conceptualise motion today.

Author : Francis MacDonald Cornford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107635373
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Laws of Motion in Ancient Thought written by Francis MacDonald Cornford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the text of Francis Cornford's 1931 inaugural lecture upon becoming Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the University of Cambridge.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3986772901
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Heavens written by Aristotle and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-11-14 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Heavens Aristotle - On the Heavens is Aristotle's chief cosmological treatise: written in 350 BC it contains his astronomical theory and his ideas on the concrete workings of the terrestrial world. This work is significant as one of the defining pillars of the Aristotelian worldview, a school of philosophy that dominated intellectual thinking for almost two millennia. Similarly, this work and others by Aristotle were important seminal works by which much of scholasticism was derived.

Author : R. J. Hankinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199246564
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought written by R. J. Hankinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work traces the history of ancient Greek thought about causation and explanation. It examines ways in which they dealt with questions about how and why things happen, about the constitution and structure of things, laws of nature, and more.

Author : Liba Taub
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107092485
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science written by Liba Taub and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a broad framework for engaging with ideas relevant to ancient Greek and Roman science, medicine and technology.

Author : Joseph Bright Skemp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107699185
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theory of Motion in Plato's Later Dialogues written by Joseph Bright Skemp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book 1942 examines Plato's later dialogues in terms of their dependence on pre-Socratic philosophy and other aspects of ancient thought and life.

Author : Edward Jayne
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761869670
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Archaeology of Disbelief written by Edward Jayne and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Archaeology of Disbelief traces the origin of secular philosophy to pre-Socratic Greek philosophers who proposed a physical universe without supernatural intervention. Some mentioned the Homeric gods, but others did not. Atomists and Sophists identified themselves as agnostics if not outright atheists, and in reaction Plato featured transcendent spiritual authority. However, Aristotle offered a physical cosmology justified by evidence from a variety of scientific fields. He also revisited many pre-Socratic assumptions by proposing that existence consists of mass in motion without temporal or spatial boundaries. In many ways his analysis anticipated Newton’s concept of gravity, Darwin’s concept of evolution, and Einstein’s concept of relativity. Aristotle’s follower Strato invented scientific experimentation. He also inspired the pursuit of science and advocated the rejection of all beliefs unconfirmed by science. Carneades in turn distorted Aristotelian logic to ridicule the god concept, and Lucretius proposed a grand secular cosmology in his epic De Rerum Natura. In the two dialogues, Academica and De Natura Deorum, Cicero provided a useful retrospective assessment of this entire movement. The Roman Empire and advent of Christianity effectively terminated Greek philosophy except for Platonism reinvented as stoicism. Widespread destruction of libraries eliminated most early secular texts, and the Inquisition played a major role in preventing secular inquiry. Aquinas later justified Aristotle in light of Christian doctrine, and secularism’s revival was postponed until the seventeenth century’s paradoxical reaction against his interpretation of Aristotle. Today it nevertheless remains possible to trace western civilization’s remarkable secular achievement to its initial breakthrough in ancient Greece. The purpose of this book is accordingly to trace the origin and development of its secular thought through close examination of texts that still exist today in light of Aristotle’s writings.

Author : John Burnet
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3986778195
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Greek philosophy written by John Burnet and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Greek philosophy John Burnet - When traditional view of the world & the customary rules of life had broken down, the Greeks began to feel the needs which philosophies of nature & of conduct seek to satisfy.Note on the 4th EditionPreface to 3rd EditionIntroductionNote on the SourcesTHE MILESIAN SCHOOLSCIENCE & RELIGIONHERAKLEITOS OF EPHESOSPARMENIDES OF ELEAEMPEDOKLES OF AKRAGASANAXAGORAS OF KLAZOMENAITHE PYTHAGOREANSTHE YOUNGER ELEATICSLEUKIPPOS OF MILETOSECLECTICISM & REACTION

Author : Kostas Kalimtzis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474237940
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Inquiry into the Philosophical Concept of Scholê written by Kostas Kalimtzis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the ancient Greek philosophical concept of scholê is usually translated as 'leisure', there is a vast difference between the two. Leisure, derived from Latin licere, has its roots in Roman otium and connotes the uses of free time in ways permitted by the status quo. Scholê is the actualization of mind and one's humanity within a republic that devotes its culture to making such a choice possible. This volume traces the background in Greek culture and the writings of Plato of a daring proposal presented by Aristotle, that scholê is a principle for political organization. The concept of scholê by and large did not survive Aristotle. To sharpen our understanding of scholê the book goes on to identify the concepts of leisure which we have inherited from the intellectuals of the Hellenistic and Roman empires and the early Church Fathers. Scholê also had its contrary ascholia – busyness – which Plato described as a social and psychological pathology and his analysis suggests why, due to these ills, current visions of a leisure society are highly unlikely.

Author : Chelsea C. Harry
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319178342
Total Pages : 89 pages
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Download or read book Chronos in Aristotle’s Physics written by Chelsea C. Harry and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-25 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a contribution both to Aristotle studies and to the philosophy of nature, and not only offers a thorough text based account of time as modally potentiality in Aristotle’s account, but also clarifies the process of “actualizing time” as taking time and looks at the implications of conceiving a world without actual time. It speaks to the resurgence of interest in Aristotle’s natural philosophy and will become an important resource for anyone interested in Aristotle’s theory of time, of its relationship to Aristotle’s larger project in the Physics, and to time’s place in the broader scope of Aristotelian natural science. Graduate students and scholars researching in this area especially will find the authors arguments provocative, a welcome addition to other recent publications on Aristotle’s Treatise on Time. ​