Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical

To Think Like God focuses on the emergence of philosophy as a speculative science, tracing its origins to the Greek colonies of Southern Italy, from the late 6th century to mid-5th century B.C. Special attention is paid to the sage Pythagoras and his movement, the poet Xenophanes of Colophon, and the lawmaker Parmenides of Elea. In their own ways, each thinker held that true insight, whether as wisdom or certainty, belonged not to mortal human beings but to the gods....

By taking the reader back to the Greek colonies of Southern Italy more than 500 years B.C., the author, with unparalleled insight, tells the story of the Pythagorean quest for otherwordly konwledge -- a tale of cultism, political conspiracies, and bloody uprisings that eventually culminate in tragic failure. The emerging hero is...

GREEK PHILOSOPHY: From Thales to the Cynics is a masterpiece of brief exposition. Without fanfare, it explains the concepts of the ancient Greek philosophers clearly and concisely. Starting with Thales and the School of Miletus, it presents the concepts of the Pythagoreans, the Eleatics, the Atomists, the Sophists, Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, the Skeptics, the Epicureans and the Cynics. From the pre-Socratics through the major developments of main stream Greek Philosophy it outlines the rise of the thought processes that have defined Western Civilization.

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How did the Ancient Greek Atomists come to assume the existence of atoms, and how did they understand their indivisibility? These are the most difficult questions facing researchers into Atomism in Classical Antiquity, and it is these questions that Laura Gemelli addresses in the present study. She re-examines the Ancients' tradition from a new perspective, starting from the influence that academic atomism and the attendant problems and concepts had on Aristotle's interpretation of ancient Atomism.
This hitherto neglected perspective leads to a critical revision of generally accepted...

Schellings "Philosophie der Mythologie" ist Teil seiner positiven Philosophie, mit der er Hegel zu uberwinden sucht. Sein neuer Theorietyp weist sich dadurch aus, dass er Religion nicht immer schon vom Logos aus denkt. Damit kritisiert er insbesondere Hegels Allegorese des Mythos, die in diesem nur Logos in der Form der Unmittelbarkeit zu erkennen vermag. Daraus folgen wichtige Modifikationen auf dem Gebiet der Metaphysik. Gegen Hegels Vollendung der Autonomie eines absoluten Subjekts geht Schelling auf die antike Ontonomie zuruck, die er ihrerseits aus der Theonomie des mythologischen...