Brill's companion to the reception of presocratic natural philosophy in later classical thought / edited by Chelsea C. Harry and Justin Habash.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harry, Chelsea C., editor.

Habash, Justin, editor.

E.J. Brill (Firm)

Series:

Brill companions to philosophy. Ancient philosophy ; volume 6.

Brill companions to philosophy. Ancient philosophy, 2588-7823 ; volume 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Ancient.

Science, Ancient--History.

Science, Ancient.

Pre-Socratic philosophers.

Philosophy of nature.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020].

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Explores both explicit and hidden influences of Presocratic (6-4th c. BCE) early scientific concepts, such as nature, elements, principles, soul, organization, causation, purpose, and cosmos in Platonic, Aristotelian, and Hippocratic philosophy.

Contents:

Part 1 Reception: Methodology and Grounding Concepts

1 Peri Phuseôs: Physics, Physicists, and Phusis in Aristotle p. 13 / Gottfried Heinemann

2 Plato's Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy p. 44 / Andrew D. Gregory

3 Presocratic Echoes: The Reception of Purposive Nature in Classical Greek Thought p. 71 / Justin Habash

4 The Reception of Early Greek Astronomy p. 91 / Daniel W. Graham

Part 2 Hidden Reception: Exploring Sources and Developing Themes

5 Pythagorean Ratios in Empedocles' Physics p. 113 / Oliver Primavesi

6 Pythagoreanism and the History of Demonstration p. 193 / Owen Goldin

7 Aristotle's Outlook on Pythagoras and the (So-Called) Pythagoreans p. 221 / Omar D. Álvarez Salas

8 Eleatic Archai in Aristotle: A Dependence on Theophrastus' Natural History? p. 261 / Christopher Kurfess

9 The Reception of Presocratic Flat Earth Cosmology in Aristotle, the Doxography, and Beyond p. 289 / Dirk L. Couprie

10 Elements and Their Forms: The Fortunes of a Presocratic Idea p. 323 / Tiberiu Popa

11 Aristotle, Empedocles, and the Reception of the Four Elements Hypothesis p. 352 / Timothy J. Crowley

12 The Aristotelian Reception Of Heraclitus' Conception of the Soul p. 377 / Liliana Carolina Sánchez Castro

13 Mixing Minds: Anaxagoras and Plato's Phaedo p. 404 / Iakovos Vasiliou

14 Platonic Reception - Atomism and the Atomists in Plato's Timaeus p. 429 / Barbara Sattler

15 Presocratic Cosmology and Platonic Myth p. 453 / Rosemary Wright.

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

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Online version: Brill's companion to the reception of presocratic natural philosophy in later classical thought

ISBN:

9789004443358

9004443355

Publisher Number:

40030397620

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