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The presocratics and the supernatural magic, philosophy and science in early Greece Andrew Gregory.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gregory, Andrew, 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pre-Socratic philosophers--Greece.
- Pre-Socratic philosophers.
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Supernatural.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York Bloomsbury 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines the relationship between magic, philosophy and the investigation of nature in presocratic Greece. Did the presocratic thinkers, often praised for their rejection of the supernatural, still believe in gods and the divine and the efficacy of magical practices? Did they use animism, astrology, numerology and mysticism in their explanations of the world? This book analyses the evidence in detail and argues that we need to look at each of these beliefs in context
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Natural and Supernatural
- The Literary and Philosophical Background
- Magic and Its Practice in Presocratic Greece
- Milesian Pantheism
- Xenophanes and the Drive Towards a Unitary God
- The Hippocratics and the Sacred Disease
- Empedocles
- The Pythagoreans
- Leucippus and Democritus
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- ISBN:
- 9781472504159
- 1472504151
- 9781472555847
- 1472555848
- 9781472504166
- 147250416X
- OCLC:
- 861538602
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