Greek Cosmologists The Formation of the Atomic Theory and Its Earliest Critics

Name: Greek Cosmologists The Formation of the Atomic Theory and Its Earliest Critics
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ISBN: 9780521034975

ISBN-10: 0521034973

ISBN-13: 9780521034975

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Authors: David Furley, David Furley

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Furley's study presents a clear picture of the opposing views of the natural world and its contents as seen by philosophers and scientists in classical antiquity. On one side were the materialists whose world was mechanistic, evolutionary, and unbounded, lacking the focus of a natural center. The other side included teleologists, whose world was purposive, non-evolutionary, finite, and centrifocal. This volume takes the reader up to the criticisms of Plato and Aristotle. The second volume will examine Plato and Aristotle's own cosmology and follow the debate to the sixth century. Professor Furley has produced a history of the early views of the physical world whose scope makes this book of…

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List price: $52.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Preface



Two pictures of the world



The judgement of Socrates



The beginning in Miletus



Two philosophical critics: Heraclitus and Parmenides



Pythagoras, Parmenides, and later cosmology



Anaxagoras



Empedocles and the invention of elements



Later Eleatic critics



Leucippus and Democritus



The cosmos of the Atomists



The anthropology of the Atomists



Plato's criticisms of the materialists



Aristotle's criticisms of the materialists


Bibliography


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