Cosmology and Biology in Ancient Philosophy (eBook, PDF)

From Thales to Avicenna
Redaktion: Salles, Ricardo

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In antiquity living beings are inextricably linked to the cosmos as a whole. Ancient biology and cosmology depend upon one another and therefore a complete understanding of one requires a full account of the other. This volume addresses many philosophical issues that arise from this double relation. Does the cosmos have a soul of its own? Why? Is either of these two disciplines more basic than the other, or are they at the same explanatory level? What is the relationship between living things and the cosmos as a whole? If the cosmos is an animate intelligent being, what is the nature of its thoughts and actions? How do these relate to our own thoughts and actions? Do they pose a threat to our autonomy as subjects and agents? And what is the place of zoogony in cosmogony? A distinguished international team of contributors provides original essays discussing these questions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108870580
• Artikelnr.: 66182529

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The intersection of biology and cosmology in ancient
philosophy Ricardo Salles; 1. Souls and cosmos before Plato: five short
doxographical studies André Laks; 2. The ensouled cosmos in Plato's
Timaeus: biological science as a guide to cosmology? Barbara Sattler; 3.
Platonic 'desmology' and the body of the World Animal (Tim. 30c-34a)
Dimitri el Murr; 4. The world-soul takes command. The doctrine of the
world-soul in the Epinomis of Philip of Opus and in the Academy of Polemon
John Dillon; 5. Begotten and made: creation as cosmogony in Middle
Platonism George Boys-Stones; 6. The De Motu Animalium on the movement of
the heavens John M. Cooper; 7. Biology and cosmology in Aristotle James G.
Lennox; 8. Recapitulation theory and transcendental morphology in antiquity
James Wilberding; 9. The Stoics' empiricist model of divine thought George
Boys-Stones; 10. Why is the cosmos intelligent? Stoic cosmology and Plato,
Timaeus 30a2-c1 Ricardo Salles; 11. Cardiology and cosmology in
post-Chrysippean Stoicism Emmanuele Vimercati; 12. The agency of the world
Katja Maria Vogt; 13. God and the material world: biology and cosmology in
Galen's physiology R. J. Hankinson; 14. At the intersection of cosmology
and biology: Plotinus on nature Lloyd P. Gerson; 15. Is the heaven an
animal? Avicenna's celestial psychology between cosmology and biology
Tomasso Alpina.