John Baird Callicott, John van Buren, Keith Wayne Brown Greek Natural Philosophy: The Presocratics and Their Importance for Environmental Philosophy 9781516528561

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Автор: John Baird Callicott, John van Buren, Keith Wayne Brown
Название: Greek Natural Philosophy: The Presocratics and Their Importance for Environmental Philosophy
ISBN: 9781516528561
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История западной философии

Западная философия: Античная: до 500 г.н.э.

ISBN-10: 1516528565
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 384
Вес: 0.76 кг.
Дата издания: 30.12.2017
Язык: English
Размер: 254 x 203 x 20
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Ключевые слова: Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500
Подзаголовок: The presocratics and their importance for environmental philosophy
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Greek Natural Philosophy presents the primary sources on the Presocratics in a straightforward way in order to tell a coherent story about the astonishing development of natural philosophy in ancient Greece and its relevance today.The book begins with historical influences on the birth of natural philosophy, especially literacy and the ecosystem services provided by the natural environment of ancient Greece. It argues that the individual philosophers’ thoughts about the nature of the cosmos, living things, humankind, and human culture were linked by a “diachronic dialectic of ideas.” Each philosopher’s speculations were subjected to a critique by the next generation who crafted more subtle theories.The dialectical transition is traced from the mythopoeic worldview of Hesiod to the rational worldview of Thales and his Milesian successors, followed by Xenophanes and Heraclitus, then Parmenides and his Eleatic successors, and the qualitative pluralisms of Anaxagoras and Empedocles. An entirely fresh interpretation is provided of the Atomists and later Pythagoreans, whose work culminated in the ideas upon which Galileo, Newton, and the other architects of modern science, continued to build. In the span of only two centuries, the Presocratics developed the basic principles of philosophy and natural science, ecology, mathematical astronomy, the atomic theory of matter, an inertial theory of motion, and the possibility that our solar system is only one of infinitely many scattered throughout infinite time and space.The concluding chapter traces natural philosophy through subsequent centuries until its abandonment in 20th century philosophy, leading to the moribund state of philosophy by the end of that century. The authors show how environmental philosophy represents a return to natural philosophy and a model for the revival of philosophy’s vigor and relevance in the 21st century.Greek Natural Philosophy is suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses in ancient Greek philosophy or in environmental philosophy, and will be of interest to scholars in these fields.
Дополнительное описание: Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

Greek Natural Philosophy: The Presocratics and Their Importance for Environmental Philosophy, John Baird Callicott, John van Buren, Keith Wayne Brown