Creationism and its critics in antiquity

Creationism and its critics in antiquity

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The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? Ancient Greeks and Romans famously disagreed on whether the cosmos was the product of design or accident. In this boo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sedley, D. N.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007.
Series:Sather classical lectures ; v. 66.
Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
Subjects:
Intelligent design (Teleology)
Philosophy, Ancient.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • [ch]. 1. Anaxagoras
  • 1. The presocratic agenda
  • 2. Anaxagoras's cosmology
  • 3. The power of nous
  • 4. Sun and Moon
  • 5. Worlds and seeds
  • 6. Nous as creator
  • 7. Scientific creationism
  • Appendix : Anazagoras's theory of matter
  • [ch]. 2. Empedocles
  • 1. The cosmic cycle
  • 2. The double zoogony
  • 3. Creationist discourse
  • 4. Design and accident
  • Appendix 1 : The double zoogony revisited
  • Appendix 2 : The chronology of the cycle
  • Appendix 3 : Where in the cycle are we?
  • Appendix 4 : Lucretian testimony for Empedocles' zoogony
  • [ch]. 3. Socrates
  • 1. 1. Diogenes of Apollonia
  • 2. Socrates in Xenophon
  • 3. Socrates in Plato's Phaedo
  • 4. A historical synthesis
  • [ch]. 4. Plato
  • 1. The Phaedo myth
  • 2. Introducing the Timaeus
  • 3. An act of creation?
  • 4. Divine craftsmanship
  • 5. Is the world perfect?
  • 6. The origin of species
  • [ch]. 5. The atomists
  • 1. Democritus
  • 2. The Epicurean critique of creationism
  • 3. The Epicurean alternative to creationism
  • 4. Epicurean infinity
  • [ch]. 6. Aristotle
  • 1. God as paradigm
  • 2. The craft analogy
  • 3. Necessity
  • 4. Fortuitous outcomes
  • 5. Cosmic teleology
  • 6. Aristotle's Platonism
  • [ch]. 7. The stoics
  • 1. Stoicism
  • 2. A window on stoic theology
  • 3. Appropriating Socrates
  • 4. Appropriating Plato
  • 5. Whose benefit?
  • Epilogue : A Galenic perspective
  • Bibliography
  • Index locorum
  • General index.

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