Anaximander and the architects : the contributions of Egyptian and Greek architectural technologies to the origins of Greek philosophy /
Bypassing Aristotle to look at evidence directly from the sixth century BCE, Hahn (philosophy, Southern Illinois U.-Carbondale) shows how the architects and their projects supplied their Ionian communities with a sprouting vision of natural order governed by structural laws. He argues that their tec...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2001.
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Colección: | SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Philosophy
- The Problem and the Three Tiers of Explanation
- The Conventional View and Its Discontents
- The New Contributing Thesis: Technology as Politics
- The Ionian Philosophers and Architects
- Fixing Anaximander's Date: The First Philosophical Book in Prose
- Archaic Prose Writing: Pherecydes' Cosmogony and Legal Inscriptions
- Prose in Archaic Architectural Treatises and the Community of Thales and Anaximander, Theodorus and Rhoikos, Chersiphron and Metagenes
- The New Connection: The Contribution of the Egyptian Architects to the Ionian Greek Architects of the Archaic Period
- An Overview of Monumental Temple Projects in Archaic Ionia
- The Meaning of the Temple: Design Choices
- The Techniques of the Ancient Architects
- The Evidence for Imagining in Plan or Aerial View
- The Evidence for Models
- The Theory of Proportions
- The Techniques of Anathyrosis and Empolion
- Anaximander's Techniques
- Architect, Philosopher, and the New Vision Supplied by the Application of Geometrical Techniques
- Homer's World Picture
- Hesiod's World Picture
- Anaximander's World Picture: The Plan or Aerial View
- Anaximander's World Picture: Three-dimensional Views
- The Side, Elevation, Oblique, and Axonometric Views
- Technology as Politics: the Origins of Greek Philosophy in Its Sociopolitical Context
- Re-Framing the New Narrative Account
- The Aristocratic Patrons of Archaic Temples
- Technology as Politics: The "Argument" for the Appropriation of Civic Authority.