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Plutarch's science of natural problems : a study with commentary on Quaestiones Naturales /
In his 'Quaestiones naturales', Plutarch unmistakeably demonstrates a huge interest in the world of natural phenomena. The work of this famous intellectual and philosopher from Chaeronea consists of forty-one natural problems that address a wide variety of questions, sometimes rather pecul...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leuven :
Leuven University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Plutarchea hypomnemata.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- ‎Contents; ‎Acknowledgements; ‎PROLOGUE; ‎Plutarch and the history of science: the case of Quaestiones naturales; ‎1. Plato, Plutarch and scientific infancy; ‎2. Date and chronology of Quaestiones naturales: a 'life's work'?; ‎3. The value of Plutarch's natural problems; ‎4. Classical philology and the petrification of science; ‎5. Status quaestionis; ‎6. Note on translations and abbreviations; ‎General abbreviations; ‎Plutarch's works; ‎Moralia; ‎Vitae; ‎PART I. INTRODUCTION; ‎1. Problems, problems, problems (and Aristotelian precedents)
- ‎1.1. Quaestiones naturales and the Aristotelian genre and tradition of natural problems‎1. Preliminary remarks on Plutarch's Naturwissenschaft; ‎2. Quaestiones naturales: the work of a Plutarchus Aristotelicus?; ‎3. The genre of problems and the Aristotelian tradition of natural problems; ‎4. Internal organisation of Plutarch's natural problems (microstructure); ‎5. Coherent reading in Quaestiones naturales and convivales (macrostructure); ‎6. The title and its programmatic value; ‎1.2. Problems related to Plutarch's scientific discourse
- ‎1. Trifles unworthy of Plutarch? Some remarks on authenticity‎2. The rhetoric of scientific discourse according to Plutarch; ‎3. The problem of style; ‎4. The problem of morality; ‎5. A 'generic' solution; ‎6. Conclusion and new questions; ‎2. The position of Quaestiones naturales in the corpus Plutarcheum; ‎2.1. Scientific traits in the corpus Plutarcheum; ‎1. Intellectual and literary interest of natural phenomena; ‎2. Cluster analysis in Quaestiones naturales; ‎3. Scientific digressions in the Vitae; ‎4. Indirect references to Quaestiones naturales
- ‎2.2. A comparative study of Quaestiones naturales and Quaestiones convivales‎1. The level of elocutio; ‎2. The level of dispositio; ‎3. The level of inventio; ‎2.3. Hypomnematic text genetics of Quaestiones naturales and Quaestiones convivales; ‎1. Historicity and fiction in Quaestiones convivales; ‎2. Problems and personal notes; ‎3. Zetetic autonomy in Quaestiones naturales; ‎2.4. Opening up Plutarch's zetetic archive; ‎1. The issue of publication: problems as functional literature; ‎2. Classification and overlap; ‎3. Conclusion and new questions