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Cosmic order and divine power : Pseudo-Aristotle, On the cosmos /

The treatise De mundo offers a cosmology in the Peripatetic tradition which subordinates what happens in the cosmos to the might of an omnipotent god. Thus the work is paradigmatic for the philosophical and religious concepts of the early imperial age, which offer points of contact with nascent Chri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Thom, Johan Carl, 1954- (Editor , Traductor), Aristotle
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Griego Antiguo
Publicado: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2014]
Colección:Sapere (Darmstadt, Germany) ; Bd. 23.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Text, translation and notes / Johan C. Thom
  • Didactic purpose and discursive strategies in On the cosmos / Clive Chandler
  • The geography of De mundo / Renate Burri
  • The cosmotheology of De mundo / Johan C. Thom
  • The reception of On the cosmos in ancient pagan philosophy / Andrew Smith
  • The concepts of __ and __ in De mundo and their parallels in Hellenistic-Jewish and Christian texts / Anna Tzvetkova-Glaser
  • Syriac and Arabic transmission of On the cosmos / Hidemi Takahashi
  • Possible echoes of De mundo in the Arabic-Islamic world : Christian, Islamic, and Jewish thinkers / Hans Daiber
  • Disputes over the authorship of De mundo between humanism and Altertumswissenschaft / Jill Kraye.