Explaining the Cosmos : The Ionian Tradition of Scientific Philosophy

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Explaining the Cosmos is a major reinterpretation of Greek scientific thought before Socrates. Focusing on the scientific tradition of philosophy, Daniel Graham argues that Presocratic philosophy is not a mere patchwork of different schools and styles of thought. Rather, there is a discernible and u...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Graham, Daniel W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Science, Ancient.
Science.
Philosophy, Ancient.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
Philosophie ancienne.
Sciences anciennes.
Sciences > Grece > Histoire.
Science > Greece > History.
Greece.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Explaining the Cosmos is a major reinterpretation of Greek scientific thought before Socrates. Focusing on the scientific tradition of philosophy, Daniel Graham argues that Presocratic philosophy is not a mere patchwork of different schools and styles of thought. Rather, there is a discernible and unified Ionian tradition that dominates Presocratic debates. Graham rejects the common interpretation of the early Ionians as "material monists" and also the view of the later Ionians as desperately trying to save scientific philosophy from Parmenides' criticisms. In Graham's view, Parmenide.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (368 pages).
ISBN:9781400827459

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