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To think like God : Pythagoras and Parmenides, the origins of philosophy /
"To think like God focuses on the emergence of philosophy as a speculative science, tracing its origins to the Greek colonies of Southern Italy, from the late 6th century to mid-5th century B.C. Special attention is paid to the sage Pythagoras and his movement, the poet Xenophanes of Colophon,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Las Vegas, Nev. :
Parmenides Pub.,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1: Pythagoras
- The search for a way out
- The search for proof
- 2: The pythagoreans
- Tradition versus the historical account
- The pythagorean agenda
- The politics of pythagoreanism
- War and luxury
- The revolts against the pythagorean political elite
- Those who listen and those who learn
- 3: In want of a mathematics for the soul
- The source code of the universe
- The music of the spheres
- Numerology--deriving philosophy from number?
- 4: Pythagorizing versus philosophizing
- 5: Parmenides
- The lawmaker
- The poet's challenge and the lawgiver's response
- 6: The poem of parmenides
- A quick guide to the poem's ordering
- The poem, a translation
- 7: The poem's most difficult points explained
- What is the significance of the proem?
- "Esti" or "IS": the parmenidean object
- The IS as the universe: an olde misconception
- What does the concept of truth signify for parmenides?
- The question of IS NOT
- Doxa: opinion or appearance?
- Are there advantages to rearranging the fragments?
- *: Guidelines for an evidential account
- Delimiting the object of judgment
- Twelve provisos for the evidential account
- 9: Methods of proof and disproof
- Like according to like
- Sufficient reason, contradiction, and infinite regress
- 10: Irrationals, s and the perfect premise
- 11: Mind and universe: two realms, two separate approaches.