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Book On sophistical refutations   on coming to be and passing away   on the cosmos

Download or read book On sophistical refutations on coming to be and passing away on the cosmos written by Aristotle and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On Sophistical Refutations   On Coming to be and Passing away   On the Cosmos

Download or read book On Sophistical Refutations On Coming to be and Passing away On the Cosmos written by Aristoteles and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On sophistical refutations  and  On coming to be and passing away

Download or read book On sophistical refutations and On coming to be and passing away written by Aristotle and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On Sophistical Refutations

Download or read book On Sophistical Refutations written by Aristotle and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Forgotten Ancient Commentaries on Aristotle   s    Sophistical Refutations

Download or read book Forgotten Ancient Commentaries on Aristotle s Sophistical Refutations written by Victor Gysembergh and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On sophistical refutations   On coming to be and passing away   On the cosmos

Download or read book On sophistical refutations On coming to be and passing away On the cosmos written by Aristotele and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Natural Philosophy Epitomised  Books 8 11 of Gregor Reisch s Philosophical pearl  1503

Download or read book Natural Philosophy Epitomised Books 8 11 of Gregor Reisch s Philosophical pearl 1503 written by Sachiko Kusukawa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregor Reisch's The Philosophical pearl (Margarita Philosophica), first published in 1503 and republished 11 times in the sixteenth century, was the first extensive printed text which discussed the disciplines taught at university to achieve widespread dissemination. This distinguishes it from printed editions of individual texts of Aristotle and other authorities. It is presented as a dialogue between master and pupil, covering the seven liberal arts, natural philosophy and moral philosophy, and with illustrations throughout. It has received remarkably little attention in its own right as a work of education which helped shape the world view of sixteenth-century educated men. Its author was a Carthusian monk. This volume presents an edited translation and an extensive introduction, of the four books which deal with natural philosophy - the predecessor of modern science. These books clearly show the extent to which for Reisch the study of nature was still primarily undertaken for Christian ends. Not only was nature studied as God's creation, but the study of the soul (a central part of natural philosophy pursued on Aristotelian lines) and its fate was here completely integrated with the salvation or damnation of the individual Christian, as taught in the Bible and by the church fathers, especially Augustine. Natural philosophy for Reisch was a discipline which was as concerned with God and the Bible as it was with Nature and Aristotle.

Book Clement and Scriptural Exegesis

Download or read book Clement and Scriptural Exegesis written by H. Clifton Ward and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How might one describe early Christian exegesis? This question has given rise to a significant reassessment of patristic exegetical practice in recent decades, and H. Clifton Ward makes a new contribution to this reappraisal of patristic exegesis against the background of ancient Greco-Roman education. In tracing the practices of literary analysis and rhetorical memory in the ancient sources, Clement and Scriptural Exegesis argues that there were two modes of archival thinking at the heart of the ancient exegetical enterprise: the grammatical archive, a repository of the textual practices learned from the grammarian, and the memorial archive, the constellations of textual memories from which meaning is constructed. In a new treatment of the theological exegesis of Clement of Alexandria-the first study of its kind in English scholarship-this study suggests that an assessment of the reading practices that Clement employs from these two ancient archives reveals his deep commitment to scriptural interpretation as the foundation of a theological imagination. Clement employs various textual practices from the grammatical archive to navigate the spectrum between the clarity and obscurity of Scripture, resulting in the striking conclusion that the figurative referent of Scripture is one twofold mystery, bound up in the incarnation of Christ and the higher knowledge of the divine life. This twofold scriptural mystery is discovered in an act of rhetorical invention as Clement reads Scripture to uncover the constellations of texts-about God, Christ, and humanity-that frame its entire narrative.

Book Uncountable

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Nirenberg
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2024-05-09
  • ISBN : 0226828360
  • Pages : 429 pages

Download or read book Uncountable written by David Nirenberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from math to literature to philosophy, Uncountable explains how numbers triumphed as the basis of knowledge—and compromise our sense of humanity. Our knowledge of mathematics has structured much of what we think we know about ourselves as individuals and communities, shaping our psychologies, sociologies, and economies. In pursuit of a more predictable and more controllable cosmos, we have extended mathematical insights and methods to more and more aspects of the world. Today those powers are greater than ever, as computation is applied to virtually every aspect of human activity. Yet, in the process, are we losing sight of the human? When we apply mathematics so broadly, what do we gain and what do we lose, and at what risk to humanity? These are the questions that David and Ricardo L. Nirenberg ask in Uncountable, a provocative account of how numerical relations became the cornerstone of human claims to knowledge, truth, and certainty. There is a limit to these number-based claims, they argue, which they set out to explore. The Nirenbergs, father and son, bring together their backgrounds in math, history, literature, religion, and philosophy, interweaving scientific experiments with readings of poems, setting crises in mathematics alongside world wars, and putting medieval Muslim and Buddhist philosophers in conversation with Einstein, Schrödinger, and other giants of modern physics. The result is a powerful lesson in what counts as knowledge and its deepest implications for how we live our lives.

Book Reconsidering Creation Ex Nihilo in Genesis 1

Download or read book Reconsidering Creation Ex Nihilo in Genesis 1 written by Nathan J. Chambers and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a broad consensus among biblical scholars that creation ex nihilo (from nothing) is a late Hellenistic concept with little inherent connection to Genesis 1 and other biblical creation texts. In this book, Nathan J. Chambers forces us to reconsider the question, arguing in favor of reading this chapter of the Bible in terms of ex nihilo creation and demonstrating that there is a sound basis for the early Christian development of the doctrine. Drawing on the theology of Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas, Chambers considers what the ex nihilo doctrine means and does in classical Christian dogma. He examines ancient Near Eastern cosmological texts that provide a potential context for reading Genesis 1. Recognizing the distance between the possible historical and theological frameworks for interpreting the text, he illuminates how this doctrine developed within early Christian thought as a consequence of the church’s commitment to reading Genesis 1 as part of Christian Scripture. Through original close readings of the chapter that engage critically with the work of Jon Levenson, Hermann Gunkel, and Brevard Childs, Chambers demonstrates that, far from precluding interpretive possibilities, reading Genesis 1 in terms of creation from nothing opens up a variety of interpretive avenues that have largely been overlooked in contemporary biblical scholarship. Timely and innovative, this book makes the case for a new (or recovered) framework for reading Genesis 1 that will appeal to biblical studies scholars and seminarians.

Book Muses of One Mind

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  • Author : Wesley Trimpi
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2009-11-01
  • ISBN : 1608991555
  • Pages : 435 pages

Download or read book Muses of One Mind written by Wesley Trimpi and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing how ancient discussions of literature borrowed their descriptive terms from mathematical, philosophical, and rhetorical disciplines, Wesley Trimpi shows that when any one of these three types of discourse was sacrificed to one or both of the other two, the resulting imbalance proved destructive to literary discourse. Preoccupation with exhortatory (rhetorical) intention reduced literary works to displays of eloquence or ideology; preoccupation with cognitive (philosophical) intention led to didacticism; and preoccupation with formal (mathematical) excellence resulted in "aesthetic" expression for its own sake. In tracing the relationship of the three disciplines to literary discourse through the Middle Ages, this work diagnosis the increase of such reductive preoccupations after the Neoplatoic reconstruction of classical literary theory. Since 1600 these imbalances have continued to exist, obscured by proliferating and competing "theories" and "methods" of literary interpretation. Taking theoria in the ancient sense of "inclusive observation," Professor Trimpi points to an alternative to contemporary critical orthodoxies.

Book Aristotle and the Animals

Download or read book Aristotle and the Animals written by Claudia Zatta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a novel approach to Aristotle’s zoology, this study looks at animals as creatures of nature (physis) and reveals a scientific discourse that, in response to his predecessors, exiles logos as reason and pursues the logos intrinsic to animals’ bodies, empowering them to sense the world and live. The volume explores Aristotle’s conception of animals through a discussion of his ad hoc methodology to study them, including the pertinence of the soul to such a study, and the rise of zoology as a branch of natural philosophy. For Aristotle, animal life stems from the body in the space of existence and revolves around sensation, which is entwined with pleasure, pain, and desire. Lack of human reason is irrelevant to an understanding of the richness of animal life and cognition. In sum, the reader will acquire knowledge of the "animal as such," which lay at the core of Aristotle’s agenda and required a study of its own, separate from plants and the elements. This book is intended for students of the history of science, ancient biology, and philosophy and all those who, from different fields, are interested in animal studies and the human-animal relation.

Book Ancient Meteorology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Liba Taub
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2004-02-24
  • ISBN : 113471775X
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Ancient Meteorology written by Liba Taub and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-02-24 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind in English looks at a wide range and diversity of literature and studies Greek and Roman approaches to the broad discipline, which in classical antiquity included weather, earthquakes and comets amongst more.

Book 1543 and All That

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  • Author : G. Freeland
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-11-09
  • ISBN : 9401594783
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book 1543 and All That written by G. Freeland and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-09 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and social studies of science. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Seien ce aims to provide a distinctive publication of essays on a connected outlet for their work. Each volume comprises a group theme, edited by an Australian or a New Zealander with special expertise in that particular area. In each volume, a majority of the contributors is from Australia or New Zealand. Contributions from elsewhere are by no means ruled out, however, and are indeed actively encouraged wherever appropriate to the balance of the volume in question. Earlier volumes in the series have been welcomed for significantly advancing the discussion of the topics they have dealt with. I believe that the present volume will be greeted equally enthusiastically by readers in many parts of the world. R. W Horne General Editor Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science ix LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Frontispiece. Andreas Vesalius, Sixth Plate ofthe Muscles, woodcut, designed by Jan Steven van Kalkar, from De humani corporis fabrica (Basel, 1543). (Photo. Scientific Illustration; repr. by kind permission of the University of New South Wales Library. ) In: GUY FREELAND, 'Introduction: In Praise of Toothing-Stones' Fig. 1. Michael Esson, Vesalian Interpretation 3 (1992). (Repr. by kind permission ofthe Artist. ) Fig. 2. Reliefs, University of Padua.

Book Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy

Download or read book Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy written by Myles Burnyeat and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects important papers on various key issues in Plato and Aristotle and on the early history of Greek optics.

Book Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics

Download or read book Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics written by Abraham Jacob Greenstine and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the ancient inquiries into the nature of things, contemporary continental realism and materialism, from Deleuze to the Speculative Realists, embraces a commitment to investigate beings, without subordinating it to analyses of language, consciousness, texts or the social. This pensée brute, traditionally known as metaphysics, dares to question the one and the many, the potential and the actual, the material and immaterial and the world itself. This apparent kinship is not merely thematic, since contemporary thinkers explicitly and repeatedly return to the texts and figures of the Greco-Roman world. In this volume, leading philosophers address these varied, volatile, and novel interactions and themselves contribute to reconceiving and redeploying the problems of ancient metaphysics. Alongside this are 2 original and previously unpublished translations of essays by Gilles Deleuze and Pierre Aubenque.