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Creationism and its critics in antiquity.
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ISBN: 9780520253643 0520253647 Year: 2007 Volume: 66 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press

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The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? Ancient Greeks and Romans famously disagreed on whether the cosmos was the product of design or accident. In this book, David Sedley examines this question and illuminates new historical perspectives on the pantheon of thinkers who laid the foundations of Western philosophy and science. Versions of what we call the "creationist" option were widely favored by the major thinkers of classical antiquity, including Plato, whose ideas on the subject prepared the ground for Aristotle's celebrated teleology. But Aristotle aligned himself with the anti-creationist lobby, whose most militant members--the atomists--sought to show how a world just like ours would form inevitably by sheer accident, given only the infinity of space and matter. This stimulating study explores seven major thinkers and philosophical movements enmeshed in the debate: Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, the atomists, Aristotle, and the Stoics.


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La levatrice del Platonismo : testo e sottotesto nel Teeteto di Platone.
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ISBN: 9788834320501 8834320506 Year: 2011 Volume: 123 Publisher: Milano Vita e pensiero

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Plato --- Socrates --- Plato. --- Socrate --- Plato - Theaetetus --- Sokrates


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Philosophical allegiance in the Greco-Roman world

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A new reading in the anonymus "Theaetetus" commentary (PBEROL. 9782 fragment D)

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Midwife of platonism : text and subtext in Plato's "Theaetetus"
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Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] : Oxford University Press,

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Les Académiciens. La renaissance du pyrrhonisme. III
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ISBN: 2080706438 9782080706430 Year: 2001 Volume: 643 Publisher: Paris : Garnier-Flammarion,


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Pyrrhonists, patricians, platonizers: Hellenistic philosophy in the period 155-86 BC : tenth symposium Hellenisticum.
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ISBN: 9788870885361 8870885364 Year: 2007 Volume: 47 Publisher: Napoli Bibliopolis

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Les philosophes hellénistiques.. 3, Les académiciens, la renaissance du pyrrhonisme
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ISBN: 2080706411 9782080706416 208070642X 2080706438 9782080706423 9782080706430 Year: 2001 Volume: 641-643 Publisher: Paris: Flammarion,

Les philosophes hellénistiques. 2 : Les stoïciens
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ISBN: 208070642X 9782080706423 Year: 2001 Volume: 642 Publisher: Paris Flammarion


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A free will : origins of the notion in ancient thought
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ISBN: 9780520272668 0520272668 9780520268487 0520268482 Year: 2012 Volume: 68 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,

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Where does the notion of free will come from? How and when did it develop, and what did that development involve? In Michael Frede's radically new account of the history of this idea, the notion of a free will emerged from powerful assumptions about the relation between divine providence, correctness of individual choice, and self-enslavement due to incorrect choice. Anchoring his discussion in Stoicism, Frede begins with Aristotle--who, he argues, had no notion of a free will--and ends with Augustine. Frede shows that Augustine, far from originating the idea (as is often claimed), derived most of his thinking about it from the Stoicism developed by Epictetus.

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