Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-31817-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 492 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 850 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to Philosophy / Brill's Companions to Philosophy: Ancient Philosophy

In Brill's Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought, contributions by Gottfried Heinemann, Andrew Gregory, Justin Habash, Daniel W. Graham, Oliver Primavesi, Owen Goldin, Omar D. Álvarez Salas, Christopher Kurfess, Dirk L. Couprie, Tiberiu Popa, Timothy J. Crowley, Liliana Carolina Sánchez Castro, Iakovos Vasiliou, Barbara Sattler, Rosemary Wright, and a foreword by Patricia Curd explore the influences of early Greek science (6-4th c. BCE) on the philosophical works of Plato, Aristotle, and the Hippocratics.

Rather than presenting an unified narrative, the volume supports various ways to understand the development of the concept of nature, the emergence of science, and the historical context of topics such as elements, principles, soul, organization, causation, purpose, and cosmos in ancient Greek philosophy.

"Overall, this is a very useful collection of articles to be recommended warmly."

-Benjamin Harriman, Edinburgh University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2021.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Harry, Chelsea C.

Habash, Justin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Naturphilosophie, Philosophie und Evolution
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Vorsokratische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Some Thoughts on Interpreting the Presocratics and Their Reception

Oxford Classical Dictionary – Abbreviations List

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

PART 1

Reception: Methodology and Grounding Concepts

1 Peri Phuseôs: Physics, Physicists, and Phusis in Aristotle

Gottfried Heinemann

2 Plato’s Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy

Andrew D. Gregory

3 Presocratic Echoes: The Reception of Purposive Nature in Classical Greek Thought

Justin Habash

4 The Reception of Early Greek Astronomy

Daniel W. Graham

PART 2

Hidden Reception: Exploring Sources and Developing Themes

5 Pythagorean Ratios in Empedocles’ Physics

Oliver Primavesi

6 Pythagoreanism and the History of Demonstration

Owen Goldin

7 Aristotle’s Outlook on Pythagoras and the (So-Called) Pythagoreans

Omar D. Álvarez Salas

8 Eleatic Archai in Aristotle

A Dependence on Theophrastus’ Natural History?

Christopher Kurfess

9 The Reception of Presocratic Flat Earth Cosmology in Aristotle, the Doxography, and Beyond

Dirk L. Couprie

10 Elements and Their Forms

The Fortunes of a Presocratic Idea

Tiberiu Popa

11 Aristotle, Empedocles, and the Reception of the Four Elements Hypothesis

Timothy J. Crowley

12 The Aristotelian Reception Of Heraclitus’ Conception of the Soul

Liliana Carolina Sánchez Castro

13 Mixing Minds: Anaxagoras and Plato’s Phaedo

Iakovos Vasiliou

14 Platonic Reception

Atomism and the Atomists in Plato’s Timaeus

Barbara Sattler

15 Presocratic Cosmology and Platonic Myth

Rosemary Wright

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Chelsea C. Harry, Ph.D. (2013), Duquesne University, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. She has published articles, reviews, and translations on natural philosophy, including the monograph 'Chronos in Aristotle’s Physics: On the Nature of Time' (Springer, 2015).

Justin Habash, Ph.D. (2016), Duquesne University, is Assistant Dean for Teaching and Learning in the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University. He has published articles on early Greek nature philosophy.