Furley's study presents a clear picture of the opposing views of the natural world and its contents as seen by philosophers and scientists in classical antiquity. On one side were the materialists whose world was mechanistic, evolutionary, and unbounded, lacking the focus of a natural center. The other side included teleologists, whose world was purposive, non-evolutionary, finite, and centrifocal. This volume takes the reader up to the criticisms of Plato and Aristotle. The second volume will examine Plato and Aristotle's own cosmology and follow the debate to the sixth century. Professor Furley has produced a history of the early views of the physical world whose scope makes this book of major importance.
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A presentation of opposing views of the natural world as seen by philosophers and scientists in classical antiquity progresses up to those held by Plato and Aristotle in volume 1 of a two part study.
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The educational tradition of the Western half of the world has fairly recently adopted a new picture of the physical universe and man's place in it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Way of Truth, Diogenes Laertius, Closed World, Cosmic Problems, Near Eastern, Plato's Phaedo, Two Studies, Greek Atomists, Plato's Timaeus, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle's Physics, Jonathan Barnes, The Nature of the Child, Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Epicurean Atomists, Pillars of Hercules, Sextus Empiricus, Way of Seeming New!
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The educational tradition of the Western half of the world has fairly recently adopted a new picture of the physical universe and man's place in it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
centrifocal theory, indivisible magnitudes, reversing cycle, perceptible qualities, mortal kinds, true void Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Way of Truth, Diogenes Laertius, Closed World, Cosmic Problems, Near Eastern, Plato's Phaedo, Two Studies, Greek Atomists, Plato's Timaeus, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle's Physics, Jonathan Barnes, The Nature of the Child, Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Epicurean Atomists, Pillars of Hercules, Sextus Empiricus, Way of Seeming New!
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