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050	0	0	_aBD 581 _b.S377 2007
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100	1		_aSedley, D. N.
245	1	0	_aCreationism and its critics in antiquity / _cDavid Sedley.
260			_aBerkeley : _bUniversity of California Press, _c�2007.
300			_axvii, 269 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aSather classical lectures ; _vv. 66
490	1		_aThe Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 245-255) and indexes.
505	0	0	_tAcknowledgments -- _tPreface -- _g[ch]. 1. _tAnaxagoras -- _g1. _tThe presocratic agenda -- _g2. _tAnaxagoras's cosmology -- _g3. _tThe power of nous -- _g4. _tSun and Moon -- _g5. _tWorlds and seeds -- _g6. _tNous as creator -- _g7. _tScientific creationism -- _tAppendix : Anazagoras's theory of matter -- _g[ch]. 2. _tEmpedocles -- _g1. _tThe cosmic cycle -- _g2. _tThe double zoogony -- _g3. _tCreationist discourse -- _g4. _tDesign and accident -- _tAppendix 1 : The double zoogony revisited -- _tAppendix 2 : The chronology of the cycle -- _tAppendix 3 : Where in the cycle are we? -- _tAppendix 4 : Lucretian testimony for Empedocles' zoogony -- _g[ch]. 3. _tSocrates -- _g1. _t1. _tDiogenes of Apollonia -- _g2. _tSocrates in Xenophon -- _g3. _tSocrates in Plato's Phaedo -- _g4. _tA historical synthesis -- _g[ch]. 4. _tPlato -- _g1. _tThe Phaedo myth -- _g2. _tIntroducing the Timaeus -- _g3. _tAn act of creation? -- _g4. _tDivine craftsmanship -- _g5. _tIs the world perfect? -- _g6. _tThe origin of species -- _g[ch]. 5. _tThe atomists -- _g1. _tDemocritus -- _g2. _tThe Epicurean critique of creationism -- _g3. _tThe Epicurean alternative to creationism -- _g4. _tEpicurean infinity -- _g[ch]. 6. _tAristotle -- _g1. _tGod as paradigm -- _g2. _tThe craft analogy -- _g3. _tNecessity -- _g4. _tFortuitous outcomes -- _g5. _tCosmic teleology -- _g6. _tAristotle's Platonism -- _g[ch]. 7. _tThe stoics -- _g1. _tStoicism -- _g2. _tA window on stoic theology -- _g3. _tAppropriating Socrates -- _g4. _tAppropriating Plato -- _g5. _tWhose benefit? -- _tEpilogue : A Galenic perspective -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex locorum -- _tGeneral index.
520			_aThe 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.
650		0	_aIntelligent design (Teleology)
650		0	_aPhilosophy, Ancient.
830		0	_aSather classical lectures.
830		0	_aJoan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
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