TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sedley, David
AU  - Sedley,David
TI  - Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity
SN  - 9780520253643
U1  - N56 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Berkeley, Los Angeles
PB  - University of California Press
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; I / ANAXAGORAS  1.	The Presocratic agenda  2.	Anaxagoras`s cosmology  3.	The power of nous  4.	Sun and moon  5.	Worlds and seeds  6.	Nous as creator  7.	Scientific creationism  Appendix. Anaxagoras`s theory of matter  II / EMPEDOCLES  1.    The cosmic cycle  2.    The double zoogony  3.    Creationist discourse  4.    Design and accident  Appendix i. The double zoogony revisited  Appendix 2. The chronology of the cycle  Appendix 3. Where in the cycle are we ?  Appendix 4. A Lucretian testimony for Empedocles` zoogony  III / SOCRATES  1.    Diogenes of Apollonia  2.    Socrates in Xenophon  3.    Socrates in Plato`s Phaedo  4.    A historical synthesis  IV / PLATO  1.	The Phaedo myth  2.	Introducing the Timaeus  3.	An act of creation?  4.	Divine craftsmanship  5.	Is the world perfect?  6.	The origin of species  V / THE ATOMISTS  1.    Democritus  2.    The Epicurean critique of creationism  3.    The Epicurean alternative to creationism  4.    Epicurean infinity  VI / ARISTOTLE  1.	God as paradigm  2.	The craft analogy  3.	Necessity  4.	Fortuitous outcomes  5.	Cosmic teleology  6.	Aristotle`s Platonism  VII / THE STOICS   i.    Stoicism  2.    A window on Stoic theology  3-    Appropriating Socrates  4-    Appropriating Plato  5-    Whose benefit?
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