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100 _aSedley, David
245 _aCreationism and Its Critics in Antiquity
260 _aBerkeley, Los Angeles
_bUniversity of California Press
_c2007
300 _a269p
440 0 _aSather Classical Lectures;
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500 _aincludes index and biblioraphy
505 2 _aI / 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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