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Ancient Greek Cosmogony (Hardcover)
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Ancient Greek Cosmogony (Hardcover)
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"Ancient Greek Cosmogony" is the first detailed and comprehensive
account of ancient Greek theories of the origins of the world. It
covers the period from 800 BC to 600 AD, beginning with myths
concerning the creation of the world. It covers the cosmogonies of
all the major Greek and Roman thinkers, as well as the debate
between Greek philosophical cosmogony and early Christian views. It
argues that Greeks formulated many of the perennial problems of
philosophical cosmogony and produced philosophically and
scientifically interesting answers. The atomists argued that our
world was one among many worlds, and came about by chance. Plato
argued that our world is unique, and is the product of
design.Empedocles and the Stoics, in quite different ways, argued
that there was an unending cycle whereby our world is generated,
destroyed and generated again. Aristotle on the other hand argued
that there was no such thing as cosmogony, and our world has always
existed. Reactions to these ideas and developments of them are
traced through Hellenistic philosophy and the debates in early
Christianity on whether God created the world from nothing or from
some pre-existing chaos. This books also deals with the related
issues of the origins of life and of the elements for the ancient
Greeks, and looks at how views of how the cosmos will come to an
end. It argues that there were several interesting debates between
Greek philosophers on the fundamental principles of cosmogony, and
that these debates were influential on the development of Greek
philosophy and science.
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