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Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity (Paperback)
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Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity (Paperback)
Series: Sather Classical Lectures, 66
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The 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.
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