Cosmic Order and Divine Power : Pseudo-Aristotle, On the Cosmos Hardback
Edited by Johan C. Thom
Part of the Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia series
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The treatise De mundo (On the Cosmos), dated around the 1st century BCE, offers a cosmology in the Peripatetic tradition which draws also on Platonic and Stoic thought and subordinates what happens in the cosmos to the might of an omnipotent god.
Thus the work is paradigmatic for the philosophical and religious concepts of the early imperial age, which offer points of contact with nascent Christianity.
In line with the aims of the SAPERE series, this volume on De mundo is explicitly interdisciplinary by nature, bringing together contributions from scholars from a broad spectrum of disciplines and specialisations which focus on specific topics, each from its own disciplinary perspective.
The volume contains a Greek text and translation of De mundo as well as interpretive essays on the language and style, geography, cosmotheology and the reception in or possible influence of De mundo in various intellectual traditions.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)
- Publication Date:18/09/2014
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- Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)
- Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
- History: earliest times to present day
- Ancient history: to c 500 CE
- History of Western philosophy
- Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500
- Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology
- Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
- Philosophy of mind
- ISBN:9783161528095
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)
- Publication Date:18/09/2014
-
Category:
- Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)
- Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
- History: earliest times to present day
- Ancient history: to c 500 CE
- History of Western philosophy
- Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500
- Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology
- Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
- Philosophy of mind
- ISBN:9783161528095
