Anaximander in Context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anaximander in Context write by Dirk L. Couprie. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Anaximander in Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Places the development of Anaximander's thought within social, political, cosmological, astronomical, and technological contexts.
Anaximander and the Architects
Anaximander and the Architects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anaximander and the Architects write by Robert Hahn. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Anaximander and the Architects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anaximander and the Architects opens a previously unexplored avenue into Presocratic philosophy—the technology of monumental architecture. The evidence, coming directly from sixth century B.C.E. building sites and bypassing Aristotle, shows how the architects and their projects supplied their Ionian communities with a sprouting vision of natural order governed by structural laws. Their technological innovations and design techniques formed the core of an experimental science and promoted a rational, not mythopoetical, discourse central to our understanding of the context in which early Greek philosophy emerged. Anaximander's prose book and his rationalizing mentality are illuminated in surprising ways by appeal to the ongoing, extraordinary projects of the archaic architects and their practical techniques.
Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology
Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology write by Charles H. Kahn. This book was released on 1994-01-01. Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through criticism and analysis of ancient traditions, Kahn reconstructs the pattern of Anaximander's thought using historical methods akin to the reconstructive techniques of comparative linguists.
Apeiron
Apeiron - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Apeiron write by Radim Kočandrle. This book was released on 2017-01-03. Apeiron available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers an innovative analysis of the Greek philosopher Anaximander’s work. In particular, it presents a completely new interpretation of the key word Apeiron, or boundless, offering readers a deeper understanding of his seminal cosmology and, with it, his unique conception of the origin of the universe. Anaximander traditionally applied Apeiron to designate the origin of everything. The authors’ investigation of the extant sources shows, however, that this common view misses the mark. They argue that instead of reading Apeiron as a noun, it should be considered an adjective, with reference to the term phusis (nature), and that the phrase phusis apeiros may express the boundless power of nature, responsible for all creation and growth. The authors also offer an interpretation of Anaximander's cosmogony from a biological perspective: each further step in the differentiation of the phenomenal world is a continuation of the original separation of a fertile seed. This new reading of the first written account of cosmology stresses the central role of the boundless power of nature. It provides philosophers, researchers, and students with a thought-provoking explanation of this early thinker's conception of generation and destruction in the universe.
The First Scientist
The First Scientist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The First Scientist write by Carlo Rovelli. This book was released on 2011. The First Scientist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Translated into English for the first time, an award-winning theoretical physicist discusses the theories of Anaximander, the sixth-century BC Greek philosopher, and examines the influence he had on scientific thinking in a historical and philosophical context.
