Dimensions of 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 Dimensions of Apeiron write by Steven M. Rosen. This book was released on 2004-01-01. Dimensions of Apeiron available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the evolution of space and time from the apeiron —the spaceless, timeless chaos of primordial nature. Rosen examines Western culture’s effort to deny apeiron, and the critical need now to lift the repression on apeiron for the sake of human individuation.
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 . This book was released on 2002. Apeiron available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Idealization XI
Idealization XI - 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 Idealization XI write by Francesco Coniglione. This book was released on 2004. Idealization XI available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discussions about abstraction are so important and so profound that this topic can hardly be neglected. It has inevitably cropped up again in various periods of philosophical enquiry. Despite these ancient roots and after the great debate that characterised the empirical and rationalistic tradition, interest in the problem has unfortunately been absent in large measure from the mainstream of mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. It seems that there is a gap between the epistemological theorization, in which it is difficult to find new insights on the problem of abstraction, and the historical studies concerning the development of philosophical thought. Such studies, however, present a more fertile ground for such insights. Here the reader will find presented for the first time a collection of papers about the topic, considered from an historical point of view together with an awareness of the need for building a bridge between historical research and theoretical speculation. Accordingly the volume consists of both general overviews which sketch the signifcance and the fortunes of abstraction in science, philosophy and logic (the first part) and historical case studies which focus on abstraction in particular thinkers (the second part). This volume is of interest for both general philosophers and historians of philosophy.
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.
Plato's Cosmology and its Ethical Dimensions
Plato's Cosmology and its Ethical Dimensions - 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 Plato's Cosmology and its Ethical Dimensions write by Gabriela Roxana Carone. This book was released on 2005-10-31. Plato's Cosmology and its Ethical Dimensions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although a great deal has been written on Plato's ethics, his cosmology has not received so much attention in recent times and its importance for his ethical thought has remained underexplored. By offering accounts of Timaeus, Philebus, Politicus and Laws X, the book reveals a strongly symbiotic relation between the cosmic and human sphere. It is argued that in his late period Plato presents a picture of an organic universe, endowed with structure and intrinsic value, which both urges our respect and calls for our responsible intervention. Humans are thus seen as citizens of a university that can provide a context for their flourishing even in the absence of good political institutions. The book sheds light on many intricate metaphysical issues in late Plato and brings out the close connections between his cosmology and the development of his ethics.
