Early Greek Philosophies of Nature

by Andrew Gregory

Book Overview

This book examines the philosophies of nature of the early Greek thinkers and argues that a significant and thoroughgoing shift is required in our understanding of them. In contrast with the natural world of the earliest Greek literature, often the result of arbitrary divine causation, in the work of early Ionian philosophers we see the idea of a cosmos: ordered worlds where there is complete regularity. How was this order generated and maintained...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350080977
• ISBN13: 9781350080973
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"