Mortal and Divine in Early Greek Epistemology

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Beschreibung

This book demonstrates that we need not choose between seeing so-called Presocratic thinkers as rational philosophers or as religious sages. In particular, it rethinks fundamentally the emergence of systematic epistemology and reflection on speculative inquiry in Hesiod, Xenophanes and Parmenides. Shaul Tor argues that different forms of reasoning, and different models of divine disclosure, play equally integral, harmonious and mutually illuminating roles in early Greek epistemology. Throughout, the book relates these thinkers to their religious, literary and historical surroundings. It is thus also, and inseparably, a study of poetic inspiration, divination, mystery initiation, metempsychosis and other early Greek attitudes to the relations and interactions between mortal and divine. The engagements of early philosophers with such religious attitudes present us with complex combinations of criticisms and creative appropriations. Indeed, the early milestones of philosophical epistemology studied here themselves reflect an essentially theological enterprise and, as such, one aspect of Greek religion.

Über den Autor

Shaul Tor is a Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy in the Departments of Classics and Philosophy at King's College London.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Rationality and irrationality, philosophy and religion; 2. Hesiodic epistemology; 3. Xenophanes on divine disclosure and mortal inquiry; Introduction to the chapters on Parmenides; 4. Why did Parmenides write Doxa?; 5. How could Parmenides have written Alêtheia?; 6. Retrospect and prospect; Appendix: The trajectory of the kouros' journey and eschatological topography in Parmenides: some inconclusive remarks.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Renaissance und Aufklärung
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9781107028166
ISBN-10:	1107028167
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Tor, Shaul
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	222 x 145 x 26 mm
Von/Mit:	Shaul Tor
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.04.2019
Gewicht:	0,66 kg