Reconstructing Empedocles' Thought
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2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-39257-0 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-39257-0 (ISBN)
Argues for viewing Empedocles' work as a unified whole of religion and physics by showing how rebirth is a positive doctrine which underlies his cosmic system. Essential for all scholars of early Greek philosophy, but will also appeal to those of epic poetry, Plato and Pythagoras studies, and ancient religion.
To understand Empedocles' thought, one must view his work as a unified whole of religion and physics. Only a few interpreters, however, recognise rebirth as a positive doctrine within Empedocles' physics and attempt to reconcile its details with the cosmological account. This study shows how rebirth underlies Empedocles' cosmic system, being a structuring principle of his physics. It reconstructs the proem to his physical poem and then shows that claims to disembodied existence, individual identity and personal survival of death(s) prove central to his physics; that knowledge of the cosmos is the path to escape rebirth; that purifications are essential to comprehending the world and changing one's being, and that the cosmic cycle, with its ethical import, is the ideal backdrop for Empedocles' doctrine of rebirth. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
To understand Empedocles' thought, one must view his work as a unified whole of religion and physics. Only a few interpreters, however, recognise rebirth as a positive doctrine within Empedocles' physics and attempt to reconcile its details with the cosmological account. This study shows how rebirth underlies Empedocles' cosmic system, being a structuring principle of his physics. It reconstructs the proem to his physical poem and then shows that claims to disembodied existence, individual identity and personal survival of death(s) prove central to his physics; that knowledge of the cosmos is the path to escape rebirth; that purifications are essential to comprehending the world and changing one's being, and that the cosmic cycle, with its ethical import, is the ideal backdrop for Empedocles' doctrine of rebirth. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
CHIARA FERELLA is a research associate in the project 'Early Concepts of Humans and Nature: Universal, Specific, Interchanged' (RTG 1876) at the Institute of Ancient Studies of Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
Introduction; 1. Reconstructing empedocles' on nature; 2. The proem to on nature; 3. Daimones between plato and pythagoras; 4. Divine beings; 5. Changes of form, personal survival and rebirth; 6. Knowing nature as a God; 7. Cosmic cycle, Moral agency and rebirth; 8. Epilogue.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.01.2024 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 774 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-39257-3 / 1009392573 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-39257-0 / 9781009392570 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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