"In antiquity living beings are inextricably linked to the cosmos as a whole. Ancient biology and cosmology depend upon one another and therefore a complete understanding of one requires a full account of the other. This volume addresses many philosophical issues that arise from this double relation. Does the cosmos have a soul of its own? Why? Is either of these two disciplines more basic than the other, or are they at the same explanatory level? What is the relationship between living things and the cosmos as a whole? If the cosmos is an animate intelligent being, what is the nature of its thoughts and actions? How do these relate to our own thoughts and actions? Do they pose a threat to our autonomy as subjects and agents? And what is the place of zoogony in cosmogony? A distinguished international team of contributors provides original essays discussing these questions"--
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'For all its value and richness, [ this] is definitely a book very much worth reading for every historian of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy.' Damian Fernandez Beanato, Metascience
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Explores ancient biology and cosmology as two sciences that shed light on one another in their goals and methods.
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction The Intersection of Biology and Cosmology in Ancient Philosophy |
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1 Souls And Cosmos Before Plato: Five Short Doxographical Studies |
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2 The Ensouled Cosmos In Plato's Timaeus: Biological Science As A Guide To Cosmology? |
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3 Platonic `Desmology' And The Body Of The World Animal {Tim. 30C--34A) |
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4 The World Soul Takes Command: The Doctrine Of The World Soul In The Epinomis Of Philip Of Opus And In The Academy Of Polemon |
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5 Begotten And Made: Creation As Cosmogony In Middle Platonism |
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6 The De Motu Animalium On The Movement Of The Heavens |
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7 Biology And Cosmology In Aristotle |
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8 Recapitulation Theory And Transcendental Morphology In Antiquity |
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9 The Stoics' Empiricist Model Of Divine Thought |
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10 Why Is The Cosmos Intelligent? (2) Stoic Cosmology And Plato, Timaeus 30A2--C1 |
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11 Cardiology And Cosmology In Post-Chrysippean Stoicism |
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12 The Agency Of The World |
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13 God And The Material World: Biology And Cosmology In Galen's Physiology |
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14 At The Intersection Of Cosmology And Biology: Plotinus On Nature |
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15 Is The Heaven An Animal? Avicenna's Celestial Psychology Between Cosmology And Biology |
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| References |
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| Index |
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| Index Locorum |
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Ricardo Salles is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His recent books include: Los Filósofos Estoicos. Ontologķa, Lógica, Fķsica y Ética (with Marcelo Boeri, 2014) and Alejandro de Afrodisias. De la Mixtura y el Crecimiento (with José Molina, 2020). He is the editor of Metaphysics, Soul and Ethics. Themes from the Work of Richard Sorabji (2005) and of God and Cosmos in Stoicism (2009).
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