Inventing superstition : from the Hippocratics to the Christians /
"Dale Martin provides the first detailed genealogy of the idea of superstition, its history over eight centuries, from classical Greece to the Christianized Roman Empire of the fourth century C.E. With reference to the writings of philosophers, historians, and medical teachers he demonstrates t...
| Основен автор: | Martin, Dale B., 1954- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2004.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=282344 |
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Print version::
Inventing superstition. |
Съдържание:
- Superstitious Christians
- Problems of definition
- Inventing Deisidaimonia: Theophrastus, religious etiquette, and theological optimism
- Dealing with disease: the Hippocratics and the divine
- Solidifying new sensibility: Plato and Aristotle on the optimal universe
- Diodorus Siculus and the failure of philosophy
- Cracks in the philosophical system: Plutarch and the philosophy of demons
- Galen on the necessity of nature and theology and teleology
- Roman superstitio and Roman power
- Celsus and the attack on Christianity
- Origen and the defense of Chrisianity
- The philosophers turn: philosophical daimons in late antiquity
- Turning the tables: Eusibius, the triumphy in Christianity, and the superstition of the Greeks
- Conclusion: the rist and fall of a grand optimal illusion.