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To think like God Pythagoras and Parmenides, the origins of philosophy /

"To think like God focuses on the emergence of philosophy as a speculative science, tracing its origins to the Greek colonies of Southern Italy, from the late 6th century to mid-5th century B.C. Special attention is paid to the sage Pythagoras and his movement, the poet Xenophanes of Colophon,...

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Основен автор: Hermann, Arnold.
Формат: Електронен
Език: English
Публикувано: Las Vegas, Nev. : Parmenides Pub., ℗♭2004.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: To think like God.
Съдържание:
  • 1: Pythagoras
  • The search for a way out
  • The search for proof
  • 2: The pythagoreans
  • Tradition versus the historical account
  • The pythagorean agenda
  • The politics of pythagoreanism
  • War and luxury
  • The revolts against the pythagorean political elite
  • Those who listen and those who learn
  • 3: In want of a mathematics for the soul
  • The source code of the universe
  • The music of the spheres
  • Numerology
  • deriving philosophy from number?
  • 4: Pythagorizing versus philosophizing
  • 5: Parmenides
  • The lawmaker
  • The poet's challenge and the lawgiver's response
  • 6: The poem of parmenides
  • A quick guide to the poem's ordering
  • The poem, a translation
  • 7: The poem's most difficult points explained
  • What is the significance of the proem?
  • "Esti" or "IS": the parmenidean object
  • The IS as the universe: an olde misconception
  • What does the concept of truth signify for parmenides?
  • The question of IS NOT
  • Doxa: opinion or appearance?
  • Are there advantages to rearranging the fragments?
  • *: Guidelines for an evidential account
  • Delimiting the object of judgment
  • Twelve provisos for the evidential account
  • 9: Methods of proof and disproof
  • Like according to like
  • Sufficient reason, contradiction, and infinite regress
  • 10: Irrationals, s and the perfect premise
  • 11: Mind and universe: two realms, two separate approaches.