Cause and explanation in ancient Greek thought

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Cause and explanation in ancient Greek thought

R.J. Hankinson

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1998

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-475) and index

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R. J. Hankinson traces the history of ancient Greek thinking about causation and explanation, from its earliest beginnings through more than a thousand years to the middle of the first millennium of the Christian era. The ancient Greeks were the first Western civilization to subject the ideas of cause and explanation to rigorous and detailed analysis, and to attempt to construct theories about them on the basis of logic and experience. Hankinson examines the ways in which they dealt with questions about how and why things happen as and when they do, about the basic constitution and structure of things, about function and purpose, laws of nature, chance, coincidence, and responsibility. Such diverse questions are unified by the fact that they are all demands for an account of the world that will render it amenable to prediction and control; they are therefore at the root of both philosophical and scientific enquiry. Hankinson offers a rich harvest of information and a fresh panoramic view of the origins and development of these kinds of enquiry.

目次

  • Introdcution
  • 1. The Presocratics
  • 2. Science and Sophistry
  • 3. Plato
  • 4. Aristotle: Explanation and Nature
  • 5. Aristotle: Explanation and the World
  • 6. The Atomists
  • 7. The Stoics
  • 8. The Sceptics
  • 9. Explanation in the Medical Schools
  • 10. The Age of Synthesis
  • 11. Science and Explanation
  • 12. The Neoplatonists
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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