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This title features nine new essays which examine the close connection between theology and cosmology in Stoic philosophy. The contributors discuss the nature of god, his relation to the material world, fate and causation, rival cosmologies, and the ethical and religious consequ…
This book aims at giving the basis of primordial cosmology. The book is self-contained in the sense that all the elements for the derivations of the presented results are given. It can be used as a textbook to study cosmology. It is divided into 3 parts. Part 1 summarizes the fu…
"Plato's Timaeus contains a powerful and influential myth of the construction of the universe by a divine craftsman. A god imposes reason on necessity to bring order from a primeval 'receptacle' of disordered matter. There results the 'child' that is the cosmos - a copy of an et…
It's been nearly four decades since Carl Sagan first addressed the general public from a scientist's perspective, confronting the possibility of extraterrestrial life. We've learned a lot in those years, and planetary scientist David Grinspoon is well prepared to explore this fi…
Timaeus and Critias
by Plato, Plato, Gregory, Andrew
fromOxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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"Timaeus, one of Plato's acknowledged masterpieces, is an attempt to construct the universe and explain its contents by means of as few axioms as possible. The result is a brilliant, bizarre, and surreal cosmos - the product of the rational thinking of a creator god and his astr…
Timaeus and Critias
by Plato, Plato, Waterfield, Robin, Gregory, Andrew
fromOxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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Type: Book
In Timaeus Plato attempts to describe and explain the structure of the universe: the creator god, the elements, the lower gods, the stars, and men. The companion piece, Critias, is the origin of the story of Atlantis, the lost empire defeated by ancient Athenians. This is the cl…
The spiritual geography of Russian cosmism. General characteristics ; Recent definitions of cosmism -- Forerunners of Russian cosmism. Vasily Nazarovich Karazin (1773-1842) ; Alexander Nikolaevich Radishchev (1749-1802) ; Poets: Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov, (1711-1765) and Gav…
This book explores ancient thinking about causation and creation, considering the perspectives of key Christian and pagan thinkers.
Causation and creation in late antiquity
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"This is the first detailed and comprehensive account of ancient Greek theories of the origins of the world. It covers the period from 800 B.C. to 600 A.D., beginning with myths concerning the creation of the world. It covers the cosmogonies of all the major Greek and Roman thin…
"This is the first detailed and comprehensive account of ancient Greek theories of the origins of the world. It covers the period from 800 B.C. to 600 A.D., beginning with myths concerning the creation of the world. It covers the cosmogonies of all the major Greek and Roman thin…