Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek ThoughtOxford University Press, 2001 - 499 頁 'A fascinating book. It contains a sweeping survey of approaches to causation and explanation from the Presocratic philosophers (sixth century BC) to the Neo-platonist philosophers (third century AD). Hankinson pays a visit to every major figure and movement in between: the sophists, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, the Sceptics, the Epicureans and a variety of medical writers, early and late... impressive... Hankinson's observations are regularly intriguing, at times refreshingly trenchant, and in some cases straightforwardly arresting... the history itself is excellent: clear, intelligently conceived and executed, and broadly accessible. Those in search of a philosophically astute history of clasical philosophy given in terms of one of its own central unifying obsessions will delight in reading R. J. Hankinson's work.' -Christopher Sheilds, Times Literary SupplementR. J. Hankinson traces the history of ancient Greek thinking about causation and explanation. He examines how the Greeks 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 explanation, for an account of the world that will render it amenable to prediction and control. |
內容
Introduction | 1 |
I The Presocratics | 7 |
II Science and Sophistry | 51 |
III Plato | 84 |
Explanation and Nature | 125 |
Explanation and the World | 160 |
VI The Atomists | 201 |
VII The Stoics | 238 |
IX Explanation in the Medical Schools | 295 |
X The Age of Synthesis | 323 |
XI Science and Explanation | 364 |
XII The Neoplatonists | 404 |
List of Abbreviated Principles | 449 |
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