Becoming God : Pure Reason in Early Greek Philosophy Paperback / softback
by Patrick Lee Miller
Part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Ancient Philosophy series
Paperback / softback
Description
Becoming god was an ideal of many ancient Greek philosophers, as was the life of reason, which they equated with divinity.
This book argues that their rival accounts of this equation depended on their divergent attitudes toward time.
Affirming it, Heraclitus developed a paradoxical style of reasoningGCochiasmusGCothat was the activity of his becoming god.
Denying it as contradictory, Parmenides sought to purify thinking of all contradiction, offering eternity to those who would follow him.
Plato did, fusing this pure style of reasoningGCoconsistencyGCowith a Pythagorean program of purification and divinization that would then influence philosophers from Aristotle to Kant.
Those interested in Greek philosophical and religious thought will find fresh interpretations of its early figures, as well as a lucid presentation of the first and most influential attempts to link together divinity, rationality, and selfhood.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:190 pages, black & white illustrations
- Publisher:Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Publication Date:27/09/2012
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- ISBN:9781441152701
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:190 pages, black & white illustrations
- Publisher:Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Publication Date:27/09/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9781441152701
