Cosmic Order and Divine Power: Pseudo-Aristotle, On the Cosmos

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Johan C. Thom
Mohr Siebeck, 18 сент. 2014 г. - Всего страниц: 240
The treatise De mundo (On the Cosmos), dated around the 1st century BCE, offers a cosmology in the Peripatetic tradition which draws also on Platonic and Stoic thought and subordinates what happens in the cosmos to the might of an omnipotent god. Thus the work is paradigmatic for the philosophical and religious concepts of the early imperial age, which offer points of contact with nascent Christianity. In line with the aims of the SAPERE series, this volume on De mundo is explicitly interdisciplinary by nature, bringing together contributions from scholars from a broad spectrum of disciplines and specialisations which focus on specific topics, each from its own disciplinary perspective. The volume contains a Greek text and translation of De mundo as well as interpretive essays on the language and style, geography, cosmotheology and the reception in or possible influence of De mundo in various intellectual traditions.
 

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Introduction Johan C Thom 1 Author and Date 2 Sources and Other Texts
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Readers Genre and Function
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Text Editions and Translations
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B Text Translation and Notes
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Essays V VII 338 10 14 16 880 20
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Clive Chandler 1 Key Studies of the Language of On the Cosmos
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Discursive Strategies and General Format
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Varieties of Lexis and Register
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The Reception of On the Cosmos in Ancient Pagan Philosophy
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The Concepts of ovoía and dúvaus in De mundo and Their Parallels
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Conclusion
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Syriac and Arabic Transmission of On the Cosmos Hidemi Takahashi
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Christian
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The Descriptive Sections
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The Cosmic Sections
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Conclusion
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The Geography of De mundo Renate Burri 1 Preliminary Remarks
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Earth and Water within the Cosmos
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Geographical Description of Earth and Water
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Conclusion
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The Cosmotheology of De mundo Johan C Thom
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Philosophy as Cosmotheology
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God and the Definition of Cosmos
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An Overview of the Cosmos as Backdrop
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Preservation despite Conflicting Phenomena
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The Relationship between God and the Cosmos
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Disputes over the Authorship of De mundo between Humanism
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Related Texts Andrew Smith
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Bibliography
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Indices Andrea Villani
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About the Authors of this Volume
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