Patrick Lee Miller

Becoming God

Pure Reason in Early Greek Philosophy

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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 reasoning-chiasmus-that 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 reasoning-consistency-with a Pythagorean program of purification and divinization that would then influence philosophers f… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4411-3457-8
EAN: 9781441134578
Produktnummer: 17017850
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 192 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'671 KB

Über den Autor

Patrick Lee Miller is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University, USA. His previous publications include Introductory Readings in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy (Hackett, 2006).