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  3. Mortal and Divine in Early Greek Epistemology
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      30 September 2017
      12 October 2017
      ISBN:
      9781139235747
      9781107028166
      9781009069847
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139235747
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.63kg, 418 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.548kg, 422 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Philosophy, Classical Studies (General), Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Classical Studies
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    Subjects:
    Classical Studies, Classical Philosophy, Classical Studies (General), Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Classical Studies
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    This book demonstrates that we need not choose between seeing so-called Presocratic thinkers as rational philosophers or as religious sages. In particular, it rethinks fundamentally the emergence of systematic epistemology and reflection on speculative inquiry in Hesiod, Xenophanes and Parmenides. Shaul Tor argues that different forms of reasoning, and different models of divine disclosure, play equally integral, harmonious and mutually illuminating roles in early Greek epistemology. Throughout, the book relates these thinkers to their religious, literary and historical surroundings. It is thus also, and inseparably, a study of poetic inspiration, divination, mystery initiation, metempsychosis and other early Greek attitudes to the relations and interactions between mortal and divine. The engagements of early philosophers with such religious attitudes present us with complex combinations of criticisms and creative appropriations. Indeed, the early milestones of philosophical epistemology studied here themselves reflect an essentially theological enterprise and, as such, one aspect of Greek religion.

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    • 3 - Xenophanes on Divine Disclosure and Mortal Inquiry
      pp 104-154
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