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Becoming God

Pure Reason in Early Greek Philosophy

by Patrick Lee Miller

  • Paperback
  • 190 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.1 cm

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This title offers a lucid presentation of the first and most influential attempts to weave together philosophical thought on God, reason and happiness. 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 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. "Bloomsbury Studies in Ancient Philosophy" presents cutting edge scholarship in the history of ancient philosophy.The wholly original arguments, perspectives and research findings in titles in this series make it an important and stimulating resource for students and academics from across the fields of Philosophy and Classical Studies.
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  • Author

    Patrick Lee Miller

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    September 2012

  • Weight

    273g

  • Page Count

    190

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781441152701

  • ISBN-10

    1441152709

  • Eden Code

    4034949

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