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Studies in Empedocles' Zoogony
Studies in Empedocles' Zoogony
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202103049
- ISBN
- 9798286425174
- DDC
- 417
- 서명/저자
- Studies in Empedocles Zoogony
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : New York University, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 229 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-12, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Forte, Alexander.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약In this dissertation, I examine the origin of the human race in Presocratic philosophy, focusing on Empedocles. Outside of philosophy, the beginning of humanity is not found often in early Greek literature, aside from certain attested passages by Sapho and Aesop. Around the same years as these two authors were writing, the pre-Socratic philosopher Anaximander theorized human evolution from fish. This led to other theories by thinkers such as Xenophanes, Anaxagoras, and the central focus of my dissertation, Empedocles. After surveying the predecessors of Empedocles and their zoogonies, I then proceed to Empedocles' cosmic cycle. Scholars have recently argued over whether Empedocles theorized one world or two in his cycle. I argue for the traditionalist approach that Empedocles' world system comprised two phases, one of Strife and one of Love, and that he considered himself to be living in an Age of Strife, in which his audience and we ourselves would reasonably be. Empedocles proposes two zoogonies in his poem, one where human beings erupt from the earth under Strife, and another where they are formed from separate body parts under Love. After I discuss all of these subjects in my introduction, my second chapter gives a full treatment of Strife's zoogony and the physics of such. I go on to demonstrate that Empedocles' philosophy has connections to ideas of authochthony featured in Plato's Menexenus. I make the point that having been inspired by Anaxagoras, Empedocles understood the importance of Athens during his time, and that Plato especially utilized this connection in the Menexenus. The zoogony under Love is the subject of my third chapter. In this chapter, I not only analyze the details of this zoogony and link it to Pythagorean sexual ethics, but also explore Empedocles' influence on Plato's Symposium and Epicurean philosophy. For my final chapter and conclusion, I adduce certain later texts on which Empedocles' zoogony may have had a more indirect influence, as well as later texts on which he had a definite influence. I also consider how Empedocles' predecessors and peers may have impacted his cosmological views. I end my dissertation by tying Empedocles back into Pythagoras and Ovid, returning to both a scientific theory of evolution and the religious view of reincarnation.
- 일반주제명
- Ancient languages
- 일반주제명
- Philosophy
- 일반주제명
- Philosophy of religion
- 키워드
- Empedocles
- 키워드
- Lucretius
- 키워드
- Menexenus
- 키워드
- Plato
- 키워드
- Pythagoras
- 기타저자
- New York University Classics
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-12A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
MARC
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■5021 ▼aThesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2025.
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■590 ▼aSchool code: 0146.
■650 4▼aAncient languages
■650 4▼aPhilosophy
■650 4▼aPhilosophy of religion
■653 ▼aEmpedocles
■653 ▼aLucretius
■653 ▼aMenexenus
■653 ▼aPlato
■653 ▼aPresocratic philosophy
■653 ▼aPythagoras
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■71020▼aNew York University▼bClassics.
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■791 ▼aPh.D.
■792 ▼a2025
■793 ▼aEnglish
■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17356852▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.


