Series: Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation, Volume: 9
Ever since Thales fell into the well, popular imagination has pictured philosophers as abstracted from everyday reality. Materia Philosophiae: The Material Dimensions of Ancient Philosophy counters that view. Philosophy in ancient Greece grew out of and remained closely connected to the material realities around it—difficulties of travel, reliance on cumbersome scrolls, learning acquired literally at the foot of a master; but also the spread of coinage, contemporaneous achievements in technology and engineering, and contact with everyday household objects. By resituating philosophers in their material contexts, Materia Philosophiae opens research avenues that have not previously been explored in a single volume.
Front MatterPhilosophical Argument and Material Realities
An Introduction
Part 1 Philosophers and TechnologiesChapter 1 Material Modular Thinking, Substance Monism, and the Origins of Greek Philosophy
Architecture, Gnomon, Coinage, and the Felting of Wool
Chapter 2 Placing the Ionian Περὶ φύσεως ἱστορία in Context
The Role of Sea Trade, Colonization, Navigation, and Analogies from Manufacturing Crafts (Τέχναι) in the Birth of Greek Science
Chapter 4 The Gods and the Machine
Ancient Automata and Divine Causation
Part 2 Thinking with ObjectsChapter 5 Using a Household Artefact as an Epistemological Tool
The Clepsydra in Anaxagoras, Aristotle’s De Caelo, and Empedocles
Chapter 8 Weaving the Double Square
An (Im-)Material Contribution to Early Greek Mathematics
Part 3 Philosophical Media and Their MessagesChapter 10 Metadiscourse
The Fabric of Early Greek Philosophical Prose
Chapter 11 Materiality and Philosophy
The Ancient Greek and Chinese Experiences Compared
Part 4 Philosophy and Ancient EmbodimentBack Matter
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