Cause and Explanation in Ancient Philosophy

✍ Scribed by Alberto Ross (editor), Daniel Vázquez (editor)

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 273
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This volume offers an updated analysis of the use, meaning, and scope of the classical notion of aitia. It clarifies philosophical and philological questions about aitia and offers bold and innovative interpretations of this key concept of ancient philosophy.

The numerous meanings and nuances of aitia remain difficult to grasp. Ancient philosophers use aitia to explain the existence and activity of substances, bodies, souls, or gods. Paradoxically, its own definition remains difficult to establish. This book reconstructs some of the most important uses, variants, and scopes of the term aitia within different philosophical perspectives in antiquity, including early Greek philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, and Islamic philosophy. The chapters analyze metaphysical aspects, epistemological issues, and logical implications of aitia. They engage with the most relevant critical literature generated in several modern languages. In doing so, they offer an inclusive and overarching re-evaluation of our assumptions about causation and explanation in ancient philosophy.

Cause and Explanation in Ancient Philosophy will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Pre-Socratic philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy, late antiquity, and medieval philosophy.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Note on the Original Meaning of Greek Aitios
2 What Good Is the Form of the Good?
3 That’s What Makes the World Go Round: Causation in the Myth in the Statesman
4 Chance, Necessity, and Demiurgic Causation in the Timaeus
5 Cause and Explanation in Aristotle: Logos, Eidos, and Tropos
6 Aristotle With Prime Matter
7 Aristotle on the Efficiency of Accidental Causes
8 The Relevance of Environmental Conditions as Causes for Animal Generation in Aristotle
9 Aristotle’s Causes and the Problem of the Necessity of Our Actions
10 Theories of Causation in Early Stoicism
11 The Scientific Epistemology of al-Naẓẓām
12 Recovering Causality? Ibn Taymiyya on the Creation of the World
Index

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