Magic, Reason and Experience : Studies in the origins and development of Greek science

by: Lloyd, G.E.R.

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Magic, reason, and experience : studies in the origin and development of Greek science

Author:G. E. R. Lloyd

Summary:This book is a study of the origins and development of Greek science, focusing especially on the interactions of scientific and traditional patterns of thought from the sixth- to the fourth-centuries BC. Dr Lloyd examines why the Greeks invented science and what social, economic, ideological and political factors had a bearing on its growth.

Contents:
The criticism of magic and the inquiry concerning nature : The pluralism of Greek religious beliefs ; The criticism of magic ; The persistence of traditional beliefs: Herodotus ; The philosophical background ; Healing and healers in the classical period ; The notions of ?nature? and ?cause?
Dialectic and demonstration : Some comparative considerations ; Aristotle?s analysis of modes of reasoning ; Early philosophical argumentation ; The development of rhetoric ; Rhetoric and the development of natural science ; The criticism of rhetoric ; The development of demonstration ; Interactions of dialectic and demonstration
The development of empirical research : Observation and research ; The epistemological debate ; The practice of research ; Presocratic natural philosophy ; Hippocratic medicine and the development of dissection ; Astronomy ; Aristotle
Greek science and Greek society : The explanandum ; The Greeks and the near east ; Some explanatory hypotheses ; Political developments ; The relevance of politics to science ; Conclusions

Series:
Studies in the origin and development of Greek science

xii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Magic, Reason and Experience : Studies in the origins and development of Greek science

by: Lloyd, G.E.R.

• ISBN-13: 9780521296410 / 978-0-521-29641-0
• ISBN-03: 0521296412 / 0-521-29641-2
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987

Price: 67,00 EURO

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