Ptolemy's Philosophy (eBook)

Mathematics as a Way of Life

Jacqueline Feke (Autor)

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2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18403-6 (ISBN)

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A stimulating intellectual history of Ptolemy's philosophy and his conception of a world in which mathematics reigns supremeThe Greco-Roman mathematician Claudius Ptolemy is one of the most significant figures in the history of science. He is remembered today for his astronomy, but his philosophy is almost entirely lost to history. This groundbreaking book is the first to reconstruct Ptolemy's general philosophical system-including his metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics-and to explore its relationship to astronomy, harmonics, element theory, astrology, cosmology, psychology, and theology.In this stimulating intellectual history, Jacqueline Feke uncovers references to a complex and sophisticated philosophical agenda scattered among Ptolemy's technical studies in the physical and mathematical sciences. She shows how he developed a philosophy that was radical and even subversive, appropriating ideas and turning them against the very philosophers from whom he drew influence. Feke reveals how Ptolemy's unique system is at once a critique of prevailing philosophical trends and a conception of the world in which mathematics reigns supreme.A compelling work of scholarship, Ptolemy's Philosophy demonstrates how Ptolemy situated mathematics at the very foundation of all philosophy-theoretical and practical-and advanced the mathematical way of life as the true path to human perfection.

Autor

Jacqueline Feke is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.10.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Academic skepticism • Alcinous (philosopher) • Alexander of Aphrodisias • Almagest • Almagest 1.1 • Ammonius Saccas • Analogy • Antiochus of Ascalon • Approximation • aristotelian philosophy • Aristotle • astrological sign • Astrology • Astrology and Astronomy • Astrology and science • Astronomer • astronomia • Astronomical Object • Astronomy • attunement • basic research • Calculation • Celestial equator • Circular motion • Classical element • Claudius Ptolemy • Cognition • Commensurability (philosophy of science) • Conjunction (astronomy) • Cosmology • Definition • dichotomy • element theory • Elongation (astronomy) • Empirical Evidence • Empiricism • Epicureanism • Epistemology • equant • ethics • Euclid's elements • Exaltation (astrology) • Explanation • First principle • Geometry • Harmonia • harmonic ratios • Harmonics • heavens • Hero of Alexandria • human soul • hypothesis • Inquiry • Instance (computer science) • Instrumentalism • intellectual virtue • longitude • Luminiferous aether • Mathematical Sciences • mathematician • Mathematics • Max Planck Institute for the History of Science • Metaphysics • Middle Platonism • music theory • Myth of Er • Natural Philosophy • Neoplatonism • Nicomachean Ethics • Number Theory • observational astronomy • occultation • On Generation and Corruption • On the Kritêrion • On the Soul • Ontology • Passivity (engineering) • Peripatetic school • phenomenon • Philosopher • Philosophy • physical body • physical cosmology • Planetary Hypotheses • Planetary System • platonic philosophy • Platonism • Plotinus • Polemic • practical philosophy • Prediction • Proportion (architecture) • psychological theory • Psychology • Pythagoreanism • Quantity • Quartile • Reality • school of thought • Science • Science Studies • Scientific Method • Sextus Empiricus • Solar System • Soul • Stoicism • Sublunary sphere • Tetrabiblos • Tetrachord • Theoretical Philosophy • theory • Theory of Forms • The Philosopher • Thought • Timaeus (dialogue) • Trichotomy (philosophy) • Virtue Ethics • Virtues
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18403-8 / 0691184038
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18403-6 / 9780691184036