Becoming God by Patrick Lee Miller
Becoming god was an ideal of many ancient Greek philosophers, as was the life of reason, which they equated with divinity. This book argues that their rival accounts of this equation depended on their divergent attitudes toward time. Affirming it, Heraclitus developed a paradoxical style of reasoning chiasmus that was the activity of his becoming god. Denying it as contradictory, Parmenides sought to purify thinking of all contradiction, offering eternity to those who would follow him. Plato did, fusing this pure style of reasoning consistency with a Pythagorean program of purification and divinization that would then influence philosophers from Aristotle to Kant. Those interested in Greek philosophical and religious thought will find fresh interpretations of its early figures, as well as a lucid presentation of the first and most influential attempts to link together divinity, rationality, and selfhood.-
Stoic Ethics
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The Socratic Method
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Plato's Stepping Stones
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Aristotle's Theory of Knowledge
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Pleasure in Aristotle's Ethics
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Happiness and Greek Ethical Thought
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Pythagoras and the Doctrine of Transmigration
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Aristotle's Ethics
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Parmenides and To Eon
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Stoic Virtues
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Parmenides, Plato and Mortal Philosophy
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Techne in Aristotle's Ethics
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Plato, Metaphysics and the Forms
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The Ideas of Socrates
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Aristotle and Rational Discovery
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Plato on Virtue and the Law
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Aristotle and Natural Law
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Early Greek Thought
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Aristotle's Metaphysics
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The Enduring Significance of Parmenides
Miller provides an interesting study of the possibility of human transcendence through rationality in the early Greek traditionHe plans to pursue this topic into later Greek philosophy where it becomes even more prominent, and his study already points the way to Aristotle's life of reason. We may look forward for the sequel to carry on his study. -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Patrick Lee Miller is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University, USA. His previous publications include Introductory Readings in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy (Hackett, 2006).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847061645 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847061648 |
| Title | Becoming God |
| Author | Patrick Lee Miller |
| Series | Continuum Studies In Ancient Philosophy |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2010-11-18 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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