Creationism and its critics in antiquity

Acknowledgments

Preface

[ch]. 1. Anaxagoras

1. The presocratic agenda

2. Anaxagoras's cosmology

3. The power of nous

4. Sun and Moon

5. Worlds and seeds

6. Nous as creator

7. Scientific creationism

Appendix : Anazagoras's theory of matter

[ch]. 2. Empedocles

1. The cosmic cycle

2. The double zoogony

3. Creationist discourse

4. Design and accident

Appendix 1 : The double zoogony revisited

Appendix 2 : The chronology of the cycle

Appendix 3 : Where in the cycle are we?

Appendix 4 : Lucretian testimony for Empedocles' zoogony

[ch]. 3. Socrates

1. 1. Diogenes of Apollonia

2. Socrates in Xenophon

3. Socrates in Plato's Phaedo

4. A historical synthesis

[ch]. 4. Plato

1. The Phaedo myth

2. Introducing the Timaeus

3. An act of creation?

4. Divine craftsmanship

5. Is the world perfect?

6. The origin of species

[ch]. 5. The atomists

1. Democritus

2. The Epicurean critique of creationism

3. The Epicurean alternative to creationism

4. Epicurean infinity

[ch]. 6. Aristotle

1. God as paradigm

2. The craft analogy

3. Necessity

4. Fortuitous outcomes

5. Cosmic teleology

6. Aristotle's Platonism

[ch]. 7. The stoics

1. Stoicism

2. A window on stoic theology

3. Appropriating Socrates

4. Appropriating Plato

5. Whose benefit?

Epilogue : A Galenic perspective

Bibliography

Index locorum

General index.