Anaximander and the Architects
The Contributions of Egyptian and Greek Architectural Technologies to the Origins of Greek Philosophy
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2012
350 pages
978-0-7914-9154-6 (ISBN)
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Uses textual and archaeological evidence to argue that emerging Egyptian and Greek architectural technologies were crucial to the origins and development of Greek philosophy.
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Anaximander and the Architects
The Contributions of Egyptian and Greek Architectural Technologies to the Origins of Greek Philosophy
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Robert Hahn
Anaximander and the Architects
The Contributions of Egyptian and Greek Architectural Technologies to the Origins of Greek Philosophy
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01/2001
State University of New York Press
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Robert Hahn is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He is the author of Formal Deductive Logic, Fifth Edition; Conduct and Constraints: Testing the Limits of the 'Harm Principle;' and Kant's Newtonian Revolution in Philosophy.
Content
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
1. ANAXIMANDER AND THE ORIGINS OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY
The Problem and the Three Tiers of Explanation
The Conventional View and Its Discontents
The New Contributing Thesis:Technology as Politics 2. THE IONIAN PHILOSOPHERS AND ARCHITECTS
Fixing Anaximander's Date:The First Philosophical Book in Prose
Archaic Prose Writing: Pherecydes' Cosmogony and Legal Inscriptions
Prose in Archaic Architectural Treatises and the Community of Thales and Anaximander, Theodorus and Rhoikos, Chersiphron and Metagenes
The New Connection:The Contribution of the Egyptian Architects to the Ionian Greek Architects of the Archaic Period
An Overview of Monumental Temple Projects in Archaic Ionia
The Meaning of the Temple: Design Choices
3. THE TECHNIQUES OF THE ANCIENT ARCHITECTS
The Evidence for Imagining in Plan or Aerial View
The Evidence for Models
The Theory of Proportions
The Techniques of Anathyrosis and Empolion
4. ANAXIMANDER'S TECHNIQUES
Architect, Philosopher, and the New Vision Supplied by the Application of Geometrical Techniques
Homer's World Picture
Hesiod's World Picture
Anaximander's World Picture:The Plan or Aerial View
Anaximander's World Picture:Three-dimensional Views-The Side, Elevation, Oblique, and Axonometric Views 5. TECHNOLOGY AS POLITICS: THE ORIGINS OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY IN ITS SOCIOPOLITICAL CONTEXT
Re-Framing the New Narrative Account
The Aristocratic Patrons of Archaic Temples
Technology as Politics: The "Argument" for the Appropriation of Civic Authority
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
1. ANAXIMANDER AND THE ORIGINS OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY
The Problem and the Three Tiers of Explanation
The Conventional View and Its Discontents
The New Contributing Thesis:Technology as Politics 2. THE IONIAN PHILOSOPHERS AND ARCHITECTS
Fixing Anaximander's Date:The First Philosophical Book in Prose
Archaic Prose Writing: Pherecydes' Cosmogony and Legal Inscriptions
Prose in Archaic Architectural Treatises and the Community of Thales and Anaximander, Theodorus and Rhoikos, Chersiphron and Metagenes
The New Connection:The Contribution of the Egyptian Architects to the Ionian Greek Architects of the Archaic Period
An Overview of Monumental Temple Projects in Archaic Ionia
The Meaning of the Temple: Design Choices
3. THE TECHNIQUES OF THE ANCIENT ARCHITECTS
The Evidence for Imagining in Plan or Aerial View
The Evidence for Models
The Theory of Proportions
The Techniques of Anathyrosis and Empolion
4. ANAXIMANDER'S TECHNIQUES
Architect, Philosopher, and the New Vision Supplied by the Application of Geometrical Techniques
Homer's World Picture
Hesiod's World Picture
Anaximander's World Picture:The Plan or Aerial View
Anaximander's World Picture:Three-dimensional Views-The Side, Elevation, Oblique, and Axonometric Views 5. TECHNOLOGY AS POLITICS: THE ORIGINS OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY IN ITS SOCIOPOLITICAL CONTEXT
Re-Framing the New Narrative Account
The Aristocratic Patrons of Archaic Temples
Technology as Politics: The "Argument" for the Appropriation of Civic Authority
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
