Philosophizing ad Infinitum
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Philosophizing ad Infinitum

Infinite Nature, Infinite Philosophy

  1. 218 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Philosophizing ad Infinitum

Infinite Nature, Infinite Philosophy

About this book

One of France's preeminent historians of philosophy, Marcel Conche has written and translated more than thirty-five books and is recognized for his groundbreaking and authoritative work in Greek philosophy, as well as on Montaigne. In Philosophizing ad Infinitum, one of his most remarkable and daring books, Conche articulates a unique and powerful understanding of nature, inclusive of humanity, as infinite in time and space—ever self-renewing, eternal, and beyond complete understanding or control. In today's world the notion of infinity is at the core of the crisis humanity faces understanding nature. For the last two hundred years economies have been running at full speed, fueled by the implicit belief that natural resources are infinite; however, it is clear that they are not and that humanity needs to radically rethink the foundations of environmental and economic systems. Conche seeks to begin this rethinking, illustrating along the way insightful and sometimes unorthodox ideas about Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Bergson, and others.

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INDEX

Absolute, 16, 68, 140
Academy of Athens, xvii, cf. Conche
Achilles, x, cf. Zeno
action, xix, 21, 38n43, 38–39, 41, 43, 46, 87, 108, 123, 128–131, 136, 141, 165–166, 170, 172
Aetius, 67, 149, 175
agape, 115–116
air, 2, 20, 30–32, 43, 45, 54n8, 73, 87
Alexander of Aphrodisias, 45, 47, 149
Algebra, Arab treatise on Algebra, 79n8, 152, cf. Khayyam, Omar
America, iv, 86
American philosophy, ix
amor casus, 84, 96, cf. Nietzsche
amor fati, 84, 88n26, 96, cf. Nietzsche
anankè stènai, 102
Anaxagoras, 20, 32, 149
Anaxamanderian-Pythagorean sense, xi
Anaximander, x–xii, 4, 34, 36, 85, 123–125, 150, 171, 182
Anglo-American philosophers, ix
Ante-Socratics, xxi, 8, 55, 68, 124, 124n2, 182, see also Pre-Socratics
anthropomorphism, 90, 143
anti-theist position, 3
apeiron, x–xii, 36, 124, 150, see also unlimited
Apology of Raymond Sebond, 72, cf. Montaigne
Appearance, xviii, 4–6, 100
Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 101, 149, 180
arche of Anaximander, x
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Translators’ Introduction
  7. Preface to the English Translation
  8. I. Flashback
  9. II. Presence of the Infinite: Plato and Science in Opposition to the Infinite
  10. III. With and Without Aristotle
  11. IV. With and Without Chrysippus
  12. V. With and Without Epicurus
  13. VI. With and Without Montaigne
  14. VII. A Moment with Omar Khayyam
  15. VIII. Concerning Nietzsche
  16. IX. My Path with and Without Bergson
  17. X. With Pascal and Without Him
  18. XI. With the “Old Sage” and Without Him
  19. Appendix: Correspondence between Marcel Conche and Gilbert Kirscher
  20. Glossarium
  21. Bibliography of Marcel Conche
  22. Notes
  23. Index
  24. Back Cover