Becoming God Pure Reason in Early Greek Philosophy

by Miller, Patrick Lee

• ISBN13: 9781847061645
• ISBN10: 1847061648
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-20
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

A lucid presentation of the first and most influential attempts to weave together philosophical thought on God, reason and happiness.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Heraclitus	p. 12
Fluent Logos	p. 12
Illogical Logos	p. 13
Divine Conflict	p. 18
Divine Unity	p. 21
Becoming God	p. 23
Becoming Oneself	p. 27
Grasping Oneself	p. 29
Immortals Mortals	p. 33
One and Many	p. 37
Chiastic Self	p. 41
Parmenides and Pythagoreans	p. 43
Mystagogical Logic	p. 43
Being Oneself	p. 48
Going Under	p. 52
Ordered Cosmos	p. 57
One or Many	p. 63
Ordered Self	p. 70
Plato	p. 78
Consistently Pure	p. 80
Pure Thought	p. 85
Purging Contradiction	p. 88
Purifying Oneself	p. 91
Divine Light	p. 94
Dialectical Ascent	p. 97
One over Many	p. 100
Becoming Divine	p. 103
Divided Soul	p. 105
Consistent Self	p. 110
Conclusion	p. 114
Notes	p. 118
Works Cited	p. 162
Index	p. 169
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