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Aristotle, Oedipus, and Greek Religion explores an important religious side to ancient Aristotelianism that has an impact on contemporary philosophical debates. _x000D_
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Louis F. Groarke shows how an exegetical perspective open to and respectful of Greek Pagan religion allows readers to discover a remarkably different Aristotle than the one to which we have grown accustomed. _x000D_
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To begin with, one must discover what Aristotle (and his school) taught, not by examining isolated passages, but by getting a sense of his philosophy as a whole. One has to make sense of the circumstantial evidence and carefully piece together a coherent technical case for the overall argument._x000D_
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In each chapter, Groarke considers another aspect of Aristotelian thought; this is in opposition to mainstream opinion which often describes Aristotle as a secret atheist, an agnostic, or as something akin to a modern-day positivist or a reductionist._x000D_
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The author goes on to show that Aristotle valued religious practice on a personal and social level, that his metaphysics are marked by intimations of the divine, that he provides an epistemological space for both science and religion, that his account of Greek tragedy has an inalienable moral and religious side, and that his account of the origins of cognition is not so far removed from religious scripture. _x000D_
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Aristotle, Oedipus, and Greek Religion is an analysis of universal themes from the viewpoint of an enormously influential ancient thinker, and an adventure into the history of ideas.
Contents
Abstract
Dedication
Epigraph
Note on Bibliographical Style
CHAPTER 1
Method and Overview
1. Introduction, Subject-Matter, and Methodology
2. Chapter Summary
CHAPTER 2
Did Aristotle Practise Religion?
2.1. A General Picture: Ancient Greek Atheism?
2.2. Aristotle and Disbelief
2.3. The Religious Aristotle: A Minority Position
2.4. First Textual Evidence
2.5. Aristotle's Religious Practice
2.6. Jaeger: The Old Developmentalism
2.7. Melzer: The Esoteric versus the Exoteric Aristotle
2.8. Aristotle and Prayer Generally
2.9. Aristotle and Petitionary Prayer
2.10. Aristotle's Self-Thinking God and Petitionary Prayer
2.11. Mythology and Pagan Revelation
2.12. The Scope of Inspiration
2.13. The Paranormal: Mystery Cults and Mysticism
CHAPTER 3
The Cosmos as a Hall of Mirrors
3.1. Aristotle's "Theology"
3.2. Imago Dei in an Aristotelian Vein
3.3. Eternal Duration
3.4. "Unmovedness"
3.5. "Unmixedness"
3.6. Immateriality
3.7. Actuality
3.8. Aristotle's God as Final and/or Efficient Cause of the Cosmos
3.9. Incommensurable Wonder
CHAPTER 4
Did Aristotle Believe in Fate (Τύχη)?
4.1. Terminology, Determinism
4.2. Τύχη, Science, and the Particular
4.3. Τύχη in Physics II.4-6
4.4. Bechler: Accidental Causality, Contrary to Reason?
4.5. Four Levels of Accidental Causality
4.6. Mayhew: Prayer, Τύχη, and Politics
4.7. Inspiration and Supernatural Agency
CHAPTER 5
Oedipus and Aristotle
5.1. Reasoning from Examples
5.2. The Story of Oedipus Tyrannos
5.3. Aristotle's Opinion of Oedipus
5.4. Esoteric and Exoteric Interpretations
5.5. Hamartia
5.6. Oedipus and Hamartia: Adkins
5.7. Oedipus and Hamartia: Stinton
5.8. Hamartia as a Term with Moral Color
5.9. Missing the Mark: The Aristotelian Mean
5.10. Oedipus' Passion for Truth?
5.11. Human Agency in Oedipus and Ancient Greek Culture
5.12. Oedipus The Tyrant
5.13. Oedipus Killing Laius
5.14. Oedipus' Excusable Crimes? Aristotle's Ethical Exceptions
5.15. Oedipus Furious
5.16. Oedipus and Akrasia
5.17. Was Oedipus Guilty of Parricide?
5.18. Purity and Pollution (Miasma)
5.19. Guilt and Shame
5.20. Bloodguilt and Oedipus
5.21. Plato, Aristotle, and Catharsis
5.22. Sophocles' Oedipus: A Tragedy Without Hamartia?
5.23. Oedipus and Hubris
5.24. Oedipus, Theatre, and Theôria
CHAPTER 6
A Phenomenology of Discovery
6.1. Aristotle and the New Testament
6.2. Aphrodite and Emmaus
6.3. Anagnȏrisis / Discovery
6.4. Aristotelian Induction
6.5 Other Kinds of Aristotelian Induction
6.6. Other Aristotelian Kinds of Quick-Knowing
6.7. Putting It All Together: Formalizing the Flash of Understanding
6.8. Rapid Insight in Homer and Luke
6.9. Complications
6.9.A. Physical Resurrection?
6.9.B. Can We Have Knowledge Directly from the Divine?
6.9.C. Divine Visitation?
CHAPTER 7
7.1. An Overall View
Bibliography
Index
