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1. Explicit Theological Innovations: Xenophanes’ God

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The Flower of Suffering
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© 2020 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston

© 2020 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents VII
  3. Acknowledgments XI
  4. 0. Introduction 1
  5. Part I: Philosophical Theology in Presocratic Philosophy and the Oresteia
  6. 1. Explicit Theological Innovations: Xenophanes’ God 35
  7. 2. God and the Unity of Opposites: Heraclitus 51
  8. 3. Zeus Whoever He Is 76
  9. 4. Zeus as the Ultimate Principle behind Reality 90
  10. Part II: Cosmic Justice: between a Metaphysics of Harmony and a Metaphysics of Conflict
  11. 5. Cosmic Justice and the Metaphysics of Opposites: Anaximander, Heraclitus, and Parmenides 117
  12. 6. Dikê, Time, and Necessity in the Oresteia 146
  13. 7. Dikê as conflict in the Oresteia 172
  14. 8. Persuasive Dikê: from violence to kindness 204
  15. 9. A Cosmos of Opposites 214
  16. 10. Epilogue 234
  17. Bibliography 243
  18. Index of Sources 261
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110685633-002

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents VII
  3. Acknowledgments XI
  4. 0. Introduction 1
  5. Part I: Philosophical Theology in Presocratic Philosophy and the Oresteia
  6. 1. Explicit Theological Innovations: Xenophanes’ God 35
  7. 2. God and the Unity of Opposites: Heraclitus 51
  8. 3. Zeus Whoever He Is 76
  9. 4. Zeus as the Ultimate Principle behind Reality 90
  10. Part II: Cosmic Justice: between a Metaphysics of Harmony and a Metaphysics of Conflict
  11. 5. Cosmic Justice and the Metaphysics of Opposites: Anaximander, Heraclitus, and Parmenides 117
  12. 6. Dikê, Time, and Necessity in the Oresteia 146
  13. 7. Dikê as conflict in the Oresteia 172
  14. 8. Persuasive Dikê: from violence to kindness 204
  15. 9. A Cosmos of Opposites 214
  16. 10. Epilogue 234
  17. Bibliography 243
  18. Index of Sources 261
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