Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought

ISBN: 9780199246564 出版年：2003 页码：516 Hankinson, R J Clarendon Press

R. J. Hankinson traces the history of ancient Greek thinking about causation and explanation. He examines how the Greeks dealt with questions about how and why things happen as and when they do, about the basic constitution and structure of things, about function and purpose, laws of nature, chance, coincidence, and responsibility. Such diverse questions are unified by the fact that they are all demands for explanation, for an account of the world that will render it amenable to prediction and control.