Divination in the Ancient World, from Plato to the Neo-Platonists by Way of Aristotle and the Stoics. A Review of Peter T. Struck’s Divination and Human Nature
Divination is nowadays considered a pseudoscience or a parlor trick. Consequently, we are inclined to dismiss the ancient Greco-Romans’ interest in it as misguided and an intellectual dead end. But a new book by Peter Struck traces an intellectual history of divination from Plato to Aristotle and fr...
| Published in: | Journal of Cognitive Historiography |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publ.
[2016]
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Journal of Cognitive Historiography
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| Further subjects: | B
Divination
B Book review B Greco-Roman philosophy B Epistemology B Cognition |
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| Summary: | Divination is nowadays considered a pseudoscience or a parlor trick. Consequently, we are inclined to dismiss the ancient Greco-Romans’ interest in it as misguided and an intellectual dead end. But a new book by Peter Struck traces an intellectual history of divination from Plato to Aristotle and from the Stoics to the Neoplatonists, re-interpreting the concept as an early attempt to make sense of what we today call intuition. |
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| ISSN: | 2051-9680 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Cognitive Historiography
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/jch.34134 |