Tradition
Astrology
Overview
ensemble of traditions, beliefs and divinations that interpret the positions of the planets and other celestial bodies; along with their correlation with terrestrial events
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And, with this glorious certainty, more than two hundred families in France and Germany have ruined themselves. It is not then to be wondered at that the whole world has been duped by astrology. The wretched argument, "there are false prodigies, therefore there are true ones," is neither that of a philosopher, nor of a man acquainted with the world.
Voltaire, A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 02
The chapter “WITH A FEW MORE REFLECTIONS ON ASTROLOGY.” is titled for Astrology; states what Astrology is.
Again, certain of these persons likewise allow the alternate arrangement of the signs; while there are, again, others who do not admit it; but, instead thereof, divide the whole zodiac into quadrants, and denominate those between the ascendant and the mid-heaven, and between the western angle and the lower haven, oriental and masculine; and the other two quadrants, occidental and feminine. There have also been other…
Ptolemy, Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos
States what Astrology is.
Lastly, to the Prognostiques of time to come; which are naturally, but Conjectures upon the Experience of time past; and supernaturall, divine Revelation; the same authors of the Religion of the Gentiles, partly upon pretended Experience, partly upon pretended Revelation, have added innumerable other superstitious wayes of Divination; and made men believe they should find their fortunes, sometimes in the ambiguous…
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
States what Astrology is; opens on Astrology.
Philosophers who discussed Astrology
- Abraham ibn Ezra
- Paracelsus
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
- Gemistos Plethon
- Tommaso Campanella
- Xenocrates
- Marsilio Ficino
- Augustine of Hippo
- Peter Marshall (travel writer)
- Alcmaeon of Croton
- Roger Bacon
- Al-Kindi
- Olympiodorus the Younger
- Paul Thagard
- Hypatia
- Plotinus
- Imre Lakatos
- Carl Jung
- Nicole Oresme
- Paul Feyerabend
- Gersonides
- Marin Mersenne
- Porphyry of Tyre
- Adelard of Bath
Related ideas
- Cognition
- Hellenistic philosophy
- Carneades
- Falsifiability
- Avicenna
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Giordano Bruno
- Gerolamo Cardano
- Pyrrhonism
- Etymologiae
- Abraham ibn Ezra
- Yin and yang
- Almagest
- Ancient Greek
- Spiritualism (beliefs)
- Robert Fludd
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
- Vedas
- Isidore of Seville
- Japan
- Jonathan Swift
- Johannes Kepler
- National Science Foundation
- Chinese astrology
Place in the tradition
Part of Atheism.