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Author: John M. Dillon
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN : 9780198237662
The Heirs of Plato is the first book exclusively devoted to an in-depth study of the various directions in philosophy taken by Plato''s followers in the first seventy years or so following his death in 347 BC--the period generally known as ''The Old Academy''. Speusippus, Xenocrates, and Polemon, the three successive heads of the Academy in this period, though personally devoted to the memory of P
Author: Furley, David
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521034975
Furley's study presents a clear picture of the opposing views of the natural world and its contents as seen by philosophers and scientists in classical antiquity. On one side were the materialists whose world was mechanistic, evolutionary, and unbounded, lacking the focus of a natural center. The other side included teleologists, whose world was purposive, non-evolutionary, finite, and centrifocal
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780199244980
Method in Ancient Philosophy brings together fifteen new, specially written essays by leading scholars on a broad subject of central importance. The ancient Greeks recognized that different forms of human activity are guided by different methods of reasoning; examination of how they reasoned, and how they thought about their own reasoning, helps us to see how they came to hold the views they did,
Author: Nickolas Pappas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN : 9780415299961
An accessible companion to one of Plato''s most important works now in a welcome updated second edition. It leads the reader through Plato''s life, the background to the Republic, its text and ideas and its continuing influence on Western thought. In this second edition of the highly successful Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Republic, Nickolas Pappas extends his exploration of the
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780198237921
This original new book argues for a reassessment of Plato''s challenge to the arts. Plato was the first great figure in Western philosophy to assess the value of the arts; he argued in the Republic that traditionally accepted forms of poetry, drama, and music are unsound. While this view has been widely rejected, Janaway argues that Plato''s hostile case is a more coherent and profound challenge t
Author: Cleve, Felix M.
Publisher : Clarke Press
ISBN : 9781406744767
Author: Christopher Shields
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780199253074
Aristotle attaches particular significance to the homomyny of many of the central concepts in philosophy and science: that is, to the diversity of ways of being that are denoted by a single concept. Shields here investigates and evaluates Aristotle''s approach to questions about homonymy, characterizing the metaphysical and semantic commitments necessary to establish the homonymy of a given concep
Author: Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9781595479792
Metaphysics is Aristotle's version of philosophy examining the nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, substance and attribute, fact and value. Aristotle argues that there are a handful of universal truths. Aristotle's works have influenced science, religion, and philosophy for nearly two thousand years. He could be thought of as the father of logical thought. Aristo
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Publisher : 101 Productions
ISBN : 9780198152255
Since the middle ages, Aristotle has been hailed as the father of economics by economists, while classical scholars hold that he did no economics at all, only ethics. This book argues that Aristotle does develop a coherent theory of value, wealth, exchange, and money, which is strongly supported by his metaphysics. But its very metaphysical foundation make the theory impossible to assimilate to Ne
Author: Taylor;Plato
Publisher : 101 Productions
ISBN : 9780198239345
In addition to its interest as one of Plato''s most brilliant dramatic masterpieces, the Protagoras presents a vivid picture of the crisis of fifth century Greek thought, in which traditional values and conceptions of humanity were subjected to criticism of the Sophists and to the far more radical criticism of Socrates. The dialogue deals with many themes which are central to the ethical theories
Author: O'Meara, Dominic J.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780198751472
This book is addressed to readers new to the Enneads. One of the greatest of ancient philosophers, Plotinus is attracting ever-increasing attention from those interested in ancient philosophy, late Antiquity, and the importance of this period for the Western intellectual tradition. O''Meara presents a brief outline of Plotinus''s life, and of the composition of the Enneads, placing Plotinus within
Author: Tertullian
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781419192548
But grant that these argumentations may be thought to be forced and founded on con- jectures, if no dogmatic teachings have stood parallel with them which the Lord uttered in treating of divorce, which, permitted formerly, He now prohibits, first because from the beginning it was not so, like plurality of marriage; secondly, because What God hath conjoined, man shall not separate, [1]--for fear, n
Author: Marsilio Ficino
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN : 9780674003453
The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic schools of Plotinus and Proclus, he was committed to reconciling Platonism with Christianity, in the hope that such a reconciliation would initiate a spirit
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780198236023
The Physics is one of Aristotle''s masterpieces--a work of extraordinary intellectual power which has had a profound influence on the development of metaphysics and the philosophy of science, as well as on the development of physics itself. This collection of ten new essays by leading Aristotelian scholars examines a wide range of issues in the Physics and related works, including method, causatio
Author: Hugh H. Benson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780195129182
While the early Platonic dialogues have often been explored and appreciated for their ethical content, this is the first book devoted solely to the epistemology of Plato''s early dialogues. Author Hugh H. Benson argues that the characteristic features of these dialogues--Socrates'' method of questions and answers (elenchos), his fascination with definition, his professions of ignorance, and his th
Author: Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9781421920269
As a slave is a particular species of property, let us by all means inquire into the nature of property in general, and the acquisition of money, according to the manner we have proposed. In the first place then, some one may doubt whether the getting of money is the same thing as economy, or whether it is a part of it, or something subservient to it; and if so, whether it is as the art of making
Author: Aristotle
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781419103919
As a slave is a particular species of property, let us by all means inquire into the nature of property in general, and the acquisition of money, according to the manner we have proposed. In the first place then, some one may doubt whether the getting of money is the same thing as economy, or whether it is a part of it, or something subservient to it; and if so, whether it is as the art of making
Author: Everson, Stephen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521358613
This second Companion deals with the ancient theories of the psyche. The essays range over more than eight hundred years of psychological inquiry and provide critical analyses not only of the ancient discussions of the nature of the psyche and its states, but of such central topics as perception, subjectivity, the explanation of action, and what it is to be a person. In examining the wide variety
Author: Blackburn, Simon
Publisher : Tantor Media
ISBN : 9781400133901
Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who has ever lived, and The Republic is widely regarded as his most famous dialogue. Its discussion of the perfect city---and the perfect mind---laid the foundations for Western culture. In Plato's Republic, Simon Blackburn explains the judicial, moral, and political ideas in The Republic and shows why Western thought is still conditioned by this m
Author: Julia Annas;Jonathan Barnes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521276443
The Modes of Scepticism is one of the most important and influential of all ancient philosophical texts. The texts made an enormous impact on Western thought when they were rediscovered in the 16th century and they have shaped the whole future course of Western philosophy. Despite their importance, the Modes have been little discussed in recent times. This book translates the texts and supplies th
The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347-274 B.C.)
Author: John M. DillonPublisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN : 9780198237662
The Heirs of Plato is the first book exclusively devoted to an in-depth study of the various directions in philosophy taken by Plato''s followers in the first seventy years or so following his death in 347 BC--the period generally known as ''The Old Academy''. Speusippus, Xenocrates, and Polemon, the three successive heads of the Academy in this period, though personally devoted to the memory of P
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The Greek Cosmologists: Volume 1
Author: Furley, David Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521034975
Furley's study presents a clear picture of the opposing views of the natural world and its contents as seen by philosophers and scientists in classical antiquity. On one side were the materialists whose world was mechanistic, evolutionary, and unbounded, lacking the focus of a natural center. The other side included teleologists, whose world was purposive, non-evolutionary, finite, and centrifocal
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Method in Ancient Philosophy
Author: Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780199244980
Method in Ancient Philosophy brings together fifteen new, specially written essays by leading scholars on a broad subject of central importance. The ancient Greeks recognized that different forms of human activity are guided by different methods of reasoning; examination of how they reasoned, and how they thought about their own reasoning, helps us to see how they came to hold the views they did,
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Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Plato and the Republic
Author: Nickolas PappasPublisher : Routledge
ISBN : 9780415299961
An accessible companion to one of Plato''s most important works now in a welcome updated second edition. It leads the reader through Plato''s life, the background to the Republic, its text and ideas and its continuing influence on Western thought. In this second edition of the highly successful Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Republic, Nickolas Pappas extends his exploration of the
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Images of Excellence: Plato's Critique of the Arts
Author: Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780198237921
This original new book argues for a reassessment of Plato''s challenge to the arts. Plato was the first great figure in Western philosophy to assess the value of the arts; he argued in the Republic that traditionally accepted forms of poetry, drama, and music are unsound. While this view has been widely rejected, Janaway argues that Plato''s hostile case is a more coherent and profound challenge t
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The Philosophy of Anaxagoras
Author: Cleve, Felix M. Publisher : Clarke Press
ISBN : 9781406744767
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Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle
Author: Christopher ShieldsPublisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780199253074
Aristotle attaches particular significance to the homomyny of many of the central concepts in philosophy and science: that is, to the diversity of ways of being that are denoted by a single concept. Shields here investigates and evaluates Aristotle''s approach to questions about homonymy, characterizing the metaphysical and semantic commitments necessary to establish the homonymy of a given concep
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Metaphysics - Aristotle
Author: AristotlePublisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9781595479792
Metaphysics is Aristotle's version of philosophy examining the nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, substance and attribute, fact and value. Aristotle argues that there are a handful of universal truths. Aristotle's works have influenced science, religion, and philosophy for nearly two thousand years. He could be thought of as the father of logical thought. Aristo
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Aristotle's Economic Thought
Author: Publisher : 101 Productions
ISBN : 9780198152255
Since the middle ages, Aristotle has been hailed as the father of economics by economists, while classical scholars hold that he did no economics at all, only ethics. This book argues that Aristotle does develop a coherent theory of value, wealth, exchange, and money, which is strongly supported by his metaphysics. But its very metaphysical foundation make the theory impossible to assimilate to Ne
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Protagoras
Author: Taylor;PlatoPublisher : 101 Productions
ISBN : 9780198239345
In addition to its interest as one of Plato''s most brilliant dramatic masterpieces, the Protagoras presents a vivid picture of the crisis of fifth century Greek thought, in which traditional values and conceptions of humanity were subjected to criticism of the Sophists and to the far more radical criticism of Socrates. The dialogue deals with many themes which are central to the ethical theories
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Plotinus: An Introduction to the Enneads
Author: O'Meara, Dominic J.Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780198751472
This book is addressed to readers new to the Enneads. One of the greatest of ancient philosophers, Plotinus is attracting ever-increasing attention from those interested in ancient philosophy, late Antiquity, and the importance of this period for the Western intellectual tradition. O''Meara presents a brief outline of Plotinus''s life, and of the composition of the Enneads, placing Plotinus within
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On Monogamy
Author: Tertullian Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781419192548
But grant that these argumentations may be thought to be forced and founded on con- jectures, if no dogmatic teachings have stood parallel with them which the Lord uttered in treating of divorce, which, permitted formerly, He now prohibits, first because from the beginning it was not so, like plurality of marriage; secondly, because What God hath conjoined, man shall not separate, [1]--for fear, n
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Marsilio Ficino: Platonic Theology, Books I-IV
Author: Marsilio FicinoPublisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN : 9780674003453
The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic schools of Plotinus and Proclus, he was committed to reconciling Platonism with Christianity, in the hope that such a reconciliation would initiate a spirit
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Aristotle's Physics: A Collection of Essays
Author: Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780198236023
The Physics is one of Aristotle''s masterpieces--a work of extraordinary intellectual power which has had a profound influence on the development of metaphysics and the philosophy of science, as well as on the development of physics itself. This collection of ten new essays by leading Aristotelian scholars examines a wide range of issues in the Physics and related works, including method, causatio
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Socratic Wisdom: The Model of Knowledge in Plato's Early Dialogues
Author: Hugh H. BensonPublisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780195129182
While the early Platonic dialogues have often been explored and appreciated for their ethical content, this is the first book devoted solely to the epistemology of Plato''s early dialogues. Author Hugh H. Benson argues that the characteristic features of these dialogues--Socrates'' method of questions and answers (elenchos), his fascination with definition, his professions of ignorance, and his th
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A Treatise on Government
Author: Aristotle Publisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9781421920269
As a slave is a particular species of property, let us by all means inquire into the nature of property in general, and the acquisition of money, according to the manner we have proposed. In the first place then, some one may doubt whether the getting of money is the same thing as economy, or whether it is a part of it, or something subservient to it; and if so, whether it is as the art of making
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A Treatise on Government
Author: AristotlePublisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781419103919
As a slave is a particular species of property, let us by all means inquire into the nature of property in general, and the acquisition of money, according to the manner we have proposed. In the first place then, some one may doubt whether the getting of money is the same thing as economy, or whether it is a part of it, or something subservient to it; and if so, whether it is as the art of making
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Psychology
Author: Everson, StephenPublisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521358613
This second Companion deals with the ancient theories of the psyche. The essays range over more than eight hundred years of psychological inquiry and provide critical analyses not only of the ancient discussions of the nature of the psyche and its states, but of such central topics as perception, subjectivity, the explanation of action, and what it is to be a person. In examining the wide variety
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Plato's Republic (Library Edition)
Author: Blackburn, Simon Publisher : Tantor Media
ISBN : 9781400133901
Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who has ever lived, and The Republic is widely regarded as his most famous dialogue. Its discussion of the perfect city---and the perfect mind---laid the foundations for Western culture. In Plato's Republic, Simon Blackburn explains the judicial, moral, and political ideas in The Republic and shows why Western thought is still conditioned by this m
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The Modes of Scepticism: Ancient Texts and Modern Interpretations
Author: Julia Annas;Jonathan BarnesPublisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521276443
The Modes of Scepticism is one of the most important and influential of all ancient philosophical texts. The texts made an enormous impact on Western thought when they were rediscovered in the 16th century and they have shaped the whole future course of Western philosophy. Despite their importance, the Modes have been little discussed in recent times. This book translates the texts and supplies th
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