Reading Ancient Texts Volume Ii Aristotle And Neoplatonism
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Reading Ancient Texts
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Author : Suzanne Stern-Gillet
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2007
Reading Ancient Texts written by Suzanne Stern-Gillet and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
The contributors to this volume offer, in the light of specialised knowledge of leading philosophers of the ancient world, answers to the question: how are we to read and understand the surviving texts of Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and Augustine?
Reading Ancient Texts Volume Ii Aristotle And Neoplatonism
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2008-01-31
Reading Ancient Texts Volume Ii Aristotle And Neoplatonism written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-31 with History categories.
What is the history of philosophy? Is it history or is it philosophy or is it by some strange alchemy a confluence of the two? The contributors to the present volume of essays have tackled this seemingly simple, but in reality difficult and controversial, question, by drawing on their specialised knowledge of the surviving texts of leading ancient philosophers, from the Presocratics to Augustine, through Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus. These contributions, which reflect the range of methods and approaches currently used in the study of ancient texts, are offered as a tribute to the scholarship of Denis O’Brien, one of the most original and penetrating students of the thousand-year period of intense philosophical activity that constitutes ancient philosophy. Contributors include: T. Buchheim, J. Cleary, K. Corrigan, D. Evans, G. Gurtler S.J., C. Horn, J.-M. Narbonne, C. Natali, G. O'Daly, F. Schroeder, S. Stern-Gillet, P. Thillet, and C. Viano. Publications by Denis O’Brien: • Theories of Weight in the Ancient World: Four Essays on Democritus, Plato and Aristotle - A Study in the Development of Ideas. 1. Democritus: Weight and Size. An Exercise in the Reconstruction of Early Greek Philosophy, ISBN: 978 90 04 06134 7 (Out of print) • Pour interpréter Empédocle, ISBN: 978 90 04 06249 8 (Out of print) • Theories of Weight in the Ancient World: Four Essays on Democritus, Plato and Aristotle - A Study in the Development of Ideas. 2. Plato: Weight and Sensation. The Two Theories of the 'Timaeus', ISBN: 978 90 04 06934 3 • Théodicée plotinienne, théodicée gnostique, ISBN: 978 90 04 09618 9
Aristotle And Neoplatonism
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Author : Suzanne Stern-Gillet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Aristotle And Neoplatonism written by Suzanne Stern-Gillet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
The World As Active Power
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009-09-30
The World As Active Power written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-30 with History categories.
What is the ultimate explanatory factor for the existence of the world, for all its changing phenomena and the enduring order found in it? In the history of Western thought, we can find a longstanding philosophical tendency to answer this question in terms of power: the universe is understood as an ordered whole produced by a rational power, that is, by the power of reason. That power is thought to be active in the sense of being capable of existing and acting ‘in itself’ as an infinite, eternal, and unchangeable cause of the world. The essays in this collection discuss the idea of active power in the world-explanations of Plato, the Stoics, Neoplatonism, early and late medieval scholasticism, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer.
Humanism In An Age Of Science
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Author : Dirk van Miert
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009-07-31
Humanism In An Age Of Science written by Dirk van Miert and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-31 with History categories.
In 1632, the Amsterdam regents founded an Athenaeum or 'Illustrious School'. This kind of institution provided academic teaching, although it could not grant degrees and had no compulsory four-faculty system. Athenaeums proliferated in the first century after the Dutch Revolt, but few of them survived long. They have been interpreted as the manifestation of an evolving vision of the role of a higher education; this book, by contrast, argues that education at the Amsterdam Athenaeum was staunchly traditional both in methods and in substance. While religious, philosophical and scientific disputes rocked contemporary Dutch learned society, this analysis of letters, orations and disputations reveals that a traditional and Aristotelian humanism thrived at the Athenaeum until well into the seventeenth century.
The Odyssey Of Eidos
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Author : Mark J. Nyvlt
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2023-02-09
The Odyssey Of Eidos written by Mark J. Nyvlt and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-09 with Philosophy categories.
Aristotle sets the horizons of our inquiry: What is it when we say we know something? And is the object of knowledge a universal or particular [tode ti] object? Aristotle’s critique of Plato’s theory of form/Forms in light of his notion of actuality has generated a variety of topics that frame our inquiry: “Understanding Eidos as Form in the Works of Aristotle as Plato’s Critical Student”; “Aristotle on Plato’s Forms as Causes”; “Notes on the Relationship between Plato’s Parmenides and Aristotle’s Metaphysics Alpha”; “‘Separate’ and ‘Inactive’? Aristotle’s Most Challenging Critique of Plato’s ‘Forms’”; “Too Much Unity in a City Is Destructive of the City: Aristotle against Plato’s Unification Project of the Polis”; “Aristotle on the Soul as Actuality”; “Delphic Piety in the De Anima of Alexander of Aphrodisias”; “Aristotle and Plotinus: Act and Potency and the Two Acts”; and “Al-Fārābīon Habit and Imagination.” Here, the Peripatetic readings of form and actuality are parsed from the precipice of historical, analytic, and continental approaches to the mind/language/object problem, with advocacy of the importance of Aristotle’s contribution to this inquiry for the present age.
The Book Of Proverbs And Virtue Ethics
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Author : Arthur Jan Keefer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-11-05
The Book Of Proverbs And Virtue Ethics written by Arthur Jan Keefer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-05 with Philosophy categories.
This book offers a new interpretation of the book of Proverbs from the standpoint of virtue ethics.
From The Alien To The Alone
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Author : Gary M. Gurtler, SJ
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 2022-01-28
From The Alien To The Alone written by Gary M. Gurtler, SJ and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-28 with Philosophy categories.
Plotinus is often accused of writing haphazardly, with little concern for the integral unity of a treatise. By analyzing each treatise as a whole, From the Alien to the Alone finds much evidence that he constructed them skillfully, with the parts working together in subtle ways. This insight was also key in translating several central passages by considering the flow of the argument as a whole to shed light on the difficulties in these passages as well as reveal the structure often latent in particular treatise. The volume also serves to clarify Plotinus' rich use of images. Commentators, for instance, tend to take the images of light and warmth to explain the relation of soul and body as in conflict, with light casting out warmth. A close look at the text, however, reveals that Plotinus uses each image to correct the limitations of the other. Thus, since the soul is incorporeal, it is actually more transcendent than light and as activating the body is more completely present than warmth. Similarly, recent commentators are quick to take the related impassibility of the soul as implying a Cartesian gap between body and soul. The problem Plotinus faces, however, is that his description of the soul's pervasive presence in the body jeopardizes its impassibility as in the intelligible. His effort then is actually to introduce a gap that preserves the soul's nature, rather than overcome a gap that would make the very existence of the body problematic. While this work confirms much recent scholarly consensus on Plotinus, many of Gurtler's interpretations and general conclusions give constructive challenges to some existing modes of understanding Plotinus' thought. The arguments and their textual evidence, with the accompanying Greek, provide the reader with direct evidence for testing these conclusions as well as appreciating the nature of Plotinus' philosophizing.
Augustine S City Of God
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Author : Gerard O'Daly
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020-08-26
Augustine S City Of God written by Gerard O'Daly and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-26 with Apologetics categories.
The City of God, written in the aftermath of the Gothic sack of Rome in AD 410, is the most influential of Augustine's works, having played a decisive role in the formation of the Christian West. Gerard O'Daly's book is the most comprehensive modern guide to it in any language.
Ancient And Medieval Concepts Of Friendship
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Author : Suzanne Stern-Gillet
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2014-11-13
Ancient And Medieval Concepts Of Friendship written by Suzanne Stern-Gillet and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-13 with Philosophy categories.
Focusing on Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics and Epicureans, and early Christian and Medieval sources, Ancient and Medieval Concepts of Friendship brings together assessments of different philosophical accounts of friendship. This volume sketches the evolution of the concept from ancient ideals of friendship applying strictly to relationships between men of high social position to Christian concepts that treat friendship as applicable to all but are concerned chiefly with the soul's relation to God—and that ascribe a secondary status to human relationships. The book concludes with two essays examining how this complex heritage was received during the Enlightenment, looking in particular to Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Hölderlin.
