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Author : Ingemar Düring
Publisher : Humanities Press International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Aristotle and Plato in the Mid-fourth Century written by Ingemar Düring and published by Humanities Press International. This book was released on 1960 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Giovanni Reale
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791405161
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A History of Ancient Philosophy II written by Giovanni Reale and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Reale presents Plato and Aristotle. At the center of Reale's interpretation of Plato is the fulcrum of the supersensible, the metaphysical discovery that Plato presented as a result of the Second Voyage. This discovery of the supersensible is, in Reale's view, not only the fundamental phase of ancient thought, but it also constitutes a milestone on the path of western philosophy. Reale presents Plato in three different dimensions: the theoretic, the mystical-religious, and the political. Each of these components takes on meaning from the Second Voyage. In addition, Reale has shown that only in the light of the Unwritten Doctrines handed down through the indirect tradition, do these three components, and the Second Voyage itself, acquire their full meaning, and only in this way is a unitary conception of Plato's thought achieved. The interpretation of Aristotle that Reale proposes depends on his interpretation of Plato. Aristotle read without preconceptions is not the antithesis of Plato. Reale points out that Aristotle was unique among thinkers close to Plato, in being the one who developed, at least in part, his Second Voyage. The systematic-unitary interpretation of Aristotle which Reale has previously supported converges with the new systematic-unitary interpretation of Plato. Certain doctrinal positions which are usually reserved to treatments in monographs will be explored, because only in this way can the two distinctive traits of Aristotle's thought emerge: the way in which he tries to overcome and confirm the Socratic-Platonic positions, and the way in which he formally creates the system of philosophical knowledge.
Author : Frans de Haas
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780191553929
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)
Download or read book Aristotle's On Generation and Corruption I Book 1 written by Frans de Haas and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2004-09-23 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jaap Mansfeld and Frans de Haas bring together in this volume a distinguished international team of ancient philosophers, presenting a systematic, chapter-by-chapter study of one of the key texts in Aristotle's science and metaphysics: the first book of On Generation and Corruption. In GC I Aristotle provides a general outline of physical processes such as generation and corruption, alteration, and growth, and inquires into their differences. He also discusses physical notions such as contact, action and passion, and mixture. These notions are fundamental to Aristotle's physics and cosmology, and more specifically to his theory of the four elements and their transformations. Moreover, references to GC elsewhere in the Aristotelian corpus show that in GC I Aristotle is doing heavy conceptual groundwork for more refined applications of these notions in, for example, the psychology of perception and thought, and the study of animal generation and corruption. Ultimately, biology is the goal of the series of enquiries in which GC I demands a position of its own immediately after the Physics. The contributors deal with questions of structure and text constitution and provide thought-provoking discussions of each chapter of GC I. New approaches to the issues of how to understand first matter, and how to evaluate Aristotle's notion of mixture are given ample space. Throughout, Aristotle's views of the theories of the Presocratics and Plato are shown to be crucial in understanding his argument.
Author : Richard McKirahan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136236090
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Plato and Socrates (RLE: Plato) written by Richard McKirahan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This valuable work of reference provides a comprehensive bibliography on all scholarly work that was published on Plato and Socrates during the years 1958-73. It thus forms an important addition to Harold Cherniss’s bibliography, which covered the years 1950-7. The author has sought to include all materials primarily concerned with Socrates and Plato, together with other works which make a contribution to our understanding of the two philosophers. The bibliography is arranged by topic and there are cross-references at the end of each section. The works in each category are arranged chronologically and then alphabetically (by author) within each year. An effort has been made to distinguish when a book has had more than one edition and when an article has been reprinted. Additionally the author has listed reviews of books and dissertations as these have come to his attention.
Author : James Henderson Collins II
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190266546
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Exhortations to Philosophy written by James Henderson Collins II and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the literary strategies which the first professional philosophers used to market their respective disciplines. Philosophers of fourth-century BCE Athens developed the emerging genre of the "protreptic" (literally, "turning" or "converting"). Simply put, protreptic discourse uses a rhetoric of conversion that urges a young person to adopt a specific philosophy in order to live a good life. The author argues that the fourth-century philosophers used protreptic discourses to market philosophical practices and to define and legitimize a new cultural institution: the school of higher learning (the first in Western history). Specifically, the book investigates how competing educators in the fourth century produced protreptic discourses by borrowing and transforming traditional and contemporary "voices" in the cultural marketplace. They aimed to introduce and promote their new schools and define the new professionalized discipline of "philosophy." While scholars have typically examined the discourses and practices of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle in isolation from one another, this study rather combines philosophy, narratology, genre theory, and new historicism to focus on the discursive interaction between the three philosophers: each incorporates the discourse of his competitors into his protreptics. Appropriating and transforming the discourses of their competition, these intellectuals created literary texts that introduced their respective disciplines to potential students.
Author : Anton-Hermann Chroust
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317380665
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Aristotle: New Light on His Life and On Some of His Lost Works, Volume 2 written by Anton-Hermann Chroust and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1973. Aristotle’s early works probably belong to the formative era of his philosophic thought and as such contribute vitally to the understanding and evaluation of the development of his philosophy. This book shows that the philosophy propagated in these lost works indicates an undeniable Platonism, and thus seems to conflict with the basic doctrines in the traditional treatises collected in the Corpus Aristotelicum. Was the author of the lost early works and the later preserved treatises one and the same person, or were some of these treatises written by members of the Early Peripatus? This, the second of two volumes, discusses in detail certain decisive aspects of Aristotle’s early works. Fascinating hypotheses and conjectures put forward here provoke discussion and further investigation in the ‘Aristotelian Problem’.
Author : Curtis N Johnson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349208760
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Aristotle’s Theory of the State written by Curtis N Johnson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-07-25 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Errol G. Katayama
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791443187
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Aristotle on Artifacts written by Errol G. Katayama and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates Aristotle's views on the ontological status of artifacts in the Metaphysics, with implications for a variety of metaphysical problems.
Author : Dominic O'Meara
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 081323090X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Platonic Investigations written by Dominic O'Meara and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers is devoted to the significance of particular formal and literary aspects of the Platonic dialogues.
Author : Randall R. Curren
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742584011
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Aristotle on the Necessity of Public Education written by Randall R. Curren and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2000-11-22 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle regarded law and education as the two fundamental and deeply interdependent tools of political art, making the use of education by the statesman a topic of the first importance in his practical philosophy. The present work develops the first comprehensive treatment of this neglected topic, and assesses the importance of Aristotle's defense of public education for current debates about school choice and privatization, and educational equality.
Author : John B. Morrall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136526536
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Aristotle written by John B. Morrall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1977 this volume is the only account published in English in the 20th century to be exclusively devoted to an interpretation of Aristotle's political thought (as distinct from commentaries, translations and works on Aristotelean philosophy in general). It places Aristotle in his background of the Greek political experience.
Author : Mary Louise Gill
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691222215
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Aristotle on Substance written by Mary Louise Gill and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a fundamental tension in Aristotle's metaphysics: how can an entity such as a living organisma composite generated through the imposition of form on preexisting matterhave the conceptual unity that Aristotle demands of primary substances? Mary Louise Gill bases her treatment of the problem of unity, and of Aristotle's solution, on a fresh interpretation of the relation between matter and form. Challenging the traditional understanding of Aristotelian matter, she argues that material substances are subverted by matter and maintained by form that controls the matter to serve a positive end. The unity of material substances thus involves a dynamic relation between resistant materials and directive ends. Aristotle on Substance offers both a general account of matter, form, and substantial unity and a specific assessment of particular Aristotelian arguments. At every point, Gill engages Aristotle on his own philosophical ground through the detailed analysis of central, and often controversial, texts from the Metaphysics, Physics, On Generation and Corruption, De Anima, De Caelo, and the biological works. The result is a coherent, firmly grounded rethinking of Aristotle's central metaphysical concepts and of his struggle toward a fully consistent theory of material substances.
Author : John Patrick Lynch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520021945
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Aristotle's School; a Study of a Greek Educational Institution written by John Patrick Lynch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William H. F. Altman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498529526
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book The Guardians on Trial written by William H. F. Altman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a conception of Reading Order introduced and developed in his Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic (Lexington; 2012) and The Guardians in Action: Plato the Teacher and the Post-Republic Dialogues from Timaeus to Theaetetus (Lexington; 2016), William H. F. Altman now completes his study of Plato’s so-called “late dialogues” by showing that they include those that depict the trial and death of Socrates. According to Altman, it is not Order of Composition but Reading Order that makes Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, Crito, and Phaedo “late dialogues,” and he shows why Plato’s decision to interpolate the notoriously “late” Sophist and Statesman between Euthyphro and Apology deserves more respect from interpreters. Altman explains this interpolation—and another, that places Laws between Crito and Phaedo—as part of an ongoing test Plato has created for his readers that puts “the Guardians on Trial.” If we don’t recognize that Socrates himself is the missing Philosopher that the Eleatic Stranger never actually describes—and also the antithesis of the Athenian Stranger, who leaves Athens in order to create laws for Crete—we pronounce ourselves too sophisticated to be Plato’s Guardians, and unworthy of the Socratic inheritance.
Author : John J. Cleary
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004101593
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Aristotle and Mathematics written by John J. Cleary and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1995 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Aristotle's critical reaction to the mathematical cosmology of Plato's Academy, and traces the aporetic method by which he developed his own cosmological and metaphysical views, which underpin his philosophy of mathematics.
Author : Gail Fine
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191519510
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book On Ideas written by Gail Fine and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1993-04-29 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Peri ideon (On Ideas) is the only work in which Aristotle systematically sets out and criticizes arguments for the existence of Platonic forms. Gail Fine presents the first full-length treatment in English of this important but neglected work . She asks how, and how well, and why and with what justification he favours an alternative metaphysical scheme. She also examines the significance of the Peri ideon for some central questions about Plato's theory of forms - whether, for example, there are forms corresponding to every property or only to some, then to which ones; whether forms are universals, particulars, or both; and whether they are meanings, properties, or both. In addition to discussing the Peri ideon and its sources in Plato's dialogues, Fine also provides a general discussion of Plato's theory of forms, and of our evidence about the date, scope, and aims of the Peri ideon. While she pays careful attention to the details of the text, she also relates the issues to current philosophical concerns. The book will be valuable for anyone interested in metaphysics ancient or modern.
Author : Gail Fine
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0190639733
Total Pages : 793 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Plato written by Gail Fine and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2019 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato is the best known, and continues to be the most widely studied, of all the ancient Greek philosophers. The updated and original essays in the second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Plato provide in-depth discussions of a variety of topics and dialogues, all serving several functions at once: they survey the current academic landscape; express and develop the authors' own views; and situate those views within a range of alternatives. The result is a useful state-of-the-art reference to the man many consider the most important philosophical thinker in history. This second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Plato differs in two main ways from the first edition. First, six leading scholars of ancient philosophy have contributed entirely new chapters: Hugh Benson on the Apology, Crito, and Euthyphro; James Warren on the Protagoras and Gorgias; Lindsay Judson on the Meno; Luca Castagnoli on the Phaedo; Susan Sauvé Meyer on the Laws; and David Sedley on Plato's theology. This new edition therefore covers both dialogues and topics in more depth than the first edition did. Secondly, most of the original chapters have been revised and updated, some in small, others in large, ways.
