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Elias And David Introductions To Philosophy With Olympiodorus Introduction To Logic
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Book Synopsis Elias and David: Introductions to Philosophy with Olympiodorus: Introduction to Logic by : Sebastian Gertz
Download or read book Elias and David: Introductions to Philosophy with Olympiodorus: Introduction to Logic written by Sebastian Gertz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three ancient philosophical introductions translated in this volume flesh out our picture of what it would have been like to sit in a first-year Philosophy course in ancient Alexandria. Ammonius (AD 445-517/26) set up a new teaching programme in Alexandria with up to six introductions to the philosophy curriculum, which made it far more accessible, and encouraged its spread from Greek to other cultures. This volume's three introductory texts include one by his student Olympiodorus and one each by Olympiodorus' students Elias and David. Elias' Introductions to Philosophy starts with six definitions of Philosophy, to which David adds replies to the sceptical question whether there is such a thing as Philosophy. Olympiodorus' text translated here is an Introduction to Logic, which is just one of the three introductions he wrote himself.
Book Synopsis Elias and David: Introductions to Philosophy with Olympiodorus: Introduction to Logic by : Sebastian Gertz
Download or read book Elias and David: Introductions to Philosophy with Olympiodorus: Introduction to Logic written by Sebastian Gertz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three ancient philosophical introductions translated in this volume flesh out our picture of what it would have been like to sit in a first-year Philosophy course in ancient Alexandria. Ammonius (AD 445-517/26) set up a new teaching programme in Alexandria with up to six introductions to the philosophy curriculum, which made it far more accessible, and encouraged its spread from Greek to other cultures. This volume's three introductory texts include one by his student Olympiodorus and one each by Olympiodorus' students Elias and David. Elias' Introductions to Philosophy starts with six definitions of Philosophy, to which David adds replies to the sceptical question whether there is such a thing as Philosophy. Olympiodorus' text translated here is an Introduction to Logic, which is just one of the three introductions he wrote himself.
Author :Associate Professor in Late Antique and Early Christian Studies Michael W Champion Publisher :Oxford University Press ISBN 13 :0198869266 Total Pages :272 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (988 download)
Book Synopsis Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic Education by : Associate Professor in Late Antique and Early Christian Studies Michael W Champion
Download or read book Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic Education written by Associate Professor in Late Antique and Early Christian Studies Michael W Champion and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic Education approaches fundamental questions about the role and function of education in late antiquity through a detailed study of the thought of Dorotheus of Gaza, a sixth-century Palestinian monk. It illumines the thought of a significant figure in Palestinian monasticism, clarifies relationships between ascetic and classical education, and contributes to debates about how different educational projects related to late-antique cultural change. Dorotheus appropriates and reconfigures classical discourses of rhetoric, philosophy, and medicine and builds on earlier ascetic traditions. Education is a powerful site for the reconfiguration and reproduction of culture, and Dorotheus' educational programme can be read as a microcosm of the wider culture he aims to construct partly through his adaptation and representation of classical and ascetic discourses. Key features of his educational programme include the role of the notion of godlikeness, the governing role of humility as an epistemic virtue intended to organize affective and ethical development, and his notion of education as life-long habituation. For Dorotheus, education is irreducibly affective and transformative rather than merely informative at the individual and communal scales. His epistemology and ethics are set within an account of the divine plan of salvation which is intended to provide a narrative framework through which his students come to understand the world and their place in it. His account of ways of knowing and ordering knowledge, ethics and moral development, emotions of education, and relationships between affect, cognition, and ethical action aims towards transformation of his students and their communities.
Book Synopsis Ammonius: Interpretation of Porphyry’s Introduction to Aristotle’s Five Terms by : Michael Chase
Download or read book Ammonius: Interpretation of Porphyry’s Introduction to Aristotle’s Five Terms written by Michael Chase and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of his six introductions to philosophy, widely used by students in Alexandria, Ammonius' lecture on Porphyry was recorded in writing by his students in the commentary translated here. Along with five other types of introductions (three of which are translated in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle volume Elias and David: Introductions to Philosophy with Olympiodorus: Introduction to Logic) it made Greek philosophy more accessible to other cultures. These introductions became standard in Ammonius' school and included a popular set of five or more definitions of philosophy, some of them drawn from commentaries on quite different works. Ammonius' lecture expounded the most celebrated and discussed previous introduction written by Porphyry 200 years earlier, which was devoted to five main technical terms of Aristotle's logic. Ammonius was sympathetic to Porphyry because they both sought to harmonise the views of Plato and Aristotle with each other, arguing in different ways that the two philosophers did not disagree about the nature of universals. Porphyry's introduction was a hugely influential work for centuries after its composition, and this commentary by Ammonius served to maintain its position at the centre of later schools of philosophy. This English translation of Ammonius' work is the latest volume in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series and makes this philosophical work accessible to a modern readership. The translation is accompanied by an introduction, comprehensive commentary notes, bibliography, glossary of translated terms and a subject index.
Book Synopsis Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception by : Melina G. Mouzala
Download or read book Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception written by Melina G. Mouzala and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Neoplatonic Pedagogy and the Alcibiades I by : James M. Ambury
Download or read book Neoplatonic Pedagogy and the Alcibiades I written by James M. Ambury and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many philosophers in the ancient world shared a unitary vision of philosophy – meaning 'love of wisdom' – not just as a theoretical discipline, but as a way of life. Specifically, for the late Neoplatonic thinkers, philosophy began with self-knowledge, which led to a person's inner conversion or transformation into a lover, a human being erotically striving toward the totality of the real. This metamorphosis amounted to a complete existential conversion. It was initiated by learned guides who cultivated higher and higher levels of virtue in their students, leading, in the end, to their vision of the Good, or the One. In this book, James M. Ambury closely analyses two central texts in this tradition: the commentaries by Proclus (412–485 AD) and Olympiodorus (495–560 AD) on the Platonic Alcibiades I. Ambury's powerful study illuminates the way philosophy was conceived during a crucial period of its history, in the lecture halls of late antiquity.
Book Synopsis Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition by : Byron MacDougall
Download or read book Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition written by Byron MacDougall and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory's festal orations are foundational for Byzantine literature. This book shows how besides his priestly role, Gregory plays that of a rhetor performing philosophy for a festival audience, channeling traditions of Classical philosophy and the Second Sophistic into Christian culture.
Book Synopsis Later Platonists and their Heirs among Christians, Jews, and Muslims by : Eva Anagnostou
Download or read book Later Platonists and their Heirs among Christians, Jews, and Muslims written by Eva Anagnostou and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume authors working across different disciplines of late antique and medieval thought explore the reception of Platonic and Neoplatonic tenets among Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
Book Synopsis Sergius of Reshaina, Commentary on Aristotle's >Categories by : Yury Arzhanov
Download or read book Sergius of Reshaina, Commentary on Aristotle's >Categories written by Yury Arzhanov and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-07 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sergius of Reshaina (d. 536) is a major figure in the history of the Syriac reception of Aristotle's logic. He studied philosophy and medicine in the late 5th century in Alexandria with the famous Ammonius Hermeiou, whose lectures formed the basis for Sergius' main philosophical work, his extensive Commentary on the Categories. In this treatise, Sergius adapted for his Christian audience the Alexandrian educational model and exegesis of Aristotle logical writings and in this way influenced subsequent centuries of Aristotelian studies in Syriac. The commentary contains an extensive introductory part which deals with the traditional set of preliminaries (prolegomena), e.g., the general division of sciences, the scope of Aristotle's logic in general and of his treatise Categories in particular, etc. Moreover, it includes excurses in natural philosophy and contains extensive quotations from Aristotle's Physics. Thus, Sergius' treatise not only introduced the tradition of exegesis of Aristotle to the Syriac world, but provided Syriac readers with a general introduction to philosophy and logic and thus paved the way for the transmission of Greek sciences and philosophy from Alexandria to Baghdad.
Book Synopsis The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium by : Sophia Xenophontos
Download or read book The Reception of Greek Ethics in Late Antiquity and Byzantium written by Sophia Xenophontos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts, including historians, classicists, philosophers and theologians, this original collection of essays offers the first authoritative analysis of the multifaceted reception of Greek ethics in late antiquity and Byzantium (ca. 3rd-14th c.), opening up a hitherto under-explored topic in the history of Greek philosophy. The essays discuss the sophisticated ways in which moral themes and controversies from antiquity were reinvigorated and transformed by later authors to align with their philosophical and religious outlook in each period. Topics examined range from ethics and politics in Neoplatonism and ethos in the context of rhetorical theory and performance to textual exegesis on Aristotelian ethics. The volume will appeal to scholars and students in philosophy, classics, patristic theology, and those working on the history of education and the development of Greek ethics.
Book Synopsis Philosophy, Theory or Way of Life? Controversies in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by : Juliusz Domański
Download or read book Philosophy, Theory or Way of Life? Controversies in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance written by Juliusz Domański and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-07-18 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy in antiquity was conceived not as mere theory but as a way of life; but it lost its 'practicist' cast through a process that begins in the patristic era and peaks with its conversion into an academic discipline in the medieval universities under the influence of 13th-century scholasticism. Juliusz Domański sets out the reasons behind that process and shows how traces of the 'practicist' orientation survived, ultimately leading to a recovery of the ancient notion among the humanists of the Renaissance. A foreword by Pierre Hadot relates Domański’s research to his own vision of the history of philosophy.
Book Synopsis Galen's Epistemology by : R. J. Hankinson
Download or read book Galen's Epistemology written by R. J. Hankinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Galen's contributions to (mainly scientific) epistemology and their legacy in the Islamic world.
Book Synopsis Eastern Christianity in Its Texts by : Cyril Hovorun
Download or read book Eastern Christianity in Its Texts written by Cyril Hovorun and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying theological literature produced in the Christian East from the first through the 20th century, Eastern Christianity in its Texts explores different theological themes (analytical and mystical), genres (epistles, treatises, and poetry), and milieux (Greek, Armenian, Western and Eastern Syriac, Russian and Romanian). The book illustrates the evolution of the Orthodox thought, how it influenced and was influenced by intellectual, social, and political environments. It demonstrates a theology in context, and yet displays consistency in the traditions spread through different epochs and countries. The book is divided in five parts, each standing for an epoch with distinct features: formation of the Christian identity in the era before Constantine, golden age of theology in the period of Late Antiquity, the pinnacle of erudism and mysticism in the eastern Middle Ages, wrestling with the Modernity imported from the West in the 18th-19th centuries, and finally theological polyphony in the 20th century.
Book Synopsis The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity by : Lewis Ayres
Download or read book The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity written by Lewis Ayres and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for scholars and students of the ideas, literatures, and cultures of early Christianity and late antiquity, ancient philosophers, and historians of theology. It offers new perspectives on early Christian modes of knowing and ordering knowledge in relation to changing discourses, institutions, and material culture of late antiquity.
Download or read book Isaac Israeli written by Isaac Israeli and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognized as one of the earliest Jewish neo-Platonist writers, Isaac ben Solomon Israeli (ca. 855–955) influenced Muslim, Jewish, and Christian scholars through the Middle Ages. A native of Egypt who wrote in Arabic, Israeli explored definitions of such terms as imagination, sense-perception, desire, love, creation, and “coming-to-be” in his writings. This classic volume contains English translations of Israeli’s philosophical writings, including the Book of Definitions, the Book of Substances, and the Book on Spirit and Soul. Additionally, Isaac Israeli features a biographical sketch of the philosopher and extensive notes and comments on the texts, as well as a survey and appraisal of his philosophy. Restored to print for the first time in decades, Isaac Israeli will be essential reading for students and scholars of medieval philosophy and Jewish studies.
Book Synopsis Kingdoms, Empires, and Domains by : Mark A. Ragan
Download or read book Kingdoms, Empires, and Domains written by Mark A. Ragan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kingdoms, Empires, and Domains explores the history of the idea that there is more to the living world than plants and animals. Progressing chronologically through philosophical, religious, literary, and other pre-scientific traditions, leading molecular systematist Mark A. Ragan traces how transgressive creatures such as sponges, corals, algae, fungi, and diverse microscopic beings have been described, categorized, and understood throughout history. The book also explores how the concept of a "third kingdom of life" evolved within the fields of scientific botany and zoology, and continues to evolve up to the present day.
Book Synopsis Eastern Christianity and Late Antique Philosophy by :
Download or read book Eastern Christianity and Late Antique Philosophy written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of Eastern Christianity and Late Antique Philosophy will find a collection of authoritative papers from across the Neoplatonic and Eastern Christian traditions. It is only recently that scholars have started to take notice of the Eastern Christian engagement with late antique philosophical texts. This volume builds upon this new interest in order to show the dynamic nature of Neoplatonism and Eastern Christianity at a time when both faced a variety of challenges. The legacy of Greek philosophy in the Christian East fills the gap between the schools of Alexandria and Baghdad and brings into focus the intellectual history of the period. The aim of the volume is to stimulate interest in late antique philosophy and its reception in the Christian East.
