Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

In his teachings and through his choice of the dialogue-form as a mode of communication, Plato emphasized the communal aspect of intellectual work.

In an age which is supposedly experiencing a sexual revolution, a volume of thoughtful essays on eros is not only not out of place but perhaps is a positive contribution to the understanding of contempor- ary man.

The principles used in the translation of the Ethics are the same as those in the translations of the Physics and the Metaphysics, and their main function is to help the reader get Aristotle's meaning as accurately as possible.

During the last half century there has been revolutionary progress in logic and in logic-related areas such as linguistics.

The present monograph on Plato's Sophist developed from series of lectures given over a number of years to honours and graduate phi- losophy classes in the University of Waterloo.

Philosophia facta est, Quae philologia fuit.

This book is a slightly emended version of a dissertation presented at the University of Hull in 1972.

The first edition of this book appeared in 1953; the second, revised and enlarged, in 1960.

Philosophy finds itself "e;between tradition and another beginning.

As with almost all books, this one took much longer to complete than we thought when we started.

In his Metaphysics, Aristotle claims that he is seeking to establish a science of being.

others in his discipline tend not to bring their studies to bear on the substance of the dialogues.

The present book is an exp]oration of some basic issues of Kant's moral phi- losophy.

Plato's earthly life ended in the year 347 B.

The objectives of this book are to provide a new translation of Plato's M eno together with a series of studies on its philcisophical argument in the light of recent secondary literature.

The present work is an attempt to analyse critically Plato's views on mind and body and more particularly on the mind-body relationship within the wider setting of Plato's metaphysics.

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Our Greek colleagues, in Greece and abroad, must know (indeed they do know) how pleasant it is to recognize the renaissance of the philosophy of science among them with this fine collection.

Aristotle's modal syllogistic has been an object of study ever since the time of Theophrastus; but these studies (apart from an intense flowering in the Middle Ages) have been somewhat desultory.

This distinctive collection of original articles features contributions from many of the leading scholars of ancient Greek philosophy.

This highly personal account of a lifetime's spiritual and philosophical enquiry charts the author's journey of faith through contemporary culture.

This volume contains outstanding studies by some of the best scholars in ancient Greek Philosophy on key topics in Socratic, Platonic, and Aristotelian thought.

The controversy of flux and stasis as the groundwork of reality of Greek ancient philosophy reached its crux in the all encompassing doctrine of the logos by Heraclitus of Ephesus.

In recent years, there has been renewed interest in Pyrrhonism among both philosophers and historians of philosophy.

Grow in wisdom with this practical guide to Stoic philosophy for modern day-to-day lifeDiscover the path to a more contented, fulfilled life through the teachings of Stoic philosophers, from Marcus Aurelius to Epictetus.

Aristotle's modal syllogistic is his study of patterns of reasoning about necessity and possibility.

Seneca's Letters from a Stoic are moral letters to his friend Lucilius, written over two thousand years ago.

This Element adapts Aristotle''s ancient doctrine of hylomorphism for contemporary philosophy of biology to explain the unity of living organisms.

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Whereas the history of demography as a social science has been amply explored, that of the construction of the concept of population has been neglected.

No single theoretician provoked a greater tradition of the reception of his thought throughout changing times and across diverse cultures than did Aristotle, and so Hegel, who calls him the ‘teacher of the human race’, well describes the man known for ages simply as ‘the philosopher’.

Entgegen der Ansicht, Aristoteles sei als Sprachphilosoph und -wissenschaftler "e;nur sehr wenig uber Platon hinausgekommen"e; (H.

The philosophy of Plotinus is usually depicted as a quest for the absolute, outside and beyond the world of human knowledge and experience.

Obwohl nach der Verurteilung von 1277 der Lateinische Averroismus als eigenstandige Schule verschwand, entstanden dennoch in den Jahren zwischen 1280 und 1300 in Paris neue Aristoteles-Kommentare, die ein lebhaftes Interesse fur heterodoxe aristotelische Lehren bezeugen.

Die Entdeckung der Aristotelischen Politica muss als einschneidendes Ereignis in der Geschichte der politischen Theorien im Mittelalter verstanden werden.

Die Entdeckung der Aristotelischen Politica muss als einschneidendes Ereignis in der Geschichte der politischen Theorien im Mittelalter verstanden werden.

L’édition critique de la première question du traité (Utrum aliquis philosophus per inquisitionem philosophicam in naturali lumine ad veram humanae beatitudinis notitiam valeat pervenire) est basée sur les sept manuscrits connus, dont deux autographes.

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On March 7, 1277, Etienne Tempier, Bishop of Paris, condemned a list of 219 theological and philosophical theses.

Greek Skepticism examines the evolution of skeptical philosophy in ancient Greece, focusing on epistemological concerns such as knowledge, belief, and perception, while framing these inquiries within the Hellenistic era's broader philosophical challenges.

La fragilidad del bien es su obra más celebrada y marca ya un hito en los estudios clásicos y en el análisis de la relación entre la ética, la tragedia y la filosofía griegas.