Philosophy

ISBN: 9780715638446
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
Commenting on the end of Aristotle On the Heavens Book 3, Simplicius examines Aristotle's criticisms of Platos theory of elemental chemistry in the Timaeus. Plato makes the characteristics of the four elements depend on the shapes of component... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780715637876
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
In the chapters discussed in this section of Philoponus Physics commentary Aristotle explores a range of questions about the basic structure of reality, the nature of prime matter, the principles of change, the relation between form and matter,... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780715637883
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
The Posterior Analytics is a difficult text, raising may problems concerning how to construe individual sentences, particular arguments, whole lines of argument, and different aspects of the comprehensive theory of scientific understanding tha... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780520260276
Published by : University of California Press
In late antiquity the works of Plato and Aristotle were subject to intense study, which eventually led to the development of a new literary form, the philosophical commentary. Until recently these commentaries were understood chiefly as sources... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781844651825
Published by : Acumen Publishing
This book eschews the method of most histories of ancient philosophy of addressing one thinker after another through the centuries. Instead, after a basic mapping of the territory, it takes the great themes that the Greeks were engaged in from ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781844651832
Published by : Acumen Publishing
This book eschews the method of most histories of ancient philosophy of addressing one thinker after another through the centuries. Instead, after a basic mapping of the territory, it takes the great themes that the Greeks were engaged in from ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521763769
Published by : Cambridge University Press
It has long been thought that the ancient Greeks did not take mechanics seriously as part of the workings of nature, and that therefore their natural philosophy was both primitive and marginal. In this book Sylvia Berryman challenges that assu... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521899734
Published by : Cambridge University Press
In the modern philosophical tradition, Platos Socrates has been viewed as an alienating influence on Western thought and life. In this book, Mary Nichols addresses Kierkegaards and Nietzsches criticism of Socrates and recovers the place of frie... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521873475
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This Companion presents both an introduction to the history of the ancient philosophical school of Epicureanism and also a critical account of the major areas of its philosophical interest. Chapters span the school's history from the early Hel... .... Learn More