Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoreanism in the First Century BC : New Directions for Philosophy
Malcolm. Schofield
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (332 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 The texts of Plato and Aristotle in the first century bc; Text-based philosophy; Plato's text; The fate of Aristotle's books; Andronicus and the Aristotelian corpus; The impact of Andronicus' canon; Conclusion; Chapter 2 Platonist approaches to Aristotle: from Antiochus of Ascalon to Eudorus of Alexandria (and beyond); Antiochus; After Antiochus: Aristo and Cratippus; Eudorus; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Boethus' Aristotelian ontology; Boethus' criterion of substantiality; 1. Boethus' theory of substance and predication. - 2. Boethus on inherence3. A confirmation: 'substance', 'relative' (sic) and 'having' according to Boethus; Alexander of Aphrodisias against Boethus on substance; 1. The parts of the substance are substances; 2. A new theory of inherence; Boethus again on the non-substantiality of the form; 1. Boethus on the category of the form; 2. Boethus on what it is to be a subject; Conclusion: Boethus' having vs. Stoic sayable; Chapter 4 Aristotelianism in the first century bc: Xenarchus of Seleucia; Xenarchus' criticism of the doctrine of the fifth substance. - Beyond Xenarchus' criticism of the doctrine of the fifth substanceXenarchus and Aristotle's ethics; Xenarchus and the return to Aristotle in the first century; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Posidonius as historian of philosophy: an interpretation of Plutarch, de Animae Procreatione in Timaeo 22, 1023b-c; Introduction; 'The being of the limits'; The Platonic 'soul' as reason; Mathematicising Platonic 'reason'; Chapter 6 Asclepiades of Bithynia and Heraclides Ponticus: medical Platonism?; Chapter 7 The eclectic Pythagoreanism of Alexander Polyhistor; Introduction; Text and context. - Eudorus and Aristotle's categoriesConcluding remarks; Chapter 9 Cicero and the Timaeus; Chapter 10 Plato's Laws and Cicero's de Legibus; Cicero's Plato; Plato's preambles: law, virtue and happiness; Cicero on law and virtue; Laws for the best state; Conclusion; Chapter 11 Of Cicero's Plato: fictions, Forms, foundations; Thinking perfection: ideal types and forms in Plato; Historical perfection in the 50s BC; Ascent to the Forms: Cicero's Epanabathmos; Forms and their function: philosophy and politics; Conclusion: why the shift?; Bibliography; Index of passages; General index. - Philosophical content and characterPrinciples; From numbers to the formed universe; Equality of opposite powers: light dark, hot cold, dry moist (D.L. 8.26); Air and aether, heat, divinity and the source of life (D.L. 8.26-8); Soul, reproduction, embryology (D.L. 8.28-9); The human soul (D.L. 8.29); Eschatology and rituals; Conclusions; Chapter 8 Pythagoreanising Aristotle: Eudorus and the systematisation of Platonism; Eudorus the 'academic'; Eudorus and the Pythagorean 'Timaeus' on the world soul and the generation of the universe; Platonising Pythagoras, Pythagoreanising Aristotle. - Presents an up-to-date overview of the new directions taken by ancient philosophy in the first century BC.
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| ISBN | 9781107020115
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