Philosophiehistorie als Rezeptionsgeschichte : die Reaktion auf Aristoteles' De Anima-Noetik : der frühe Hellenismus / Andreas Kamp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kamp, Andreas, 1953-

Series:

Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie ; Bd. 33.

Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie ; Bd. 33

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. De intellectu.

Aristotle.

Intellect--History.

Intellect.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Theophrastus.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : B.R. Grüner, 2001.

Summary:

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'. The present volume examines from a philosophical-historical standpoint the intellect-theory of De Anima III 4-5, which stands in the center of the Aristotelian system and composes one of the most provocative Aristotelian theories. It concentrates on the critical engagement with Aristotle's conception of nous in Theophrastus and his colleagues (Dicaearchus, Aristoxenus) and students (Demetrius of Phaleron, Menander, Erasistratus) in the Peripatos as well as in the Academic, Socratic, Epicurean and Stoic schools. The analysis of the relevant texts leads to a new assessment of Theophrastus's philosophical-historical significance in the Aristotelian tradition and documents that in early Hellenism the Aristotelian theory itself played a surprisingly limited role, so that the loss of the original Aristotelian manuscripts as reported by Strabo and Plutarch - a matter hotly debated in recent studies - was of only marginal importance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-302) and index.

ISBN:

9060323602

OCLC:

45618344