New essays on Plato and Aristotle / edited by Renford Bambrough.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bambrough, Renford.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Plato.

Routledge Library Editions: Plato

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Aristotle.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What can the study of the history of ancient philosophy bring to the study of contemporary philosophical problems and questions? In New Essays on Plato and Aristotle eight distinguished philosophers address topics in Greek philosophy that are connected with current philosophical issues. All the essays are original and include Gilbert Ryle on Dialectic in the Academy and R. M. Hare on Plato's indictment of mathematicians.

Contents:

Degrees of reality in Plato / Gregory Vlastos

Plato and the mathematicians / R.M. Hare

Dialectic in the Academy / Gilbert Ryle

Aristotle on the snares of ontology / G.E.L. Owen

Aristotle's conception of substance / D.M. MacKinnon

Aristotle's distinction between Energeia and Kinesis / J.L. Ackrill

Thought and action in Aristotle / G.E.M. Anscombe

Aristotle on justice : a paradigm of philosophy / Renford Bambrough.

Notes:

First published in 1965 by Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 02, 2013).

ISBN:

1-136-23637-6

0-203-10166-9

1-283-84203-3

1-136-23638-4

9780203101667

OCLC:

821173499