Peripatetic philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200 : an introduction and collection of sources in translation / [edited by] Robert W. Sharples ; with indexes prepared by Myrto Hatzimichali.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sharples, R. W., editor.

Series:

Cambridge source books in post-Hellenistic philosophy.

Cambridge source books in post-Hellenistic philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Ancient.

Peripatetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 309 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides a collection of sources, many of them fragmentary and previously scattered and hard to access, for the development of Peripatetic philosophy in the later Hellenistic period and the early Roman Empire. It also supplies the background against which the first commentator on Aristotle from whom extensive material survives, Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. AD 200), developed his interpretations which continue to be influential even today. Many of the passages are here translated into English for the first time, including the whole of the summary of Peripatetic ethics attributed to 'Arius Didymus'.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. People; 2. The rediscovery of Aristotle's works?; 3. A Hellenistic account of Aristotle's philosophy; 4. Philosophy and rhetoric; 5. The starting-point and parts of philosophy; 6. Commentaries: logic and ontology; 7. The categories: (i) placement and title; 8. The categories: (ii) words or things or words as signifying things?; 9. The categories: (iii) per se and relative: ten categories or two?; 10. The categories: (iv) time and place; 11. On interpretation; 12. Ontology: form and matter; 13. Logic; 14. Theory of knowledge. Ethics; 15. An account of Peripatetic ethics: Stobaeus, 'doxography C'; 16. Emotions; 17. The primary natural things: oikeiōsis; 18. Bodily and external goods and happiness. Physics; 19. The nature of time and place; 20. The eternity of the world; 21. The heavens; 22. God and providence; 23. Fate, choice and what depends on us; 24. Soul; 25. Generation; 26. Sensation; 27. Intellect; Bibliography; Index of sources; Index of passages cited; Index of personal names (ancient); General index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0-511-85090-5

1-107-21143-3

1-282-81852-X

9786612818523

0-511-78150-4

0-511-90149-6

0-511-90070-8

0-511-90228-X

0-511-79913-6

0-511-79773-7

OCLC:

670411046