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Author: Eckhard Kessler
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789004207028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing Alexander of Aphrodisias through the Aristotelian tradition from the second to the sixteenth century, this book discovers an almost forgotten leading figure in the fervently disputed development of psychology and natural philosophy in early modern times.
Author: E.W. Dooley
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-04-10
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1780933630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlexander of Aphrodisias was the greatest exponent of Aristotelianism after Aristotle, and his commentary on Metaphysics 1-5 is the most substantial commentary on the Metaphysics to have survived from antiquity. The commentary on book 1 has the further interest that over half of it is devoted to Aristotle's discussion of Plato. Aristotle's battery of objectives to the theory of Ideas is spelled out with fragmentary quotations and paraphrases from four of Aristotle's lost works, and we are given an extended account of Plato's 'unwritten doctrines' according to which the Ideas are numbers, namely the One and Indefinite Dyad. The deliberations for and against the theory of Ideas recorded by Alexander are more detailed than anything in Plato's dialogues and tell us more than any other source how they were conceived in Plato's most developed theory.
Author: Alexander of Aphrodisias
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2021-12-06
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 3110731320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first of a two-volume edition of Alexander of Aphrodisias’ commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics. The new edition, which includes a philosophical and philological introduction, as well as notes to textcritical issues, is based on a critical evaluation of the entire manuscript tradition of the commentary. It also takes into account its indirect tradition and the Latin translation of Juan Ginès Sepúlveda.
Author: Alexander Aphrodisiensis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2014-09-05
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 3110978997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKR. W. Sharples provides a new edition, with introduction and commentary in English, of the Greek text. The Mantissa is a collection of short discussions, transmitted as a supplement to the treatise On the Soul by the Aristotelian commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias (c.200 AD). The collection includes discussion of a range of topics, among them the nature of soul and intellect, theories of how seeing takes place, issues in ethics, and the nature of fate. The text is based upon a new collation of the principal manuscript, the ninth century Venetus Marcianus graecus 258, and the apparatus corrects Bruns' misreportings of the principal manuscript and of the others that he used. Account has also been taken of the medieval Arabic and Latin versions of some of the sections which circulated independently, notably On Intellect which had a substantial influence on medieval philosophy. The introduction is chiefly concerned with the manuscripts and the relation between them. The commentary is based on the notes to the editor's English translation of the work (London: Duckworth and Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004); however, the commentary also takes into account more recent work on the collection by various scholars.
Author: Michiel Meeusen
Publisher: Studies in Ancient Medicine
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9789004437654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides a set of in-depth case studies about the role of questions and answers (Q&A) in ancient Greek medical writing from its Hippocratic beginnings up to, and including, Late Antiquity.
Author: Alexander (of Aphrodisias.)
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 244
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Author: Genequand
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-08-04
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9004453164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an edition of the Arabic versions of Alexander of Aphrodisias 'Treatise on the Principles of the Universe, with English translation, introduction and commentary.
Author: Johannes M.Van Ophuijsen
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-04-10
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1780938721
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAristotle's Topics is about dialectic, which can be understood as a debate between two people or the inner debate of one thinker with himself. Its purposes range from philosophical training to discovering the first principles of thought. Its arguments concern the four predicables (definition, property, genus and accident). Aristotle explains how these four fit into his ten categories, and in Book 1 begins to outline strategies for debate, such as the definition of ambiguity. Alexander's commentary on Book 1 discusses how to define Aristotelian syllogistic argument, why it stands up against the rival Stoic theory of interference, and what is the character of inductive interference and of rhetorical argument. He distinguishes inseparable accidents such as the whiteness of snow from defining differentiae such as its being frozen, and considers how these fit into the scheme of categories. He speaks of dialectic as a stochastic discipline in which success is to be judged not by victory but by skill in argument, a view parallel to that sometimes taken in antiquity of medical practice. And he investigates the subject of ambiguity which had also been richly developed since Aristotle by the rival Stoic school.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-08-31
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9004436383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers a collection of papers about the notions of fate, providence, and free will, as developed and debated in philosophy and religion in the early Imperial age (ca. 31 BCE-250 CE).
Author: William V. Harris
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-09-04
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9004379509
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPain and Pleasure in Classical Times attempts to blaze a trail for the cross-disciplinary humanistic study of pain and pleasure, with literature scholars, historians and philosophers all setting out to understand how the Greeks and Romans experienced, managed and reasoned about the sensations and experiences they felt as painful or pleasurable. The book is intended to provoke discussion of a wide range of problems in the cultural history of antiquity. It addresses both the physicality of erôs and illness, and physiological and philosophical doctrines, especially hedonism and anti-hedonism in their various forms. Fine points of terminology (Greek is predictably rich in this area) receive careful attention. Authors in question run from Homer to (among others) the Hippocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Seneca, Plutarch, Galen and the Aristotle-commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias.
