The Medieval Reception of Book Zeta of Aristotle’s Metaphysics (2 vol. set)
The Medieval Reception of Book Zeta of Aristotle’s Metaphysics (2 vol. set)

Author: Gabriele Galluzzo

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-11-09

Total Pages: 1401

ISBN-13: 9004235027

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Focusing on the medieval reception of Book Zeta of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Volume One of this work offers an unprecedented and philosophically oriented study of medieval ontology against the background of the current metaphysical debate on the nature of material objects. Volume Two makes available to scholars one of the culminating points in the medieval reception of Aristotle’s metaphysical thought by presenting the first critical edition of Book VII of Paul of Venice’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics (1420-1424).

Aristotle
Aristotle

Author: Jonathan Lear

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1988-02-11

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780521347624

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This is a 1988 philosophical introduction to Aristotle, and Professor Lear starts where Aristotle himself starts. The first sentence of the Metaphysics states that all human beings by their nature desire to know. But what is it for us to be animated by this desire in this world? What is it for a creature to have a nature; what is our human nature; what must the world be like to be intelligible; and what must we be like to understand it systematically? Through a consideration of these questions Professor Lear introduces us to the essence of Aristotle's philosophy and guides us through the central Aristotelian texts - selected from the Physics, Metaphysics, Ethics, Politics and from the biological and logical works. The book is written in a direct, lucid style which engages the reader with the themes in an active, participatory manner.

Medieval Philosophy as Transcendental Thought
Medieval Philosophy as Transcendental Thought

Author: Jan Aertsen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-03-02

Total Pages: 777

ISBN-13: 9004225846

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The origin of transcendental thought is to be sought in medieval philosophy. This book provides for the first time a complete history of the doctrine of the transcendentals and shows its importance for the understanding of philosophy in the Middle Ages.

The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy
The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy

Author: Juhana Toivanen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-10-12

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9004438467

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In The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy Juhana Toivanen investigates the foundations of human social life through the Aristotelian notion of ‘political animal’, as it was used in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

A Companion to Aristotle
A Companion to Aristotle

Author: Georgios Anagnostopoulos

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-03-05

Total Pages: 674

ISBN-13: 1118610636

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The Blackwell Companion to Aristotle provides in-depth studies of the main themes of Aristotle's thought, from art to zoology. The most comprehensive single volume survey of the life and work of Aristotle Comprised of 40 newly commissioned essays from leading experts Coves the full range of Aristotle's work, from his 'theoretical' inquiries into metaphysics, physics, psychology, and biology, to the practical and productive "sciences" such as ethics, politics, rhetoric, and art

A Companion to the Latin Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle’s Metaphysics
A Companion to the Latin Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle’s Metaphysics

Author: Gabriele Galluzzo

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-10-31

Total Pages: 701

ISBN-13: 900426129X

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Few philosophical books have been so influential in the development of Western thought as Aristotle’s Metaphysics. For centuries Aristotle’s most celebrated work has been regarded as a source of inspiration as well as the starting point for every investigation into the structure of reality. Not surprisingly, the topics discussed in the book – the scientific status of ontology and metaphysics, the foundations of logical truths, the notions of essence and existence, the nature of material objects and their properties, the status of mathematical entities, just to mention some – are still at the centre of the current philosophical debate and are likely to excite philosophical minds for many years to come. This volume reconstructs in fourteen chapters a particular phase in the long history of the Metaphysics by focusing on the medieval reception of Aristotle’s masterpiece, specifically from its introduction in the Latin West in the twelfth through fifteenth centuries. Contributors include: Marta Borgo, Matteo di Giovanni, Amos Bertolacci, Silvia Donati, Gabriele Galluzzo, Alessandro D. Conti, Sten Ebbesen, Fabrizio Amerini, Giorgio Pini, Roberto Lambertini, William O. Duba, Femke J. Kok, and Paul J.J.M. Bakker.

Classical Arabic Philosophy
Classical Arabic Philosophy

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Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 2007-03-15

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 1603840338

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This volume introduces the major classical Arabic philosophers through substantial selections from the key works (many of which appear in translation for the first time here) in each of the fields--including logic, philosophy of science, natural philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and politics--to which they made significant contributions. An extensive Introduction situating the works within their historical, cultural, and philosophical contexts offers support to students approaching the subject for the first time, as well as to instructors with little or no formal training in Arabic thought. A glossary, select bibliography, and index are also included.