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Author: Pavlos Kontos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-02-22
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1107161975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides the first full study of Aristotle's notion of evil and sheds light on its content, potential, and influence.
Author: Christian Pfeiffer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-07-12
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0191085308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristian Pfeiffer explores an important, but neglected topic in Aristotle's theoretical philosophy: the theory of bodies. A body is a three-dimensionally extended and continuous magnitude bounded by surfaces. This notion is distinct from the notion of a perceptible or physical substance. Substances have bodies, that is to say, they are extended, their parts are continuous with each other and they have boundaries, which demarcate them from their surroundings. Pfeiffer argues that body, thus understood, has a pivotal role in Aristotle's natural philosophy. A theory of body is a presupposed in, e.g., Aristotle's account of the infinite, place, or action and passion, because their being bodies explains why things have a location or how they can act upon each other. The notion of body can be ranked among the central concepts for natural science which are discussed in Physics III-IV. The book is the first comprehensive and rigorous account of the features substances have in virtue of being bodies. It provides an analysis of the concept of three-dimensional magnitude and related notions like boundary, extension, contact, continuity, often comparing it to modern conceptions of it. Both the structural features and the ontological status of body is discussed. This makes it significant for scholars working on contemporary metaphysics and mereology because the concept of a material object is intimately tied to its spatial or topological properties.
Author: Aristotle
Publisher: Aeterna Press
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn the Heavens (Greek: Περὶ οὐρανοῦ, Latin: De Caelo or De Caelo et Mundo) is Aristotle’s chief cosmological treatise: written in 350 BC it contains his astronomical theory and his ideas on the concrete workings of the terrestrial world. It should not be confused with the spurious work On the Universe (De mundo, also known as On the Cosmos).
Author: Benjamin Morison
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002-02-07
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 0199247919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAims to explain as carefully as possible Aristotle's account of place given in the Physics, Book IV, Chs. 1-5. Also aims to rehabilitate it as a piece of philosophy, after many centuries of its being dismissed as inadequate. Discusses the importance of the concept of place to natural philosophy, including the role of so-called 'natural' places in the explanation of the natural motion of the elements.
Author: Giles Pearson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-08-30
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1139561014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesire is a central concept in Aristotle's ethical and psychological works, but he does not provide us with a systematic treatment of the notion itself. This book reconstructs the account of desire latent in his various scattered remarks on the subject and analyses its role in his moral psychology. Topics include: the range of states that Aristotle counts as desires (orexeis); objects of desire (orekta) and the relation between desires and envisaging prospects; desire and the good; Aristotle's three species of desire: epithumia (pleasure-based desire), thumos (retaliatory desire) and boulêsis (good-based desire - in a narrower notion of 'good' than that which connects desire more generally to the good); Aristotle's division of desires into rational and non-rational; Aristotle and some current views on desire; and the role of desire in Aristotle's moral psychology. The book will be of relevance to anyone interested in Aristotle's ethics or psychology.
Author: Aristotle
Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Published: 2021-11-13
Total Pages: 77
ISBN-13: 3986772650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn Generation and Corruption Aristotle - On Generation and Corruption, also known as On Coming to Be and Passing Away is a treatise by Aristotle. Like many of his texts, it is both scientific and philosophic (although not necessarily scientific in the modern sense). The philosophy, though, is essentially empirical; as in all Aristotle's works, the deductions made about the unexperienced and unobservable are based on observations and real experiences.
Author: Paolo Crivelli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-09-30
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1139455664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAristotle's theory of truth, which has been the most influential account of the concept of truth from Antiquity onwards, spans several areas of philosophy: philosophy of language, logic, ontology and epistemology. In this 2004 book, Paolo Crivelli discusses all the main aspects of Aristotle's views on truth and falsehood. He analyses in detail the main relevant passages, addresses some well-known problems of Aristotelian semantics, and assesses Aristotle's theory from the point of view of modern analytic philosophy. In the process he discusses most of the literature on Aristotle's semantic theory to have appeared in the last two centuries. His book vindicates and clarifies the often repeated claim that Aristotle's is a correspondence theory of truth. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers working in both ancient philosophy and modern philosophy of language.
Author: Paula Gottlieb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-04-27
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 052176176X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text looks at Aristotle's claims, particularly the much-maligned doctrine of the mean.
Author: David Charles
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-03-16
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0192640887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAristotle initiated the systematic investigation of perception, the emotions, memory, desire and action, developing his own account of these phenomena and their interconnection. The Undivided Self aims to gain a philosophical understanding of his views and to examine how far they withstand critical scrutiny. Aristotle's account, it is argued, constitutes a philosophically live alternative to conventional post-Cartesian thinking about psychological phenomena and their place in a material world. Charles offers a way to dissolve, rather than solve, the mind-body problem we have inherited.
Author: Z. Bechler
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780791422397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an attack on Aristotle showing that his misplaced drive toward the consistent application of his actualistic ontology (denying the reality of all potential things) resulted in many of his major theses being essentially vacuous.
