Aristotle: metaphysics and practical philosophy: essays.
C. C. W. Taylor presents a selection of his essays in ancient philosophy, drawn from forty years of writings on the subject. The central theme of the volume is the moral psychology of Plato and Aristotle, with a special focus on pleasure and related concepts, an area central to Greek ethical thought. Taylor also discusses Socrates and the Greek.
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Volume XIX Winter 2000, David Sedley, Nov 30, 2000, Literary Criticism, 360 pages. Essays discuss recent scholarly developments in the discipline of ancient philosophy. Logical Matters: Essays in Ancient Philosophy II, Jonathan Barnes, Dec 13, 2012, Philosophy, 816 pages. The second volume of Jonathan.
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The sixteen essays written in honour of Jonathan Barnes for this volume reflect the impressive scope of his contributions to philosophy. Six are on knowledge, five on logic and metaphysics, five on ethics. The volume ranges widely over ancient philosophy, while also finding room for two contemporary papers on truth and vagueness. Aristotle is prominent in eight of the essays; Plato, Sextus.
Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) was an important Greek philosopher from the Socratic (or Classical) period, mainly based in Athens. He is one of the most important founding figures in Western Philosophy, and the first to create a comprehensive system of philosophy, encompassing Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics, Metaphysics, Logic and science.
An Overview of Philosophy The purpose of this philosophy article is to create a guide to important philosophical ideas spanning time, ideas, and peoples. It is both an introductory and advanced page for persons interested in any of the ideas of philosophy, and while at the moment it may be missing a couple of features, it is up to those fluent in these philosophical books to insert and revise.
His wife, literary agent Pat Kavanagh, died of a brain tumour on 20 October 2008. He lives in London. His brother, Jonathan Barnes, is a philosopher specialised in Ancient Philosophy. He is the patron of human rights organisation Freedom from Torture. (Adapted from Wikipedia.).
Our coverage reaches back to the dawn of the subject, with the best books on the Presocratics, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Aiming to challenge the western bias, we also have book recommendations for ancient Chinese philosophy, Islamic philosophy, and world philosophy. Our philosophy book recommendations continue from the ancient world up to.
Synonyms for dialectic in Free Thesaurus. Antonyms for dialectic. 10 synonyms for dialectic: debate, reasoning, discussion, logic, contention, polemics, disputation.
Gail Fine is a professor of philosophy emerita at Cornell University. She was also a visiting professor of ancient philosophy at Oxford University, and a senior research fellow at Merton College, Oxford University.
Interest in the metaphysics and logic of possible worlds goes back at least as far as Aristotle, but few books address the history of these important concepts. This volume offers new essays on the theories about the logical modalities (necessity and possibility) held by leading philosophers from.
Waldow A. (2010) Empiricism and Its Roots in the Ancient Medical Tradition. In: Wolfe C.T., Gal O. (eds) The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht.
