Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200

Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200
Author: R. W. Sharples
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2010-10-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139491520

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'.

Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200

Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200
Author: R. W. Sharples
Publisher:
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780511902284

A collection of sources, including many which are here translated into English for the first time.

Later Stoicism 155 BC to AD 200

Later Stoicism 155 BC to AD 200
Author: Brad Inwood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 597
Release: 2022-05-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1107029791

The most comprehensive collection of passages from later Stoic thinkers, providing fresh translations and up-to-date commentary.

Peripatetic Philosophy in Context

Peripatetic Philosophy in Context
Author: Francesco Verde
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2022-05-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110772795

This book deals with some Aristotelian philosophers of the Hellenistic Age, ranging from Theophrastus of Eresus to Cratippus of Pergamum. The problem of knowledge, the question of time, and the doctrine of the soul are investigated by comparing these Peripatetics’ views with Aristotle’s philosophy, and above all by setting their doctrines within the broader framework of post-Aristotelian and Hellenistic philosophies (the Old Academy, Epicureanism, and Stoicism).

Cicero's De Finibus

Cicero's De Finibus
Author: Julia Annas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107074835

This book opens up Cicero's work philosophically, taking us deeper into ancient ethical debates and into Cicero's own sceptical stance.

The Measure of Greatness

The Measure of Greatness
Author: Sophia Vasalou
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2019-10-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0192577166

Magnanimity is a virtue that has led many lives. Foregrounded early on by Plato as a philosophical virtue par excellence, it became one of the crown jewels in Aristotle's account of human excellence and was accorded equally salient place by other ancient thinkers. It is one of the most distinctive elements of the ancient tradition to filter into the medieval Islamic and Christian worlds. It sparked important intellectual engagements and went on to carve deep tracks through several of the later philosophies to inherit from this tradition. Under changing names and reworked forms, it would continue to breathe in the thought of Descartes and Hume, Kant, and Nietzsche. Its many lives have been joined by important continuities, yet they have also been fragmented by discontinuities — discontinuities reflecting larger shifts in ethical perspectives and competing answers to questions about the nature of the good life, the moral nature of human beings, and their relationship to the social and natural world they inhabit. They have also been punctuated by moments of intense controversy in which the vision of human greatness has itself been called into doubt. The aim of this volume is to provide an insight into the complex trajectory of a virtue whose glitter has at times been as dazzling as it has been divisive. By exploring the many lives it has lived, we will be in a better position to evaluate whether this is a virtue we still want to make central to our own ethical lives, and why.

Healing Grief

Healing Grief
Author: Fabio Tutrone
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2022-12-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3111014843

Both our view of Seneca’s philosophical thought and our approach to the ancient consolatory genre have radically changed since the latest commentary on the Consolatio ad Marciam was written in 1981. The aim of this work is to offer a new book-length commentary on the earliest of Seneca’s extant writings, along with a revision of the Latin text and a reassessment of Seneca’s intellectual program, strategies, and context. A crucial document to penetrate Seneca’s discourse on the self in its embryonic stages, the Ad Marciam is here taken seriously as an engaging attempt to direct the persuasive power of literary models and rhetorical devices toward the fundamentally moral project of healing Marcia’s grief and correcting her cognitive distortions. Through close reading of the Latin text, this commentary shows that Seneca invariably adapts different traditions and voices – from Greek consolations to Plato’s dialogues, from the Roman discourse of gender and exemplarity to epic poetry – to a Stoic framework, so as to give his reader a lucid understanding of the limits of the self and the ineluctability of natural laws.

Plato in the Third Sophistic

Plato in the Third Sophistic
Author: Ryan C. Fowler
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2014-10-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1614519838

Plato in the Third Sophistic examines the influence and impact of Plato and Platonism in the era of Byzantine and Christian rhetoric. The volume brings together specially commissioned articles from leading scholars of late antique philosophy and literature. Their examinations show that Plato is the single most important and influential literary figure used to frame the literature of this time. Plato in the Third Sophistic will help scholars and students from a wide range of disciplines to better understand the development of Christian literature in this era as an essential link in the history of Platonism as well as that of Christianity.

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristotle in Antiquity

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristotle in Antiquity
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2016-04-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004315403

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristotle provides a systematic yet accessible account of the reception of Aristotle’s philosophy in Antiquity. To date, there has been no comprehensive attempt to explain this complex phenomenon. This volume fills this lacuna by offering broad coverage of the subject from Hellenistic times to the sixth century AD. It is laid out chronologically and the 23 articles are divided into three sections: I. The Hellenistic Reception of Aristotle; II. The Post-Hellenistic Engagement with Aristotle; III. Aristotle in Late Antiquity. Topics include Aristotle and the Stoa, Andronicus of Rhodes and the construction of the Aristotelian corpus, the return to Aristotle in the first century BC, and the role of Alexander of Aphrodisias and Porphyry in the transmission of Aristotle's philosophy to Late Antiquity.