The Sea Battle and the Master Argument

The Sea Battle and the Master Argument
Author: Richard Gaskin
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2011-05-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 311086634X

The series, founded in 1970, publishes works which either combine studies in the history of philosophy with a systematic approach or bring together systematic studies with reconstructions from the history of philosophy. Monographs are published in English as well as in German. The founding editors are Erhard Scheibe (editor until 1991), Günther Patzig (until 1999) and Wolfgang Wieland (until 2003). From 1990 to 2007, the series had been co-edited by Jürgen Mittelstraß.

The Philosophy of the Commentators, 200-600 AD: Physics

The Philosophy of the Commentators, 200-600 AD: Physics
Author: Richard Sorabji
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2005
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780801489884

Physics in Neoplatonist thought, the subject which occupies the second volume of this sourcebook, was innovative: the world of space and time was causally ordered by a nonspatial, nontemporal world, and this view required original thinking

The Ancient Commentators on Plato and Aristotle

The Ancient Commentators on Plato and Aristotle
Author: Miira Tuominen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2016-09-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317492587

In late antiquity the works of Plato and Aristotle were subject to intense study, which eventually led to the development of a new literary form, the philosophical commentary. Until recently these commentaries were understood chiefly as sources of information for the masters - Plato and Aristotle - they commented upon. However, in recent years, it has become increasingly acknowledged that the commentators themselves - Aspasius, Alexander, Themistius, Porphyry, Proclus, Philoponus, Simplicius and others - even though they worked in the Platonist - Aristotelian framework, contributed to this tradition in original, innovative and significant ways such that their commentaries are philosophically important sources in their own right. This book provides the first systematic introduction to the 'philosophy' of the commentators: their way of doing philosophy and the kind of philosophical problems they found interesting.Although there was no philosophy of the commentators in the sense of a definite set of doctrines, Tuominen shows how the commentary format was nevertheless a vehicle for original philosophical theorizing and argues convincingly that the commentators should take their place alongside other philosophers of antiquity in the history of western philosophy.

The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle

The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle
Author: Christopher Shields
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 731
Release: 2012-08-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195187482

This book reflects the lively international character of Aristotelian studies, drawing contributors from Europe, North America, and Asia. It also reflects the broad range of activity Aristotelian studies comprise today, informed by cutting-edge philological research and focusing as its core activity on textual exegesis and philosophical criticism.

The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity

The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity
Author: Lloyd P. Gerson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1584
Release: 2015-12-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1316175936

The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity comprises over forty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of the period 200–800 CE. Designed as a successor to The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy (edited by A. H. Armstrong), it takes into account some forty years of scholarship since the publication of that volume. The contributors examine philosophy as it entered literature, science and religion, and offer new and extensive assessments of philosophers who until recently have been mostly ignored. The volume also includes a complete digest of all philosophical works known to have been written during this period. It will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in this rich and still emerging field.

Possibility and Necessity in the Time of Peter Abelard

Possibility and Necessity in the Time of Peter Abelard
Author: Irene Binini
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2021-10-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004470468

This book offers a major reassessment of Abelard’s modal logic and theory of modalities, and provides a comprehensive study of the 12th-century context in which his views originated and developed, by analysing many logical sources that are still unedited and mostly unexplored.

Duns Scotus on Time and Existence

Duns Scotus on Time and Existence
Author: John Duns Scotus
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2014
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0813226031

An English translation of John Duns Scotus's The Questions on Aristotle's "De Interpretatione" including an extensive commentary on some of Scotus's more difficult ideas.

Boethius: On Aristotle on Interpretation 4-6

Boethius: On Aristotle on Interpretation 4-6
Author: Boethius,
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2014-04-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1472501659

Boethius (c. 480-c. 525) was a Christian philosopher and author of many translations and works of philosophy, most famously the Consolations of Philosophy which were probably written when he was under house arrest, having been accused of treason by King Theoderic the Great. He was subsequently executed. On Interpretation is the second part of the Organon, as Aristotle's collected works on logic are known; it deals comprehensively and systematically with the relationship between logic and language. In his first six chapters, Aristotle defines name, verb, sentence, statement, affirmation and negation. Boethius preserves lost interpretations by two of the greatest earlier interpreters, Alexander and Porphyry, and the defence of the work's authenticity against criticism. He records the idea of Porphyry that Aristotelians believe in three types of name and verb, written, spoken and mental, in other words a language of the mind. Boethius' commentary formed part of his project to bring knowledge of Plato and Aristotle to the Latin-speaking world. It had great influence, remaining the standard introduction to On Interpretation throughout the Latin Middle Ages.