Problems

Problems
Author: Aristoteles
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 618
Release: 2011
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0674996550

Substances and Universals in Aristotle's Metaphysics

Substances and Universals in Aristotle's Metaphysics
Author: Theodore Scaltsas
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2010
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780801476358

In this book, Theodore Scaltsas brings the insights of contemporary philosophy to bear on a classic problem in metaphysics that stems from Aristotle's theory of substance. Scaltsas provides an analysis of the enigmatic notions of potentiality and actuality, which he uses to explain Aristotle's substantial holism by showing how the concrete and the abstract parts of a substance form a dynamic, diachronic whole.

Aristotle's Lost Homeric Problems

Aristotle's Lost Homeric Problems
Author: Robert Mayhew
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2019-01-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0192571532

This volume takes as its focus an oft-neglected work of ancient philosophy: Aristotle's lost Homeric Problems. The evidence for this lost work consists mostly of 'fragments' surviving in the Homeric scholia - comments in the margins of the medieval manuscripts of the Homeric epics, mostly coming from lost commentaries on these epics - though the series of studies presented here puts forward a persuasive case that other sources have been overlooked. These studies focus on various aspects of the Homeric Problems and are grouped into three parts. The first deals with preliminary issues: the relationship of this lost work to the Homeric scholarship that came before it, and to Aristotle's comments on Homeric scholarship in his extant Poetics; the evidence concerning the possible titles of this work; and a neglected early edition of the fragments. Following on from this, the second part attempts to expand our knowledge of the Homeric Problems through an examination in context of quotations from (or allusions to) Homer in Aristotle's extant works, and specifically in the History of Animals, the Rhetoric, and Poetics 21, while Part Three consists of four studies on select (and in most cases disregarded) fragments. Collectively the chapters support the conclusion that Aristotle in the Homeric Problems aimed to defend Homer against his critics, but not slavishly and without employing allegorical interpretation; within the context of a renewed interest in Aristotle's lost works, the volume as a whole brings much needed illumination to a virtually unknown ancient work involving not one but two giants of the classical world.

The Undivided Self

The Undivided Self
Author: David Charles
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0192640887

Aristotle 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.

Metaphysics

Metaphysics
Author: Aristotle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199682984

Laura Castelli presents a new translation of the tenth book (Iota) of Aristotle's Metaphysics, together with a comprehensive commentary. Castelli's commentary helps readers to understand Aristotle's most systematic account of what it is for something to be one, what it is for something to be a unit of measurement, and what contraries are.

Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology

Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology
Author: Allan Gotthelf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 480
Release: 1987-10-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521310918

An overview of biology and philosophy is followed by three sections on individual issues definition and demonstration, teleology and necessity in nature, and metaphysical themes.

Aristotle's Philosophical Development

Aristotle's Philosophical Development
Author: William Robert Wians
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1996
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780847680443

For most of this century, Aristotelian scholarship was dominated by a single question: how might Aristotle's intellectual development be used to shed light on his philosophical doctrines? Opinions differed widely as to how this growth was to be charted; eventually, a reaction to the whole enterprise set in, and the past thirty years have seen the question lose its prominence. Recently, certain scholars have reopened the question. In this collection of new essays, sixteen distinguished scholars reconsider the promise and limitations of developmentalism, with contributions devoted to Aristotle's logic and epistemology, physics, biology and psychology, ethics and politics, and metaphysics. Also included are classic developmental studies by Anton-Hermann Chroust and Thomas Case. Contributors: Enrico Berti, Klaus Brinkmann, Thomas Case, Anton-Hermann Chroust, John Cleary, Alan Code, Russell Dancy, Cynthia Freeland, Daniel Graham, Jaako Hintikka, James Lennox, Deborah Modrak, Pierre Pellegrin, John M. Rist, William Wians, and Charlotte Witt

Crescas' Critique of Aristotle

Crescas' Critique of Aristotle
Author: Harry Austryn Wolfson
Publisher: Harvard Semitic Series, 6
Total Pages: 904
Release: 1957
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

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Physics

Physics
Author: Aristotle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1999
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780198240921

The eighth book of Aristotle's Physics is the culmination of his theory of nature. He discusses not just physics, but the origins of the universe and the metaphysical foundations of cosmology and physical science. He moves from the discussion of motion in the cosmos to the identification of a single source and regulating principle of all motion, and so argues for the existence of a first 'unmoved mover'. Daniel Graham offers a clear, accurate new translation of this key text in the history of Western thought, and accompanies the translation with a careful philosophical commentary to guide the reader towards an understanding of the wealth of important and influential arguments and ideas that Aristotle puts forward.

Aristotle on Political Community

Aristotle on Political Community
Author: David J. Riesbeck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2016-08-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1107107024

A unified interpretation of Aristotle's views about the distinctive nature and value of political community, rule and participation.