Mind As The Foundation Of Cosmic Order In Platos Late Dialogues
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Emotion and Peace of Mind
| Author | : Richard Sorabji |
| Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 2000-08-24 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0191544035 |
Richard Sorabji presents a ground-breaking study of ancient Greek views of the emotions and their influence on subsequent theories and attitudes, pagan and Christian. The key questions are ones that concern everyone: what is emotion, and how does one cope with one's own emotions and establish peace of mind? The central focus of the book is the Stoics, but Sorabji draws on a vast range of texts to give a rich historical survey of how Western thinking about this central aspect of human nature developed. The result is a magisterial work of scholarship which will be fascinating for anyone with an interest in the emotions from a historical or contemporary perspective.
Perception, Conscience and Will in Ancient Philosophy
| Author | : Richard Sorabji |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2024-10-28 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1040234291 |
This book is about the human mind in ancient philosophy, with a focus on sense perception, a subject that Richard Sorabji has previously treated more in articles than in books. But it finishes with chapters offering a distinctive view on moral conscience and will. Sense perception raises the further questions of the mind-body relation, of self-awareness, of infinite divisibility and the continuum, of the capacities of animals and children and of the relation between perception and reason. On all topics the introduction interconnects the papers and presents fresh material to fill out the picture. For the topic that has proved most popular, the physiological process in sense perception, a bibliography is provided as well as the latest update. The introduction interconnects the papers and fills out the picture by reference to other writings and to further thoughts. On the final topic, the will, it takes account of a different view that appeared only when the book was in preparation. The picture of the main topics shows that each continued to develop into a richer and richer account throughout the 1200 year course of Ancient Greek Philosophy up to 600 CE.
Philoponus: Against Proclus on the Eternity of the World 12-18
| Author | : Philoponus, |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 199 |
| Release | : 2014-04-22 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1472501411 |
In chapters 12-18 of Against Proclus, Philoponus continues to do battle against Proclus' arguments for the beginninglessness and everlastingness of the ordered universe. In this final section there are three notable issues under discussion. The first concerns the composition of the heavens and its manner of movement. Philoponus argues against the Aristotelian thesis that there is a fifth heavenly body that has a natural circular motion. He concludes that even though the celestial region is composed of fire and the other three elements, it can move in a circle by the agency of its soul, and that this circular motion is not compromised in any way by the innate natural motion of the fire.Chapter 16 contains an extended discussion of the will of God and His relation to particulars. Here Philoponus addresses issues that become central to medieval philosophical and theological discussions, including the unity, timelessness and indivisibility of God's will. Finally, throughout these seven chapters Philoponus is engaged in a detailed exegesis of Plato's Timaeus which aims to settle a number of familiar interpretive problems, notably how we should understand the pre-cosmic state of disorderly motion, and the statement that the visible cosmos is an image of the paradigm. Philoponus' exegetical concerns culminate in chapter 18 with an extensive discussion of Plato's attitude to poetry and myth.
Plato's Timaeus as Cultural Icon
| Author | : Gretchen J. Reydams-Schils |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
New forms of transnational mobility and diasporic belonging have become emblematic of a supposed global condition of uprootedness. Yet much recent theorizing of our so-called postmodern life emphasizes movement and fluidity without interrogating who and what is on the move. This book examines the interdependence of mobility and belonging by considering how homes are formed in relationship to movement. It suggests that movement does not only happen when one leaves home, and that homes are not always fixed in a single location. Home and belonging may involve attachment and movement, fixation and loss, and the transgression and enforcement of boundaries.
Plato's Cosmology and its Ethical Dimensions
| Author | : Gabriela Roxana Carone |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2005-10-31 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1107320739 |
Although a great deal has been written on Plato's ethics, his cosmology has not received so much attention in recent times and its importance for his ethical thought has remained underexplored. By offering accounts of Timaeus, Philebus, Politicus and Laws X, the book reveals a strongly symbiotic relation between the cosmic and human sphere. It is argued that in his late period Plato presents a picture of an organic universe, endowed with structure and intrinsic value, which both urges our respect and calls for our responsible intervention. Humans are thus seen as citizens of a university that can provide a context for their flourishing even in the absence of good political institutions. The book sheds light on many intricate metaphysical issues in late Plato and brings out the close connections between his cosmology and the development of his ethics.
Archiv Für Geschichte Der Philosophie
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 752 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : |
Vols. 1-23 (1888-1910) include "Jahresberichte über sämtliche Erscheinungen auf dem Gebiete der Geschichte der Philosophie"; v.24-41 include section "Die neuesten Erscheinungen auf dem Gebiete der Geschichte der Philosophie" (varies slightly)
Passion of the Western Mind
| Author | : Richard Tarnas |
| Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
| Total Pages | : 560 |
| Release | : 2011-10-19 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0307804526 |
"[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Here are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making and already hailed as a classic, THE PASSION OF THE WESERN MIND is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume.
Plato and the Post-Socratic Dialogue
| Author | : Charles H. Kahn |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 267 |
| Release | : 2013-11-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107031451 |
These six diverse and difficult dialogues are seen together as aspects of Plato's project of reformulating his theory of Forms.
The Heirs of Plato
| Author | : John Dillon |
| Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2003-01-30 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0191519251 |
The Heirs of Plato is the first book exclusively devoted to an in-depth study of the various directions in philosophy taken by Plato's followers in the first seventy years or so following his death in 347 BC. - the period generally known as 'The Old Academy'. Speusippus, Xenocrates, and Polemon, the three successive heads of the Academy in this period, though personally devoted to the memory of Plato, were independent philosophers in their own right, and felt free to develop his heritage in individual directions. This is also true of other personalities attached to the school, such as Philippus of Opus, Heraclides of Pontus, and Crantor of Soli. After an introductory chapter on the school itself, and a summary of Plato's philosophical heritage, John Dillon devotes a chapter to each of the school heads, and another to the other chief characters, exploring both what holds them together and what sets them apart. There is a final short chapter devoted to the turn away from dogmatism to scepticism under Arcesilaus in the 270s, and some reflections on the intellectual debt of Stoicism to the thought of Polemon, in particular. Dillon's clear and accessible book fills a significant gap in our understanding of Plato's immediate philosophical influence, and will be of great value to scholars and historians of ancient philosophy.
