Metaphysics, soul, and ethics in ancient thought : themes from the work of Richard Sorabji /
Leading figures in ancient philosophy present eighteen original papers on three key themes in the work of Richard Sorabji. The papers dealing with Metaphysics range from Democritus to Numenius on basic questions about the structure and nature of reality: necessitation, properties, and time. The sect...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2005.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Leading figures in ancient philosophy present eighteen original papers on three key themes in the work of Richard Sorabji. The papers dealing with Metaphysics range from Democritus to Numenius on basic questions about the structure and nature of reality: necessitation, properties, and time. The section on Soul includes one paper on the individuation of souls in Plato and five papers on Aristotle's and Aristotelian theories of cognition, with a special emphasis on perception. Thesection devoted to Ethics concentrates upon Stoicism and the complex views the Stoics held on such topics as motivati. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 592 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. "Richard Sorabji bibliography": pages 551-559 |
ISBN: | 1423788664 9781423788669 9780191555619 0191555614 |