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Reading ancient texts : essays in honour of Denis O'Brien. Volume II, Aristotle and neoplatonism /
What is the history of philosophy? Is it history or is it philosophy or is it by some strange alchemy a confluence of the two? This work features contributors who present essays that tackle this question, by drawing on their knowledge of the surviving texts of ancient philosophers, from the Presocra...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
v. 162. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Notes on Contributors; I ARISTOTLE; Aristotle's Conception of Dunamis and Techne (C. Natali (Venice)); Aristotle and the Starting Point of Moral Development: The Notion of Natural Virtue (C. Viano (CNRS, Paris)); Akrasia and Moral Education in Aristotle (J. Cleary (Boston College & NUI Maynooth)); Effective Primary Causes: The Notion of Contact and the Possibility of Acting without Being Affected in Aristotle's De Generatione et Corruptione (T. Buchheim (Munich)); II PLATO AND HIS HEIRS: FROM APULEIUS TO AUGUSTINE; Interpretation from Plato to Late Antiquity (K. Corrigan (Emory))
- The Final Metamorphosis: Narrative Voice in the Prologue of Apuleius' Golden Ass (F.M. Schroeder (Queen's, Ontario))Plotinus: Omnipresence and Transcendence of the One in VI 5[23] (G. Gurtler S.J. (Boston College)); The Concept of Will in Plotinus (C. Horn (Bonn)); Divine Freedom in Plotinus and Iamblichus (Tractate VI 8 (39) 7, 11-15 and De Mysteriis III, 17-20) (J.-M. Narbonne (Laval, Québec)); Was the Vita Plotini known in Arab Philosophical Circles? (P. Thillet (Paris I, Paris))
- Friendship and Transgression: Luminosus Limes Amicitiae (Augustine, Confessions 2.2.2) and the Themes of Confessions 2 (G. O'Daly (University College, London))Augustine and the Philosophical Foundations of Sincerity (S. Stern-Gillet (Bolton)); III EPILOGUE: INTERPRETATION IN RETROSPECT; Innovation and Continuity in the History of Philosophy (D. Evans (Queen's, Belfast)); A Detailed Bibliography of Denis O'Brien's Works; Subject Index; Index of Names