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Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoreanism in the first century BC : new directions for philosophy /
"This book presents an up-to-date overview of the main new directions taken by ancient philosophy in the first century BC, a period in which the dominance exercised in the Hellenistic age by Stoicism, Epicureanism and Academic Scepticism gave way to a more diverse and experimental philosophical...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The texts of Plato and Aristotle in the first century BC / Myrto Hatzimichali
- 2. Platonist approaches to Aristotle: from Antiochus of Ascalon to Eudorus of Alexandria (and beyond) / Riccardo Chiaradonna
- 3. Boethius' Aristotelian ontology / Marwan Rashed
- 4. Aristotelianism in the first century BC: Xenarchus of Seleucia / Andrea Falcon
- 5. Posidonius as historian of philosophy: an interpretation of Plutarch, De Animae Procreatione in Timaeo 22, 1023b-c / Anna Eunyoung Ju
- 6. Asclepiades of Bithynia and Heraclides Ponticus: medical Platonism? / Roberto Polito
- 7. The eclectic Pythagoreanism of Alexander Polyhistor / A.A. Long
- 8. Pythagoreanizing Aristotle: Eudorus and the systematization of Platonism / Mauro Bonazzi
- 9. Cicero and the Timaeus / David Sedley
- 10. Plato's Laws and Cicero's De Legibus / Julia Annas
- 11. Of Cicero's Plato: fictions, forms, foundations / Ingo Gildenhard.
- Notes on contributors; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 The texts of Plato and Aristotle in the first century bc; Text-based philosophy; Plato's text; The fate of Aristotle's books; Andronicus and the Aristotelian corpus; The impact of Andronicus' canon; Conclusion; Chapter 2 Platonist approaches to Aristotle: from Antiochus of Ascalon to Eudorus of Alexandria (and beyond); Antiochus; After Antiochus: Aristo and Cratippus; Eudorus; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Boethus' Aristotelian ontology; Boethus' criterion of substantiality; 1. Boethus' theory of substance and predication.
- 2. Boethus on inherence3. A confirmation: 'substance', 'relative' [sic] and 'having' according to Boethus; Alexander of Aphrodisias against Boethus on substance; 1. The parts of the substance are substances; 2. A new theory of inherence; Boethus again on the non-substantiality of the form; 1. Boethus on the category of the form; 2. Boethus on what it is to be a subject; Conclusion: Boethus' having vs. Stoic sayable; Chapter 4 Aristotelianism in the first century bc: Xenarchus of Seleucia; Xenarchus' criticism of the doctrine of the fifth substance.
- Beyond Xenarchus' criticism of the doctrine of the fifth substanceXenarchus and Aristotle's ethics; Xenarchus and the return to Aristotle in the first century; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Posidonius as historian of philosophy: an interpretation of Plutarch, de Animae Procreatione in Timaeo 22, 1023b-c; Introduction; 'The being of the limits'; The Platonic 'soul' as reason; Mathematicising Platonic 'reason'; Chapter 6 Asclepiades of Bithynia and Heraclides Ponticus: medical Platonism?; Chapter 7 The eclectic Pythagoreanism of Alexander Polyhistor; Introduction; Text and context.
- Philosophical content and characterPrinciples; From numbers to the formed universe; Equality of opposite powers: light dark, hot cold, dry moist (D.L. 8.26); Air and aether, heat, divinity and the source of life (D.L. 8.26-8); Soul, reproduction, embryology (D.L. 8.28-9); The human soul (D.L. 8.29); Eschatology and rituals; Conclusions; Chapter 8 Pythagoreanising Aristotle: Eudorus and the systematisation of Platonism; Eudorus the 'academic'; Eudorus and the Pythagorean 'Timaeus' on the world soul and the generation of the universe; Platonising Pythagoras, Pythagoreanising Aristotle.
- Eudorus and Aristotle's categoriesConcluding remarks; Chapter 9 Cicero and the Timaeus; Chapter 10 Plato's Laws and Cicero's de Legibus; Cicero's Plato; Plato's preambles: law, virtue and happiness; Cicero on law and virtue; Laws for the best state; Conclusion; Chapter 11 Of Cicero's Plato: fictions, Forms, foundations; Thinking perfection: ideal types and forms in Plato; Historical perfection in the 50s BC; Ascent to the Forms: Cicero's Epanabathmos; Forms and their function: philosophy and politics; Conclusion: why the shift?; Bibliography; Index of passages; General index.