Reading Ancient Texts, 2 : Aristotle and Neoplatonism - Essays in Honour of Denis O'Brien.

Reading Ancient Texts, 2 : Aristotle and Neoplatonism - Essays in Honour of Denis O'Brien.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stern-Gillet, Suzanne
Other Authors: Corrigan, Kevin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : BRILL, 2008.
Series:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 162.
Subjects:
Aristotle.
Aristotle
O'Brien, Denis (Philosoph).
Philosophy, Ancient.
Neoplatonism.
Neo-Platonism.
Neoplatonism
Philosophy, Ancient
Philosophie
Griechenland > Altertum
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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