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Title Peripatetic philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200 : an introduction and collection of sources in translation / [edited by] Robert W. Sharples ; with indexes prepared by Myrto Hatzimichali
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 309 pages)
Series Cambridge source books in post-Hellenistic philosophy
Cambridge source books in post-Hellenistic philosophy.
Contents People -- The rediscovery of Aristotle's works? -- A Hellenistic account of Aristotle's philosophy -- Philosophy and rhetoric -- The starting-point and parts of philosophy -- Commentaries : logic and ontology -- The categories : (i) placement and title -- The categories : (ii) words or things or words as signifying things? -- The categories : (iii) per se and relative : ten categories or two? -- The categories : (iv) time and place -- On interpretation -- Ontology : form and matter -- Logic -- Theory of knowledge. Ethics -- An account of Peripatetic ethics : Stobaeus, 'doxography C' -- Emotions -- The primary natural things : oikeiōsis -- Bodily and external goods and happiness. Physics -- The nature of time and place -- The eternity of the world -- The heavens -- God and providence -- Fate, choice and what depends on us -- Soul -- Generation -- Sensation -- Intellect
Summary "This book provides a collection of sources, many of them fragmentary and previously scattered and hard to access, for the development of Peripatetic philosophy in the later Hellenistic period and the early Roman Empire. It also supplies the background against which the first commentator on Aristotle from whom extensive material survives, Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. AD 200), developed his interpretations which continue to be influential even today. Many of the passages are here translated into English for the first time, including the whole of the summary of Peripatetic ethics attributed to 'Arius Didymus'"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-288) and indexes
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Subject Philosophy, Ancient.
Peripatetics.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
Peripatetics
Philosophy, Ancient
aristotélisme -- 2e s. av. J.-C. -- 2e s. -- anthologie.
Form Electronic book
Author Sharples, R. W.
ISBN 9780511902284
051190228X
9780511799136
0511799136
9780511781506
0511781504