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Title Metaphysics, soul, and ethics in ancient thought : themes from the work of Richard Sorabji / edited by Ricardo Salles
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 592 pages)
Contents Intrinsic and relational properties of atoms in the Democritean ontology / Alexander P.D. Mourelatos -- Necessitation and explanation in Philospnus' Aristotelian physics / Sylvia Berryman -- Contemporary look at Aristotle's changing now / Sarah Berryman -- Contemporary look at Aristotle's changing now / Sahah Broadie -- On the individuation of times and events in orthodox stoicism / Ricardo Salles -- Stoic metaphysics at Rome / David Sedley -- Phatonism in the Bible / M.F. Burnyeat -- Platonic souls as persons / A.A. Long -- Aristotle versus Descartes on the concept of the mental / Charles H. Kahn -- Perceptional naturalized in Aristotle's De anima / Robert Bolton -- Discriminating capacity of the soul in Aristotle's theory of learning / Frans A.J. de Haas -- Alexander of Aphrodisias on the nature and location of vision / Robert W. Sharples -- Plato's stoic view of motivation / Gabriela Roxana Carone -- Presence of Socrates and Aristotle in the stoic account of Akrasia / Marcelo D. Boeri -- Extend or identify / Mary Margaret McCabe -- Competing readings of stoic emotions / Christopher Gill -- Were Zeno and Chrysippus at odds in analyzing emotion? / A.W. Price -- Seneca on freedom and autonomy / Brad Inwood -- Mood philosophy and the conditions of certainty / M.W.F. Stone
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
"Richard Sorabji bibliography": pages 551-559
Notes Print version record
Subject Sorabji, Richard
SUBJECT Sorabji, Richard fast
Subject Philosophy, Ancient.
Ethics.
Soul.
Metaphysics.
Ethics
Metaphysics
ethics (philosophy)
metaphysics.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
Ethics
Metaphysics
Philosophy, Ancient
Soul
Metafysica.
Filosofie van de geest.
Ethiek.
Klassieke oudheid.
Genre/Form Festschriften
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Salles, Ricardo
ISBN 1423788664
9781423788669
9780191555619
0191555614