This volume will be valuable reading for students of Aristotle and later ancient thought, and represents an important stage in the development of Aristotelian logic, ethics, and rhetoric."--
Even Alexander's blunders have their interest: logic is not an easy subject; it is salutary to see how readily bad mistakes are made; and one way of avoiding error yourself is to observe the errors of others.78 Moreover, the errors in ...
Topics in Stoic Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, 23–53. (repr. in J. Barnes 2012: 382–412) Barnes, J. (2012), Logical Matters. Essays in Ancient Philosophy II, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Barnes, J.; Bobzien, S.; ...
This volume will be valuable reading for students of Aristotle and of the developments of Peripatetic logic and ethics in late antiquity.
This volume will be valuable reading for students of Aristotle and later ancient thought, and represents an important stage in the development of Aristotelian logic, ethics, and rhetoric"--
The work will be of interest not only for its perspective on ancient logic, rhetoric, and debate, but also for its continuing influence on argument in the Middle Ages and later.
Aristotle's Topics is about dialectic, which can be understood as a debate between two people or the inner debate of one thinker with himself.
The work will be of interest not only for its perspective on ancient logic, rhetoric, and debate, but also for its continuing influence on argument in the Middle Ages and later.
The commentary on book 1 has the further interest that over half of it is devoted to Aristotle's discussion of Plato.
The "Supplement" transmitted as the second book of "On the Soul" by Alexander of Aphrodisias is a collection of short texts on a wide range of topics from psychology;questions in ethics;and issues relating to responsibility, chance and fate ...
The Quaestiones have been studied more and more in recent years; but the present volume and its successor offer the first translation of the whole collection into English or any other modern language.
This volume completes the translation in this series of Quaestiones attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias, the leading ancient commentator on Aristotle.
In his commentary on those chapters, "Alexander of Aphrodisias" explains some of Aristotle's more opaque assertions and discusses post-Aristotelian ideas in semantics and the philosophy of language.
The Supplement transmitted as the second book of On the Soul by Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. 200 AD) is a collection of short texts on a wide range of topics from psychology, including the general hylomorphic account of soul and its ...
Aristotle's Metaphysics 2 consists of two chapters on methodology flanking an important discussion of the impossibility of infinite causal chains.
As well as an English translation of the text, this volume includes a detailed introduction demonstrating the authenticity of the work and discussing its contribution to our understanding of ancient science.
This volume will be valuable reading for students of Aristotle and of the developments of Peripatetic logic and ethics in late antiquity.