Concept of Matter in Greek and Mediaeval Philosophy
Univ of Notre Dame Pr, June 1965. Paper Back. More about Concept of Matter in Greek and Mediaeval Philosophy
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Aristotle On His Predecessors: Being The First Book Of His Metaphysics
The Open Court Publishing Company, 1962. Hardcover. More about Aristotle On His Predecessors: Being The First Book Of His Metaphysics
De Generatione et Corruptione (Clarendon Aristotle Series)
Clarendon Press, September 1982. Paper Back. More about De Generatione et Corruptione (Clarendon Aristotle Series
Language (Companions to Ancient Thought)
Cambridge University Press, August 1994. Paper Back. This volume is devoted to ancient theories of language. The chapters range over more than eight hundred years of philosophical enquiry, and provide critical analyses of all the principal accounts of how it is that language can have meaning and how we can... More about Language (Companions to Ancient Thought
Articles on Aristotle: Volume 4: Psychology and Aesthetics
Bristol Classical Press, January 1998. Paper Back. A valuable collection of essays on Aristotle's metaphysics, by J.L. Akrill, Jacob Bernays, Jonathan Barnes, Norman Gulley, W.W. Fortenbaugh, Charles H. Kahn, Malcolm Schofield and Richard Sorabji. The collection is supplemented by an annotated bibliography, general index and index of passages cited from..... More about Articles on Aristotle: Volume 4: Psychology and Aesthetics
Philoponus: On Aristotle On Coming-to-Be and Perishing 1.1-5 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)
Bristol Classical Press, June 1999. Hardcover. The first five chapters of Aristotle's De Generatione et Corruptione distinguish creation and destruction from mere qualitative change and from growth. They include a fascinating debate about the atomists' analysis of creation and destruction as due to the rearrangement of indivisible atoms. Aristotle's rival... More about Philoponus: On Aristotle On Coming-to-Be and Perishing 1.1-5 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Prior Analytics 1.1-7 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) (Bk.1)
Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd., December 1991. Hardcover. Previous owner's name inked on front pastedown. More about Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Prior Analytics 1.1-7 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)...
The Mirage of Continuity: Reconfiguring Academic Information Resources for the 21st Century
Commission on Preservation &, July 1998. Hardcover. More about The Mirage of Continuity: Reconfiguring Academic Information Resources for the 21st Century
Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles/Eperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche
University Of Chicago Press, February 1981. Soft Cover. Nietzsche has recently enjoyed much scrutiny from the "nouveaux critiques." Jacques Derrida, the leader of that movement, here combines in his strikingly original and incisive fashion questions of sexuality, politics, writing, judgement, procreation, death, and even the weather into a far-reaching analysis... More about Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles/Eperons: Les Styles de Nietzsche
Difference and Repetition (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
Columbia University Press, April 1994. Hardcover. This brilliant exposition of the critique of identity is a classic in contemporary philosophy and one of Deleuze's most important works. Of fundamental importance to literary critics and philosophers, Difference and Repetition develops two central concepts--pure difference and complex repetition--and shows how the two... More about Difference and Repetition (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Platos Sophist (Studies in Continental Thought)
Indiana University Press, April 1997. Hardcover. Reconstructs Martin Heidegger's lecture course at the University of Marburg, devoted to an interpretation of Plato's Sophist and Aristotle. The lectures approach Plato through a detailed reading of the Nichomachean Ethics, providing one of Heidegger's major interpretations of Aristotle. More about Platos Sophist (Studies in Continental Thought
The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
Cambridge University Press, March 1986. Paper Back. This book is a study of ancient Greek views about 'moral luck'. It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our appraisal... More about The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
Substance and Separation in Aristotle
Cambridge University Press, April 1995. Hardcover. There have been many recent books on Aristotle's theory of substance. This one is distinct from previous efforts in several ways. First, it offers a completely new and coherent interpretation of Aristotle's claim that substances are separate: substances turn out to be specimens of... More about Substance and Separation in Aristotle
Aristotle on Substance: The Paradox of Unity
Princeton University Press, February 1990. Hardcover. This book explores a fundamental tension in Aristotle's metaphysics: how can an entity such as a living organisma composite generated through the imposition of form on preexisting matterhave the conceptual unity that Aristotle demands of primary substances? Mary Louise Gill bases her treatment of... More about Aristotle on Substance: The Paradox of Unity
Substance, Form, and Psyche: An Aristotelean Metaphysics
Cambridge University Press, November 1988. Hardcover. This book is a re-thinking of Aristotle's metaphysical theory of material substances. The view of the author is that the 'substances' are the living things, the organisms: chiefly, the animals. There are three main parts to the book: Part I, a treatment of the... More about Substance, Form, and Psyche: An Aristotelean Metaphysics
Aristotle in Late Antiquity (STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY)
Catholic Univ of Amer Pr, April 1994. Hardcover. Previous owner's named inked on front pastedown. More about Aristotle in Late Antiquity (STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
A Latin Grammar Latin Grammar Latin Grammar (Alabama Linguistic & Philological Ser: V)
University Alabama Press, March 1966. Paper Back. More about A Latin Grammar Latin Grammar Latin Grammar (Alabama Linguistic & Philological Ser: V
Metaphysics: (Bks. 7–10) (Hackett Classics) (Bks. 6-10)
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., January 1985. Paper Back. This translation of the central books of the Metaphysics aims at no literary value, only literalness. Underlining throughout. More about Metaphysics: (Bks. 7–10) (Hackett Classics) (Bks. 6-10
Chorology: On Beginning in Plato's Timaeus (The Collected Writings of John Sallis)
Indiana University Press, November 1999. Paper Back. This excellent work... deserves the serious consideration of all who are interested in contemporary philosophy as well as those who concern themselves with ancient philosophy, especially Plato." --Review of Metaphysics In Chorology, John Sallis takes up one of the most enigmatic discourses in... More about Chorology: On Beginning in Plato's Timaeus (The Collected Writings of John Sallis
Aristotle Transformed: The Ancient Commentators and Their Influence (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)
Cornell Univ Pr, March 1990. Hardcover. Previous owner's name inked on front pastedown. Back of the dust jacket and some pages slightly soiled/stained. More about Aristotle Transformed: The Ancient Commentators and Their Influence (Ancient Commentators on...
Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science
Cornell Univ Pr, April 1987. Hardcover. Previous owner's name inked on front pastedown. Some pages lightly soiled. More about Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science
Recollection and Experience: Plato's Theory of Learning and its Successors
Cambridge University Press, September 1995. Hardcover. This book is concerned chiefly with theories about learning in the history of philosophy, especially ancient philosophy. One of the main questions is: does our knowledge arise just out of experience or do we have some innate knowledge as well? The book is original... More about Recollection and Experience: Plato's Theory of Learning and its Successors
Theophrastean Studies: On Natural Science, Physics and Metaphysics, Ethics, Religion and Rhetoric (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities)
Transaction Publishers, January 1988. Hardcover. This third volume in the Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities is closely related to Volume 2, Theophrastus of Eresus, in that it too reflects a new and growing international interest in Aristotle's successor as Head of the Peripatos. Seventeen scholars from six countries are... More about Theophrastean Studies: On Natural Science, Physics and Metaphysics, Ethics, Religion and Rhetoric...
Plato's Earlier Dialectic
Oxford University Press, February 1985. Paper Back. Following strict rules of interpretation, this book focuses on the ideas in Plato's early and middle dialogues that lie within the fields now called logic and methodology, specifically elenchus and dialectic and the method of hypothesis. Sunning to the spine and cover. Underlining throughout. More about Plato's Earlier Dialectic
Plotinus or the Simplicity of Vision
University Of Chicago Press, February 1994. Hardcover. Since its original publication in France in 1963, Pierre Hadot's lively philosophical portrait of Plotinus remains the preeminent introduction to the man and his thought. Michael Chase's lucid translation complete with a useful chronology and analytical bibliography at last makes this book available... More about Plotinus or the Simplicity of Vision
