| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 335 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Ancient commentators on Aristotle
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Ancient commentators on Aristotle.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-313) and indexes. |
| Contents |
What is Platonism? -- The exoteric writings and the early Aristotle -- The categories of reality -- Nature and its principles -- Psychology : souls and intellects -- Aristotle's Metaphysics -- Aristotle and the forms -- Aristotle's Ethics -- Aristotle : Platonist malgré lui? |
| Summary |
"In a wide-ranging book likely to cause controversy, Lloyd P. Gerson sets out the case for the "harmony" of Platonism and Aristotelianism, the standard view in late antiquity. He aims to show that the twentieth-century view that Aristotle started out as a Platonist and ended up as an anti-Platonist is seriously flawed." "Gerson examines the Neoplatonic commentators on Aristotle based on their principle of harmony. In considering ancient studies of Aristotle's Categories, Physics, De Anima, Metaphysics, and Nicomachean Ethics, the author shows how the principle of harmony allows us to understand numerous texts that otherwise appear intractable. Gerson also explains how these "esoteric" treatises can be seen not to conflict with the early "exoteric" and admittedly Platonic dialogues of Aristotle. Aristotle and Other Platonists concludes with an assessment of some of the philosophical results of acknowledging harmony."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Aristotle.
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Αριστοτέλης, |
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Aristotle. |
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Platonists.
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Platonists. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gerson, Lloyd P. Aristotle and other Platonists. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2005 0801441641 (DLC) 2004013045 (OCoLC)55679815 |
| ISBN |
9781501716966 (electronic book) |
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1501716964 (electronic book) |
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0801441641 |
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9780801441646 |
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9780801473371 |
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0801473373 |
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