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"This book presents an up-to-date overview of the main new directions taken by ancient philosophy in the first century BC, a period in which the dominance exercised in the Hellenistic age by Stoicism, Epicureanism and Academic Scepticism gave way to a more diverse and experimental philosophical scene. Its development has been much less well understood, but here a strong international team of leading scholars of the subject reconstruct key features of the changed environment. They examine afresh the evidence for some of the central Greek thinkers of the period, as well as illuminating Cicero's engagement with Plato both as translator and in his own philosophising. The intensity of renewed study of Aristotle's Categories and Plato's Timaeus is an especially striking outcome of their discussions. The volume will be indispensable for scholars and students interested in the history of Platonism and Aristotelianism"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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1. Texts of Plato and Aristotle in the first century BC / Myrto Hatzimichali -- 2. Platonist approaches to Aristotle: from Antiochus of Ascalon to Eudorus of Alexandria (and beyond) / Riccardo Chiaradonna -- 3. Boethius' Aristotelian ontology / Marwan Rashed -- 4. Aristotelianism in the first century BC: Xenarchus of Seleucia / Andrea Falcon -- 5. Posidonius as historian of philosophy: an interpretation of Plutarch, De Animae Procreatione in Timaeo 22, 1023b-c / Anna Eunyoung Ju -- 6. Asclepiades of Bithynia and Heraclides Ponticus: medical Platonism? / Roberto Polito -- 7. Eclectic Pythagoreanism of Alexander Polyhistor / A.A. Long -- 8. Pythagoreanizing Aristotle: Eudorus and the systematization of Platonism / Mauro Bonazzi -- 9. Cicero and the Timaeus / David Sedley -- 10. Plato's Laws and Cicero's De Legibus / Julia Annas -- 11. Of Cicero's Plato: fictions, forms, foundations / Ingo Gildenhard. |
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Notes on contributors; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 The texts of Plato and Aristotle in the first century bc; Text-based philosophy; Plato's text; The fate of Aristotle's books; Andronicus and the Aristotelian corpus; The impact of Andronicus' canon; Conclusion; Chapter 2 Platonist approaches to Aristotle: from Antiochus of Ascalon to Eudorus of Alexandria (and beyond); Antiochus; After Antiochus: Aristo and Cratippus; Eudorus; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Boethus' Aristotelian ontology; Boethus' criterion of substantiality; 1. Boethus' theory of substance and predication. |
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2. Boethus on inherence3. A confirmation: 'substance', 'relative' [sic] and 'having' according to Boethus; Alexander of Aphrodisias against Boethus on substance; 1. The parts of the substance are substances; 2. A new theory of inherence; Boethus again on the non-substantiality of the form; 1. Boethus on the category of the form; 2. Boethus on what it is to be a subject; Conclusion: Boethus' having vs. Stoic sayable; Chapter 4 Aristotelianism in the first century bc: Xenarchus of Seleucia; Xenarchus' criticism of the doctrine of the fifth substance. |
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Beyond Xenarchus' criticism of the doctrine of the fifth substanceXenarchus and Aristotle's ethics; Xenarchus and the return to Aristotle in the first century; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Posidonius as historian of philosophy: an interpretation of Plutarch, de Animae Procreatione in Timaeo 22, 1023b-c; Introduction; 'The being of the limits'; The Platonic 'soul' as reason; Mathematicising Platonic 'reason'; Chapter 6 Asclepiades of Bithynia and Heraclides Ponticus: medical Platonism?; Chapter 7 The eclectic Pythagoreanism of Alexander Polyhistor; Introduction; Text and context. |
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Philosophical content and characterPrinciples; From numbers to the formed universe; Equality of opposite powers: light dark, hot cold, dry moist (D.L. 8.26); Air and aether, heat, divinity and the source of life (D.L. 8.26-8); Soul, reproduction, embryology (D.L. 8.28-9); The human soul (D.L. 8.29); Eschatology and rituals; Conclusions; Chapter 8 Pythagoreanising Aristotle: Eudorus and the systematisation of Platonism; Eudorus the 'academic'; Eudorus and the Pythagorean 'Timaeus' on the world soul and the generation of the universe; Platonising Pythagoras, Pythagoreanising Aristotle. |
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Eudorus and Aristotle's categoriesConcluding remarks; Chapter 9 Cicero and the Timaeus; Chapter 10 Plato's Laws and Cicero's de Legibus; Cicero's Plato; Plato's preambles: law, virtue and happiness; Cicero on law and virtue; Laws for the best state; Conclusion; Chapter 11 Of Cicero's Plato: fictions, Forms, foundations; Thinking perfection: ideal types and forms in Plato; Historical perfection in the 50s BC; Ascent to the Forms: Cicero's Epanabathmos; Forms and their function: philosophy and politics; Conclusion: why the shift?; Bibliography; Index of passages; General index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Aristotle.
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Aristotle. |
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Plato.
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Plato. |
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Philosophy, Ancient. |
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Electronic books.
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Schofield, Malcolm, editor.
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Print version: Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoreanism in the first century BC 9781107020115 (DLC) 2012025993 (OCoLC)798133503 |
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9781139625388 (electronic book) |
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1139625381 (electronic book) |
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9781139096713 (electronic book) |
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1139096710 (electronic book) |
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9781139616089 |
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1139616080 |
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9781139612364 |
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1139612360 |
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9781107020115 |
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1107020115 |
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