Research Catalog

Title

Peripatetic philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200 : an introduction and collection of sources in translation / [edited by] Robert W. Sharples ; with indexes prepared by Myrto Hatzimichali.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Additional Authors

Sharples, R. W.

Description

xix, 309 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "This book provides a collection of sources, many of them fragmentary and previously scattered and hard to access, for the development of Peripatetic philosophy in the later Hellenistic period and the early Roman Empire. It also supplies the background against which the first commentator on Aristotle from whom extensive material survives, Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. AD 200), developed his interpretations which continue to be influential even today. Many of the passages are here translated into English for the first time, including the whole of the summary of Peripatetic ethics attributed to 'Arius Didymus'"--
• "This Introduction, and the chronological table that follows it, are intended to give readers who may not be familiar with this period of Peripatetic philosophy a guide to the major trends and developments, and to introduce some of the philosophers who will be considered in the following pages. The actual ancient evidence relating to some of the identifications and dates will be found below in section 1, "People""--

Series Statement

Cambridge source books in post-Hellenistic philosophy

Subjects

• Philosophy, Ancient
• Peripatetics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-288) and indexes.

Contents

Individuals:People; The rediscovery of Aristotle's works?; A Hellenistic account of Aristotle's philosophy; Philosophy and rhetoric; The starting-point and parts of philosophy; Commentaries -- Logic and ontology: The categories: (i) placement and title; The categories: (ii) words or things?; The categories: (iii) ten categories or two?; The categories: (iv) time and place; On interpretation; Ontology: form and matter; Logic; Theory of knowledge -- Ethics: An account of Peripatetic ethics: Stobaeus, 'doxography C'; Emotions; The primary natural things: oikeiōsis; Bodily and external goods and happiness -- Physics: The nature of time and place; The eternity of the world; The heavens; God and providence; Fate, choice and what depends on us; Soul; Generation; Sensation; Intellect.

Call Number

JFE 11-93

ISBN

• 9780521884808
• 0521884802
• 9780521711852 (pbk.)
• 0521711851 (pbk.)

LCCN

2010031687

OCLC

607985699

Title

Peripatetic philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200 : an introduction and collection of sources in translation / [edited by] Robert W. Sharples ; with indexes prepared by Myrto Hatzimichali.

Imprint

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Series

Cambridge source books in post-Hellenistic philosophy

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-288) and indexes.

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Cover image

Table of contents only

Publisher description

Contributor biographical information

Added Author

Sharples, R. W.

Research Call Number

JFE 11-93