Research Catalog

Title

Themes in Neoplatonic and Aristotelian logic : order, negotiation, and abstraction / John N. Martin.

Author

Martin, John N.

Publication

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2004.

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Details

Description

xiii, 204 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"Were the most serious philosophers of the millennium A.D. 200 to A.D. 1200 just confused mystics? This book shows that such was not the case. John Martin rehabilitates Neoplatonism, founded by Plotinus and brought into Christianity by St. Augustine." "Showing Neoplatonism to be significantly richer in its logical and philosophical ideas than it is usually given credit for, this book will be of interest not just to historians of logic, but to philosophers, logicians, linguists, and theologians."--Jacket.

Subject

• Aristotle
• Aristoteles v384-v322
• Aristoteles
• Logic
• Neoplatonism
• Logic, Ancient
• Syllogism > History
• Logic
• Neo-Platonism
• logic
• Syllogism
• Logik
• Neuplatonismus
• Logica
• Neoplatonisme
• Aristotelisme

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-200) and indexes.

Contents

1. Aristotle's natural deduction reconsidered -- 2. Ecthesis and existence in the syllogistic -- 3. Existence, negation, and abstraction in the Neoplatonic hierarchy -- 4. A tense logic for Boethius -- 5. Proclus on the logic of the ineffable -- 6. Proclus and the Neoplatonic syllogistic -- 7. Ammonius on the canons of Proclus -- 8. All brutes are subhuman : Aristotle and Ockham on privative negation -- 9. Lukasiewicz's many-valued logic and Neoplatonic scalar modality.

ISBN

• 0754608115
• 9780754608110

LCCN

2003043684

OCLC

• ocm51756087
• 51756087
• SCSB-9577064

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library