The Aporetic Tradition in Ancient Philosophy
Title | The Aporetic Tradition in Ancient Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | George Karamanolis |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 329 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1107110157 |
The first comprehensive study of the function and value of aporia, or puzzlement, as a key tool in ancient philosophical enquiry.
Plato's Essentialism
Title | Plato's Essentialism PDF eBook |
Author | Vasilis Politis |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 263 |
Release | 2021-07-08 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1108988539 |
In this book, Vasilis Politis argues that Plato's Forms are essences, not merely things that have an essence. Politis shows that understanding Plato's theory of Forms as a theory of essence presents a serious challenge to contemporary philosophers who regard essentialism as little more than an optional item on the philosophical menu. This approach, he suggests, also constitutes a sharp critique of those who view Aristotelian essentialism as the only sensible position: Plato's essentialism, Politis demonstrates, is a well-argued, rigorous, and coherent theory, and a viable competitor to that of Aristotle. This book will appeal to students and scholars with an interest in the intersection between philosophy and the history of philosophy.
The Philosophy of Early Christianity
Title | The Philosophy of Early Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | George Karamanolis |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 289 |
Release | 2021-05-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0429628234 |
This new edition introduces the reader to the philosophy of early Christianity in the second to fourth centuries AD, and contextualizes the philosophical contributions of early Christians in the framework of the ancient philosophical debates. It examines the first attempts of Christian thinkers to engage with issues such as questions of cosmogony and first principles, freedom of choice, concept formation, and the body–soul relation, as well as later questions like the status of the divine persons of the Trinity. It also aims to show that the philosophy of early Christianity is part of ancient philosophy as a distinct school of thought, being in constant dialogue with the ancient philosophical schools, such as Platonism, Aristotelianism, Stoicism, and even Epicureanism and Scepticism. This book examines in detail the philosophical views of Christian thinkers such as Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Origen, Basil, and Gregory of Nyssa, and sheds light in the distinct ways they conceptualized traditional philosophical issues and made some intriguing contributions. The book’s core chapters survey the central philosophical concerns of the early Christian thinkers and examines their contributions. These range across natural philosophy, metaphysics, logic and epistemology, psychology, and ethics, and include such questions as how the world came into being, how God relates to the world, the status of matter, how we can gain knowledge, in what sense humans have freedom of choice, what the nature of soul is and how it relates to the body, and how we can attain happiness and salvation. This revised edition takes into account the recent developments in the area of later ancient philosophy, especially in the philosophy of Early Christianity, and integrates them in the relevant chapters, some of which are now heavily expanded. The Philosophy of Early Christianity remains a crucial introduction to the subject for undergraduate and postgraduate students of ancient philosophy and early Christianity, across the disciplines of classics, history, and theology.
The Structure of Enquiry in Plato's Early Dialogues
Title | The Structure of Enquiry in Plato's Early Dialogues PDF eBook |
Author | Vasilis Politis |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 267 |
Release | 2015-05-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107068118 |
Offers an alternative interpretation and defends a radically new view of Plato's method of argument in the early dialogues.
Aristotle and the Metaphysics
Title | Aristotle and the Metaphysics PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781280095313 |
Aristotle is perhaps the most important figure in Western Philosophy and his Metaphysics is a benchmark in the history of philosophy.
Ancient Philosophy of Religion
Title | Ancient Philosophy of Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Oppy |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 360 |
Release | 2014-09-12 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1317546504 |
The origins of the Western philosophical tradition lie in the ancient Greco-Roman world. This volume provides a unique insight into the life and writings of a diverse group of philosophers in antiquity and presents the latest thinking on their views on God, the gods, religious belief and practice. Beginning with the 'pre-Socratics', the volume then explores the influential contributions made to the Western philosophy of religion by the three towering figures of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. The chapters that follow cover the the leading philosophers of the major schools of the ancient world - Epicureanism, Stoicism, Neoplatonism and the early Christian Church. "Ancient Philosophy of Religion" will be of interest to scholars and students of Philosophy, Classics and Religion, while remaining accessible to any interested in the rich cultural heritage of ancient religious thought.
Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity
Title | Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | George Kazantzidis |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 308 |
Release | 2022-06-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3110771934 |
This volume focuses on the under-explored topic of emotions' implications for ancient medical theory and practice, while it also raises questions about patients' sentiments. Ancient medicine, along with philosophy, offer unique windows to professional and scientific explanatory models of emotions. Thus, the contributions included in this volume offer comparative ground that helps readers and researchers interested in ancient emotions pin down possible interfaces and differences between systematic and lay cultural understandings of emotions. Although the volume emphasizes the multifaceted links between medicine and ancient philosophical thinking, especially ethics, it also pays due attention to the representation of patients' feelings in the extant medical treatises and doctors' emotional reticence. The chapters that constitute this volume investigate a great range of medical writers including Hippocrates and the Hippocratics, and Galen, while comparative approaches to medical writings and philosophy, especially Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics, dwell on the notion of wonder/admiration (thauma), conceptualizations of the body and the soul, and the category pathos itself. The volume also sheds light on the metaphorical uses of medicine in ancient thinking.