Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: An Introduction and Collection of Sources in TranslationThis 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'. |
Contents
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Chapter 2 The rediscovery of Aristotles works? | 24 |
Chapter 3 A Hellenistic account of Aristotles philosophy | 31 |
Chapter 4 Philosophy and rhetoric | 35 |
Chapter 5 The starting point and parts of philosophy | 40 |
Chapter 6 Commentaries | 44 |
Chapter 16 Emotions | 134 |
oikeiosis | 150 |
Chapter 18 Bodily and external goods and happiness | 155 |
Physics | 169 |
chapter 19 The nature of time and place | 171 |
Chapter 20 The eternity of the world | 175 |
Chapter 21 The heavens | 180 |
Chapter 22 God and providence | 196 |
Logic and ontology | 45 |
i Placement and title | 47 |
ii Words or things? | 49 |
iii Ten categories or two? | 58 |
iv Time and place | 64 |
Chapter 11 On Interpretation | 70 |
form and matter | 75 |
Chapter 13 Logic | 90 |
Chapter 14 Theory of knowledge | 101 |
Ethics | 109 |
Stobaeus Doxography C | 111 |
Chapter 23 Fate choice and what depends on us | 211 |
Chapter 24 Soul | 235 |
Chapter 25 Generation | 252 |
Chapter 26 Sensation | 257 |
Chapter 27 Intellect | 266 |
Bibliography | 276 |
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