Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: An Introduction and Collection of Sources in Translation

by R. W. Sharples

• ISBN13: 9780521884808
• ISBN10: 0521884802
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-22
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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. This book provides 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'.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
List of abbreviations	p. xviii
Introduction	p. 1
Individuals	p. 9
People	p. 11
The rediscovery of Aristotle's works?	p. 24
A Hellenistic account of Aristotle's philosophy	p. 31
Philosophy and rhetoric	p. 35
The starting-point and parts of philosophy	p. 40
Commentaries	p. 44
Logic and Ontology	p. 45
The Categories: (i) Placement and title	p. 47
The Categories: (ii) Words or things?	p. 49
The Categories: (iii) Ten categories or two?	p. 58
The Categories: (iv) Time and place	p. 64
On Interpretation	p. 70
Ontology: form and matter	p. 75
Logic	p. 90
Theory of knowledge	p. 101
Ethics	p. 109
An account of Peripatetic ethics: Stobaeus, 'Doxography C'	p. 111
Emotions	p. 134
The primary natural things: oikeiosis	p. 150
Bodily and external goods and happiness	p. 155
Physics	p. 169
The nature of time and place	p. 171
The eternity of the world	p. 175
The heavens	p. 180
God and providence	p. 196
Fate, choice and what depends on us	p. 211
Soul	p. 235
Generation	p. 252
Sensation	p. 257
Intellect	p. 266
Bibliography	p. 276
Index of sources	p. 289
Index of passages cited	p. 302
Index of personal names (ancient)	p. 305
General index	p. 307
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