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Book SynopsisPlato's 'Timaeus' brings together a number of studies from both leading Plato specialists and up-and-coming researchers from across Europe. The contributions cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from the literary form of the work to the ontology of sense perception and the status of medicine in Timaeus' account. Although informed by a commitment to methodological diversity, the collection as a whole forms an organic unity, opening fresh perspectives on widely read passages, while shedding new light on less frequently discussed topics. The volume thus provides a valuable resource for students and researchers at all levels, whether their interest bears on the Timaeus as a whole or on a particular passage.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Genos, chōra et guerre dans le prologue du Timée-Critias  Tanja Ruben Die grosse Rede des Timaios – ein Beispiel wahrer Rhetorik?  Lucius Hartmann Panteles zōion e pantelōs on: Vita, anima e movimento intellegibile nel Timeo (e nel Sofista)  Francesco Fronterotta How to Make a Soul in the Timaeus  Luc Brisson Planets and Time: A Timaean Puzzle  Karel Thein The Day, the Month, and the Year: What Plato Expects from Astronomy  István M. Bodnár Bodies and Space in the Timaeus  Ondřej Krása Does Plato Advance a Bundle Theory in the Timaeus?  George Karamanolis Matter Doesn’t Matter: On the Status of Bodies in the Timaeus (30a–32b and 53c–61c)  Gerd Van Riel An Unnoticed Analogy between the Timaeus and the Laws  Marwan Rashed What is Perceptible in Plato’s Timaeus?  Filip Karfík Plato on Illness in the Phaedo, the Republic, and the Timaeus  Gábor Betegh Responsibility, Causality, and Will in the Timaeus  Chad Jorgenson

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Book SynopsisFrom the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is a six volume collection of Daiber’s scattered writings, journal articles, essays and encyclopaedia entries on Greek-Syriac-Arabic translations, Islamic theology and Sufism, the history of science, Islam in Europe, manuscripts and the history of oriental studies. It also includes reviews and obituaries. Vol. V and VI are catalogues of newly discovered Arabic manuscript originals and films/offprints from manuscripts related to the topics of the preceding volumes.

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Book SynopsisFrom the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is a six volume collection of Daiber’s scattered writings, journal articles, essays and encyclopaedia entries on Greek-Syriac-Arabic translations, Islamic theology and Sufism, the history of science, Islam in Europe, manuscripts and the history of oriental studies. It also includes reviews and obituaries. Vol. V and VI are catalogues of newly discovered Arabic manuscript originals and films/offprints from manuscripts related to the topics of the preceding volumes.

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Book SynopsisFraming the Dialogues: How to Read Openings and Closures in Plato is a collection of 14 chapters with an Introduction that focuses on the intricate and multifarious ways in which Plato frames his dialogues. Its main aim is to explore both the association between inner and outer framework and how this relationship contributes to, and sheds light upon, the framed dialogues and their philosophical content. All contributors to the volume advocate the significance of closures and especially openings in Plato, arguing that platonic frames should not be treated merely as ‘trimmings’ or decorative literary devices but as an integral part of the central philosophical discourse. The volume will prove to be an invaluable companion to all those interested in Plato as well as in classical literature in general.Trade Review"Overall, the volume is immensely useful as a guide on 'how to read openings and closures in Plato'. This is why, ultimately, the publication perfectly fulfils its purpose of becoming a guide to the discussion of the Platonic frameworks." - Nerea Terceiro Sanmartín, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, In: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2022.06.41.

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Book SynopsisThe ancient religious thinker Tertullian asked: “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?”, implying that faith and philosophy have nothing to say to each other. The history of this dialogue has shaped the intellectual dialogue from the very beginning right up to the present. In this book, Jerry H. Gill has traced the dynamics of this dialogue and in the conclusion he has offered his own answer to the questions it raises.Table of ContentsPreface: The Why and Wherefore A Very Happy Acknowledgement  Introduction: Faith Seeking Understanding 1 Greek Thought  1 Pre-Socratics and Socrates  2 Plato: Theistic Idealism  3 Aristotle: Rational Theology  4 Plotinus: Neo-Platonism 2 Medieval Thought  1 Irenaeus: God and Evil  2 Augustine: Christian Platonism  3 Aquinas: Christian Aristotelianism  4 Eckhart: Christian Mysticism 3 Modern Thought  1 Descartes: Rationalist Faith  2 Locke: Empiricist Faith  3 Hume: Religious Skepticism  4 Kant: Reason Seeking Faith 4 Recent Thought  1 Kierkegaard: Faith without Reason?  2 Feuerbach: Naturalistic Humanism  3 A. N. Whitehead: Process Thought  4 Tillich: Philosophical Theology  Conclusion: Reasons of the Heart Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisReading Proclus and the Book of Causes, published in three volumes, is a fresh, comprehensive understanding of the history of Neoplatonism from the 9th to the 16th century. This third volume gathers contributions on key concepts of the Platonic tradition (Proclus, Plotinus, Porphyry or Sallustius) inherited and reinterpreted by Arabic (e.g. Avicenna, the Book of Causes), Byzantine (e.g. Maximus the Confessor, Ioane Petritsi) and Latin authors (e.g. Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Berthold of Moosburg, Marsilio Ficino etc.). Two major themes are presently studied: causality (in respect to the One, the henads, the self-constituted substances and the first being) and the noetic triad (being-life-intellect).Table of ContentsNotes On Causes and the Noetic Triad  Dragos Calma Part 1 Causes Section 1 One and Participation 1 Proclus’ Elements of Theology and Platonic Dialectics  Jan Opsomer 2 Substantia stans per essentiam suam: Proclus et l’ auteur du De causis sur les êtres qui se constituent eux-mêmes  Carlos Steel 3 Regards croisés sur la cause première: Plotin, Porphyre, Victorinus, Saloustios, Proclus  Anca Vasiliu 4 L’ Être premier—entre Proclus et Denys l’ Aréopagite  Marilena Vlad 5 Proclus’ Reception in Maximus the Confessor, Mediated through John Philoponus and Dionysius the Ps.-Areopagite: A Case Study of Ambiguum 7  Jonathan Greig 6 Henads as Divine Images: The Epistemological and Ontological Significance of Inner Light and Creation of a New Subjectivity in Ioane Petritsi’s Metaphysics  Levan Gigineishvili 7 Cause and Effect in Petritsi’s Commentary on Proclus’ Elements of Theology  Lela Alexidze 8 Virtus and Causae Primordiales in Berthold’s Expositio  Ezequiel Ludueña Section 2 Causality and Free Will 9 Causalité et pouvoir: autour des traces du Liber de causis dans la Métaphysique d’ Avicenne  Olga Lizzini 10 God’s Existence and Essence: The Liber de causis and School Discussions in the Metaphysics of Avicenna  Amos Bertolacci 11 The Causal Efficacy of Nature in the Neoplatonica Arabica  Bethany Somma 12 Thomas d’ Aquin, l’ étiologie proclusienne, et la théorie du concours de Dieu à la causalité naturelle  Jean-Luc Solère 13 Deux modèles de causalité, deux théories de la liberté: À propos de deux interprétations de la proposition I du Livre des causes  Olivier Boulnois 14 “Agir par son être-même”: La question de la liberté créatrice dans le Liber de causis et sa réception chez Albert le Grand  Isabelle Moulin Part 2 The Noetic Triad: Being, Life, Intellect 15 The Early History of the Noetic Triad  John Dillon 16 Some Overlooked Sources of the Elements of Theology: The Noetic Triad, Epistrophé, Apokatastasis, Bodies, God, “All in All” and the Possible Reception of Origenian Themes  Ilaria Ramelli 17 Le chapitre XI[XII] du Liber de causis commenté par Albert le Grand: l’ unité de la cause et de son effet comme immanence réciproque  Julie Casteigt 18 L’ exemple de la triade esse, vivum, homo dans les commentaires latins du XIIIe siècle au Liber de causis, entre réalisme des universaux et pluralité des formes substantielles  Julie Brumberg-Chaumont 19 Self-Knowledge and Reditio Completa: Two Mid-13th-Century Interpretations of the Liber de causis, prop. XIV(XV) (Roger Bacon, Ps-Henry of Ghent)  Thérèse Scarpelli Cory 20 Marsilio Ficino on The Triad Being-Life-Intellect and the Demiurge: Renaissance Reappraisals of Late Ancient Philosophical and Theological Debates  Denis J.-J. Robichaud Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume—the proceedings of a 2018 conference at LMU Munich funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation—brings together, for the first time, experts on Greek, Syriac, and Arabic traditions of doxography. Fourteen contributions provide new insight into state-of-the-art contemporary research on the widespread phenomenon of doxography. Together, they demonstrate how Greek, Syriac, and Arabic forms of doxography share common features and raise related questions that benefit interdisciplinary exchange among colleagues from various disciplines, such as classics, Arabic studies, and the history of philosophy.Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Doxography: Ends and Means  Andreas Lammer and Mareike Jas 1 Making Sense of Other Philosophers: Exegesis and Interpretation in Aristotle  Christian Pfeiffer 2 Helping the Reader: The Paratextual Elements in the Aëtian Placita in the Framework of Its Genre  Jaap Mansfeld 3 Irreducible Texts: The Implications for an Edition of the Aëtian Placita  David T. Runia 4 Heraclitus on Principles: A Stoic Lemma in Aëtius?  Max Bergamo 5 Presocratics and Presocratic Philosophy in Galen  Teun Tieleman 6 “Reputable Opinions” (endoxa) in Aristotle, Theophrastus, and Simplicius: Doxography or Endoxography?  Han Baltussen 7 Interpreting Parmenides of Elea in Antiquity: From Plato’s Parmenides to Simplicius’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics  Christoph Helmig 8 Greek Philosophers in Monastic Schools: Syriac Forms of Doxography  Yury Arzhanov 9 Doxography as Textbook: An Arabic Excerpt of Ps.-Plutarch’s Placita philosophorum  Ute Pietruschka 10 Not Everything That Looks Like a Doxography is One: The Philosophical Compilation in the Tehran MS Ketābḫāne-ye Markazī-ye Dānešgāh 2103  Elvira Wakelnig 11 Reporting the Dualists: al-Ṯanawiyya as a Doxological Category in Classical Kalām  David Bennett 12 Doxography and Philosophical Method: Avicenna’s Treatment of Presocratic Opinions  Andreas Lammer 13 Ibn Ṭufayl’s Use and Misuse of His Predecessors  Bethany Somma 14 A Case Study in Arabic Doxography: Šahrastānī’s Account of Pythagoras and Its Ismāʿīlī Background  Fedor Benevich Index

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Book SynopsisThe trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition investigates how Aristotle and his ancient and medieval successors understood the relation between the external world and the human mind. It gives an equal footing to the three most influential linguistic traditions – Greek, Latin, and Arabic – and offers insightful interpretations of historical theories of perception, dreaming, and thinking. This first volume focuses on sense perception and discusses philosophical questions concerning the external senses, their classification, and their functioning, from Aristotle to Brentano.Table of ContentsContents Preface Abbreviations General Introduction  Sten Ebbesen Introduction: Sense Perception in Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition  Pavel Gregoric and Jakob Leth Fink 1 Aristotle and Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Individuation and Hierarchy of the Senses  Katerina Ierodiakonou 2 Aristotle on Incidental Perception  Mika Perälä 3 Sense Perception in the Arabic Tradition: The Controversy Concerning Causality  David Bennett 4 Avicenna on Perception, Cognition, and Mental Disorders: The Case of Hallucination  Ahmed Alwishah 5 Perceiving Many Things Simultaneously: Medieval Reception of an Aristotelian Problem  Juhana Toivanen 6 Affected by the Matter: The Question of Plant Perception in the Medieval Latin Tradition on De somno et vigilia  Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist 7 Autoscopy in Meteorologica 3.4: Following Some Strands in the Greek, Arabic, and Latin Commentary Traditions  Filip Radovic and David Bennett 8 Brentano’s Aristotelian Account of the Classification of the Senses  Hamid Taieb Bibliography Indices

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Book SynopsisThe trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition investigates how Aristotle and his ancient and medieval successors understood the relation between the external world and the human mind. It gives an equal footing to the three most influential linguistic traditions – Greek, Latin, and Arabic – and offers insightful interpretations of historical theories of perception, dreaming, and thinking. This second volume focuses on dreaming and analyses some of the most prominent problems connected to dreams as representations. The contributions in this volume address the core Aristotelian texts and their reception, up to and including contemporary scientific discourse on dreaming.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Introduction: Sleeping and Dreaming in Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition  Pavel Gregoric and Jakob Leth Fink 1 Aristotle and Michael of Ephesus on the Deceptive Character of Dreams  Pavel Gregoric 2 Aristotle on Signs in Sleep: Natural Signification and Dream Interpretation  Filip Radovic 3 Avicenna’s Dreaming in Context  David Bennett 4 Averroes on Divinatory Dreaming  Rotraud Hansberger 5 How Dreams Are Made: Some Latin Medieval Commentators on Dream Formation in Aristotle’s De insomniis  Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist 6 What Does a Scholastic Philosopher Do When He Disagrees with Aristotle? Commentaries on Aristotle’s Divination in Sleep  Sten Ebbesen 7 The Ghost of Aristotle in Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary Accounts of Delusional Dreaming  Filip Radovic Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition investigates how Aristotle and his ancient and medieval successors understood the relation between the external world and the human mind. It gives an equal footing to the three most influential linguistic traditions – Greek, Latin, and Arabic – and offers insightful interpretations of historical theories of perception, dreaming, and thinking. This final volume focuses on intellectual operations and analyses some of the most exciting issues pertaining to the conceptual representation of the external world. The contributions cover the historical traditions and their impact on contemporary philosophy of mind.Table of ContentsPreface  Christina Thomsen Thörnqvist and Juhana Toivanen Abbreviations Introduction: Cognition and Conceptualisation in the Aristotelian Tradition  Sten Ebbesen and Pavel Gregoric 1 Aristotle’s Light Analogy in the Greek Tradition  Börje Bydén 2 Introducing the Maʿānī  David Bennett 3 Avicenna on the Semantics of Maʿnā  Seyed N. Mousavian 4 Avicenna on Talking about Nothing  Seyed N. Mousavian 5 Abstraction and Intellection of Essences in the Latin Tradition  Ana María Mora-Márquez 6 John of Jandun on How to Understand Many Things at the Same Time  Michael Stenskjær Christensen 7 Concept Empiricisms, Ancient and Modern  Alexander Greenberg Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In this book, Ota Gál presents a new analysis of Plotinus' conception of beauty, beginning from a close reading of treatises I.6 and V.8, which link beauty with the unified multiplicity of Intellect. This account is subsequently placed in a hierarchical and structural context in VI.2 and VI.6 and connected to illumination in VI.7, enabling us to determine the meaning of the predicate “beauty” at different ontological levels. For Plotinus, beauty is ultimately the illuminated unity in multiplicity of Intellect, which, as the manifestation of the Good, simultaneously enables the soul’s ascent and threatens to bind the soul to itself.Trade Review"...this is a very good book, well worth the time not only of one interested in Plotinus and in the topic of beauty, but also in the view held universally by all Platonists that beauty is not separable from morality or from metaphysics." - Lloyd P. Gerson, BMCR 2023.01.35Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1.1 Beauty in Plotinus: Where and How to Start?  1.2 Treatise V.8: Plotinus the Defender, or the Top-Down Perspective  1.3 Treatise I.6: An Introduction to Plotinus, or the Bottom-Up Perspective  1.4 On the Kinds of Being: Plotinus the Exegete  1.5 On Number: Plotinus the Explorer  1.6 Treatise VI.7: The Many Faces of Plotinus and Beauty 2 Beauty as a Stepping-Stone (Treatise I.6)  2.1 The Phenomenal Field of Beauty  2.2 The Context of the Question: The Symposium and Beauty as Symmetry  2.3 The Cause of Beauty and Ugliness in Bodies  2.4 The Impact of Beauty on Soul  2.5 The Cause of Beauty and Ugliness in Soul  2.6 The Hierarchy of Beauty and What Is at the Top 3 Intelligible Beauty (Treatise V.8)  3.1 Productive Contemplation  3.2 The Defence of τέχνη and Sensible Beauty  3.3 The Beauty of Soul: The Cosmic Dimension  3.4 The Correct Understanding of Intellect and Its Beauty  3.5 The Οὐρανός—Κρόνος—Ζεύς Myth: Consequences for Beauty and the Good 4 Unity, Multiplicity and the Highest Kinds (Treatise VI.2)  4.1 The Focus of VI.1–3 and the Quest for the Highest Kinds (VI.2.1–3)  4.2 Establishing the Five Highest Kinds (VI.2.4–8)  4.3 Is the One To Be Counted among the Highest Kinds? (VI.2.9–11)  4.4 Tentative Summary: The Unity and Multiplicity of Intellect in VI.2  4.5 Is Beauty To Be Counted among the Highest Kinds? (VI.2.17–18) 5 Unity, Multiplicity and the Numbers (Treatise VI.6)  5.1 The Context of the Quest for the Notion of Number (V.5.4–5 and VI.6.1)  5.2 Defined Multiplicity, Form of Beauty and the Indefinite Dyad (VI.6.1–3)  5.3 Number in the Intelligible (VI.6.4–8)  5.4 The Role of Number in the Generation of Beings (VI.6.9–10)  5.5 Number and Beauty (VI.6.18) 6 Beauty as the Manifestation of the Good (Treatise VI.7)  6.1 The Ascent to Intellect as Life (VI.7.1–12)  6.2 The Context of the Question of the Presence of the Good in Intellect (VI.7.13–14)  6.3 The Presence of the Good in Intellect: The Top-Down Answer (VI.7.15–17)  6.4 The Presence of the Good in Intellect: The Bottom-Up Answer (VI.7.18–23)  6.5 Alternative Notions of the Good and the True Meaning of Plato’s Doctrine (VI.7.24–30)  6.6 The Good from the Perspective of Beauty and Love (VI.7.31–36)  6.7 The Good and Intellection (VI.7.37–42) 7 Beauty as Illuminated Unity in Multiplicity  7.1 Beauty on the Level of Sensibles  7.2 Beauty on the Level of Soul  7.3 Beauty on the Level of Intellect  7.4 Beauty and the Good  7.5 Beauty as Such Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisÉcrite entre 386 et 390 dans l’effervescence de la découverte du néoplatonisme, la correspondance avec Nebridius témoigne, bien avant les Confessions, des questions philosophiques et spirituelles qui passionnaient Augustin au moment de sa conversion à la philosophie et au christianisme. Written between 386 and 390 during the excitement of his discovery of Neoplatonism, Augustine’s correspondence with Nebridius bears witness, well before the Confessions, to the philosophical and spiritual questions that fascinated Augustine at the time of his conversion to philosophy and Christianity.Table of Contentsb>Remerciements Introduction  1 Néoplatonisme et christianisme  2 Aspects littéraires et philosophiques  3 La vie de Nebridius  4 État du corpus et chronologie  5 Le texte latin des Lettres 3-14 Epistulae 3-14 (texte latin) Lettres 3-14 (traduction française) La finitude du monde et l’immortalité de l’âme (Lettre 3)  1 Augustin est-il heureux (§1-2) ?  2 Trois connaissances élémentaires en physique (§2)  3 Pourquoi le monde a-t-il la taille qu’il a (§2) ?  4 Pourquoi le monde est-il là où il est (§2) ?  5 La comparaison des miroirs (§3)  6 Une démonstration de l’immortalité de l’âme (§4)  7 Ce qui doit « être désiré » : cupi ou cupiri ? (§5) Le progrès dans la distinction entre le sensible et l’intelligible (Lettre 4)  1 Le progrès (§1-2)  2 L’élévation vers Dieu (§2) L’hypothèse d’un quasi-corps qui serait le véhicule de l’âme (Lettre 13)  1 Un ancien sujet de conversation (§1-2)  2 Le πνεῦμα-ὄχημα  3 Le problème de l’existence du « véhicule » de l’âme (§2-4)  4 Le maintien du refus du « véhicule » de l’âme L’attachement à Dieu et l’engagement dans la vie publique (Lettre 5 de Nebridius)  1 La fondation à Thagaste d’une communauté religieuse  2 Une exhortation à revenir au loisir  3 La situation à Thagaste Deux questions sur la phantasia (Lettre 6 de Nebridius)  1 Le prologue (§1)  2 La mémoire peut-elle exister sans la phantasia ? (§1)  3 La phantasia tient-elle d’elle-même ses images ? (§2) L’imagination, la mémoire et l’intellection (Lettre 7)  1 « Il peut y avoir une mémoire de certaines choses sans aucune imagination » (§1-2)  2 L’âme ne peut pas former d’images avant d’avoir usé des sens (§3-7) Comment les « puissances supérieures » font-elles voir des images en rêves (Lettre 8 de Nebridius) ?  1 La suite des questions de Nebridius sur la phantasia  2 Une question suscitée par la Lettre à Anébon ?  3 Trois hypothèses sur le mode opératoire des « puissances supérieures » Une explication du mode d’action des « puissances supérieures » sur l’âme (Lettre 9)  1 La chronologie de l’échange sur les rêves (§1-2)  2 Une explication « probable » fondée sur l’interaction de l’âme et du corps (§3-5)  3 Un problème demeuré irrésolu L’individualité (Lettre 14)  1 Les questions les plus récentes de Nebridius (§1-2)  2 Des astres et des hommes (§2-3)  3 Dieu contient-il la forme des différents individus humains ou seulement celle de l’homme (§4) ? Pourquoi est-ce le Fils qui s’est incarné (I) (Lettre 12) ?  1 La gestion de la correspondance avec Nebridius  2 Une nouvelle question de Nebridius sur le Christ L’assimilation à Dieu dans le loisir (Lettre 10)  1 Comment vivre ensemble (§1) ?  2 Le loisir et l’assimilation à Dieu (§2)  3 Il est possible de connaître le bonheur dans cette vie (§3) Pourquoi est-ce le Fils qui s’est incarné (II) (Lettre 11) ?  1 Un nouveau point sur les échanges en cours (§1)  2 Reformulation de la question théologique de Nebridius (§2)  3 La formation de l’ontologie trinitaire  4 Comment est comprise l’inséparabilité de la Trinité (§3)  5 La « manence »  6 Le rôle du Fils (§4)  7 Développements ultérieurs du problème de Nebridius : l’inséparabilité de la Trinité et l’Incarnation du Fils Conclusion Bibliographie

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Book SynopsisWhat is the role of Hesiod’s poetry in the beginnings of Greek philosophy? This book explores the question by going beyond the traditional responses that stress either continuities or discontinuities between myth and philosophy. Instead, this volume attempts a reflexive or response-oriented approach, that highlights the active re-appropriation and renewal of Hesiodic thought by the Presocratic philosophers. Its fifteen contributions offer large scale comparisons, historiographical considerations, thematic and generic approaches, and detailed case studies.Trade Review"The collection is a very fine exception to the tendency of conference volumes to be frustrating to read straight through even when individual papers are excellent. (...) the volume is coherent not only in its overall topic but in aspects of its approach to the question of how we should locate Hesiod in relation to the Presocratics. It moves away from the traditional formulation of a transition from mythos to logos and from the relatively crude question of whether we should emphasize that Hesiod composed mythical genealogies and so belongs to a pre-rational strain of thought or instead that he creates a totalizing system that anticipates later efforts to comprehend the whole of nature. Instead, it tries both to rethink the questions and to examine particular ways that later thinkers engaged with Hesiod.(...) Iribarren and Koning’s unusually thoughtful and helpful introduction summarizes the modern history of scholarship on Hesiod and the Presocratics. It contextualizes the fifteen papers that follow, providing a richer and more useful account of how this volume functions in relation to earlier discussions than this review possibly can." Ruth Scodell in BMCR 2023.02.17Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Leopoldo Iribarren and Hugo Koning Part 1 Reflections on Hesiod’s Poetry and the Beginnings of Philosophy 1 On Naming the Origins: Hesiod vs. the Ionians 2 Aristotelian Perspectives on Hesiod: A Programmatic Sketch  André Laks 3 Hesiod and the Presocratics: A Hellenistic Perspective?  Richard Hunter Part 2 Comparisons of Form and Genre 4 Hesiod, the Presocratic Poets, Aristeas, Epimenides and the Gold Tablets: Genre and Narrative  Tom Mackenzie 5 The World of the Catalogue  Glenn W. Most 6 A Grammar of Self-Referential Statements: Claims for Authority from Hesiod to the Presocratics  Ilaria Andolfi Part 3 Contrasting Worldviews 7 Thinking about Time and Eternity—From Hesiod and the Presocratics to Plato and Aristotle  Sandra Šćepanović 8 δίκη in Hesiod, Anaximander and Heraclitus  Stephen Scully 9 Xenophanes’ Rejection of Theogony  Shaul Tor 10 Hesiod Reads Empedocles  Jenny Strauss Clay Part 4 Intertextuality and Continuity 11 Parmenides and the Language of Constraint  Kathryn Morgan 12 Hesiod and Some Linguistic Approaches of the 5th Centure BCE  Athanassios Vergados 13 Addressees, Knowledge, and Action in Hesiod and Empedocles  Xavier Gheerbrant 14 Divine Crime and Punishment: Breaking the Cosmic Law in Hesiod’s Theogony 783–806 and Empedocles’ Fragment DK B115  Marco Antonio Santamaría 15 From Humans to Kosmos: Daimones in the Derveni Papyrus between Hesiod and Plato  Valeria Piano General Index Index Locorum

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Book SynopsisThis is a critical edition of Nikola Vitov Gučetić’s (1549–1610) Commentary on the First Book of Aristotle’s ‘Rhetoric’, with an introductory study and supplementary materials. The purpose of the edition is to provide a clear Latin text for scholars and students of the humanities, especially researchers in Renaissance rhetoric and philosophy. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of the history and culture of Dubrovnik. Gučetić’s Commentary gives a precious glimpse into the transformative character of Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the Renaissance, demonstrating the profound influence this ancient text had not only on leading Humanist scholars and renowned Renaissance philosophers, but also on lesser-known thinkers who depended on the art of persuasion in their political and judicial careers.

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Book SynopsisThis is a ground-breaking philosophical-historical study of the work of Galen of Pergamum. It contains four case-studies on (1) Galen’s remarkable and original thoughts on the relation between body and soul, (2) his notion of human nature, (3) his engagement with Plato’s Timaeus, (4) and black bile and melancholy. It shows that Galen develops an innovative view of human nature that problematizes the distinction between body and soul.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Other Notes Introduction 1 The Cultivation of the Soul in a ‘Physicalist’ World  Ethical Philosophy in Galen’s QAM  Introduction  1 Aristotle and the Non-rational Parts of the Soul  2 Plato and the Rational Part of the Soul  3 Positioning in the Scholarly Debate  4 The Possible Continuity in the Divine and Human Formation of the Bodily Mixture  Conclusion 2 Galen on the Nature of Man  Introduction  1 The Primary Substance  2 Divisio ad principes: a Hippocratic-Platonic Method  3 Elements and Qualities  4 Grades and Shades of Nature  5 Nature of the Body, Nature of the Soul  Conclusion 3 Soul, Mixture and Galen’s Timaeus  Introduction  1 Sources  2 Scope of the Commentary  3 Basic Tendencies in Galen’s Interpretation of the Timaeus  4 Comparing Galen’s Timaeus to the Larrain Fragments  Conclusion 4 Galen on Black Bile and Melancholy  Introduction  1 Precedents  2 Galen on Black Bile  3 Galen on Melancholy  Conclusion on Black Bile and Melancholy General Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book shows that a rigorous study of Aristotle’s Metaphysics is not simply an exercise in the history of astronomy, but constitutes a broad inquiry into our germinal ideas about speed, motion, and the spherical nature of celestial entities, as well as the relation between theology and gnoseology. Many have heard of Aristotle’s First Unmoved Mover, the one that moves all things without being moved. Very few, however, have managed to capture the ultimate meaning of that entity. One of the goals of this book is to explore why the existence of such a First Unmoved Mover is necessary, but the journey to this end allows us to understand why Aristotle maintained that there are a total of 55 Unmoved Movers, not just one. The key is Aristotelian astronomy, little studied so far in comparison with other aspects of his thought. In this solid piece of research and free philosophical speculation that Botteri & Casazza offer us, the authors’ gaze raised to the sky—by means of the naked-eye analysis of celestial movements—leads to the reconstruction of Aristotle’s astronomical system, key to understanding his cosmology, his physics, and even his metaphysics. This book is a revised English translation from the original Spanish publication El sistema astronómico de Aristoteles: Una interpretación, published by Ediciones Biblioteca Nacional, Buenos Aires, 2015.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements for this Translated Edition Acknowledgements to the Original Edition Abbreviations Prologue, by Horacio Gonzalez Introduction 1. The Spherical, Limited, and Hierarchical Cosmology of Aristotle 2. The Spherical Whole in Pre-Socratic Philosophy 3. The Platonic Mandate: Reducing Celestial Phenomena to Circular Motions 4. Eudoxus and Callippus: Planetary Models  4.1 The Heavens and the Compass  4.2 Planetary Trajectories 5. Aristotle’s Astronomical System  5.1 The Prime Mover and Unmoved Movers  5.2 Unmoved Movers and Celestial Spheres  5.3 Kinematics and Dynamics  5.4 The Integration of Planetary Spheres  5.5 The First Heaven and Wandering Stars  5.6 Two Celestial Systems 6. Metaphysics, , 8 and the Genetic Interpretation 7. Aristotle’s Meta-Astral Theology 8. The Animation of Celestial Bodies 9. Aristotle’s System in Perspective Appendices  Text Fragments  Eudoxus’s System: Additional Resources  The Grupo de Estudio del Cielo Sources Bibliography Subject index Author index

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Book SynopsisDieses Buch deckt die Hauptgründe für die auffallende Prominenz des Chortanzes in Platons Nomoi auf und bietet eine innovative Deutung der komplexen Komposition des Dialogs. This book uncovers the principal reasons for the striking prominence of choral dance in Plato’s Laws and offers a highly innovative account of the dialogue’s complex composition.Table of ContentsVorwort 1 Einleitung  1 Eine tanzende Stadt  2 Zum Stand der Forschung  3 Vorhaben 2 Prooimion  1 Grundzüge der Nomoi  2 Die Sprache des Ungefähren: Einige Bemerkungen zum Stil Erster Teil: Moralpsychologie 3 Die Marionette im Rausch  1 Einleitung  2 Die These  3 Krieg und Frieden: Der Kontext in Nomoi 1  4 Die Marionette als Projektionsfläche der umgekehrten Analogie 4 Mäßigung (σωφροσύνη): Eine uneinheitliche Konzeption?  1 Einleitung  2 Mäßigung als bürgerliche Tugend  3 Mäßigung in Nomoi 3–5  4 Appendix. Πᾶσα ἀρετή: Die übrigen Tugenden ἀνδρεία, φρόνησις, δικαιοσύνη 5 Scham (αἰδώς und αἰσχύνη): Eine göttliche Furcht  1 Einleitung  2 Scham als moralische Emotion  3 Die Drei Chöre des zweiten Buchs I: Scham, Mäßigung und Lebenszeit Zweiter Teil: Chortanz (χορεία) 6 Das Verhältnis von Nomoi 2 und 7: Ein ungelöstes Problem  1 Einleitung  2 Das zweite Buch: Eine ‚Abschweifung‘ im Gespräch?  3 Das siebte Buch: Eine ‚Ergänzung‘ zum zweiten?  4 Die Drei Chöre des zweiten Buchs II: Ein Fest für Dionysos 7 Ebenen der Mimesis: Tanz und Gemeinschaft  1 Einleitung  2 Mimesis und Tanz  3 Die Drei Chöre des zweiten Buches III: Mimesis und Gesellschaft 8 Tanz mit den Göttern: Religion und Kult in den Nomoi  1 Einleitung  2 Elemente der Polis-Religion  3 Die schönste und beste Tragödie  4 Eine schlechte Allseele? 9 Schlusswort Bibliographie  Ausgaben, Übersetzungen und Kommentare  Hilfsmittel  Kritische Literatur

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Book SynopsisThis book recovers Dionysus and Apollo as the twin conceptual personae of life’s dual rhythm in an attempt to redesign contemporary theory through the reciprocal affirmation of event and form, earth and world, dance and philosophy. It revisits Heidegger and Lévi-Strauss, and combines them with Roy Wagner, with the purpose of moving beyond Nietzsche’s manifold legacy, including post-structuralism, new materialism, and speculative realism. It asks whether merging philosophy and anthropology around issues of comparative ontologies may give us a chance to re-become earthbound dwellers on a re-worlded earth.Trade Review"This book reappraises the quality of Apollo as a conceptual and political necessity for a world whose nightmarish master signifier, and rule in the end, is one of instability, crisis, war, and – to use another important concept in this book – nihilism. Even chaos needs a form of meta-stability to display its beauty." – Frédéric Neyrat, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Dionysus and Apollo after Nihilism is an ambitious and timely intervention in the contemporary philosophical scene. Rich with insight and erudition, this book is a significant contribution to recasting critical diagnoses of the present and explorations 'otherwise' within the differential terrain of ontological pluralism." – Jarrad Reddekop, Camosun CollegeTable of ContentsList of Figures 1 Introduction  1 The Idea behind This Book  2 Mapping the Issues  3 Brief Outline of the Book’s Chapters and Their Sources  4 A Note on Style, Translations, and Conventions 2 Dionysus in Greece  1 Untamed Life  2 An Olympian God?  3 The Unity of the Living  4 An Integrative God  5 Dionysus and Ontology 3 The Greek Apollo  1 Apollo’s Gaze  2 Apollo’s Distance  3 Apollo’s Arrows  4 Apollo and the Birth of Philosophy  5 Apollo, Dionysus, and the Earth 4 The Modern Misadventures of Apollo and Dionysus  1 Achilles and Odysseus  2 Nietzsche’s Dionysian Philosophy  3 Dionysus’s Maelstrom  4 Winckelmann’s Apollo  5 A Queer Ideal?  6 Dionysus’s Bequest 5 Thinking with Apollo  1 Apollo’s Marble  2 Apollo’s Stereogram  3 Apollo’s Screen  4 Apollo’s Blackout  5 Apollo’s Silence  6 Wordling(s): the Earth’s Reflexivity 6 Dancing with Dionysus  1 Our Living Body  2 The Purpose of Dancing  3 Artaud and Hijikata  4 Butō: Animism redux  5 Intersections  6 A Twofold Legacy 7 Back to Structuralism?  1 Structuralism as a Philosophy of Difference  2 The Post-structuralist Waterline  3 Ontological Pluralism and the Neo-structuralist Worlding Star 8 Conclusion: Post-metaphysics and Its Doubles  1 On Post-nihilism and the Subject/Object Divide  2 Destiny and the Otherwise  3 Dionysus and Apollo, Twins  4 À rebours Appendix 1: Development of the Ontological Pentagram Appendix 2: Development of the Modal Pentagram Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book gives us a new perspective on the Philosophy according to the Chaldean Oracles by Porphyry of Tyre (ca. 232/305 CE), demonstrating that much of what we thought we knew about this work and its fragments is mistaken. Here, for the first time, the attempt is made at reconstructing the original text by following the vicissitudes of its reception and transmission from Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance up to modern scholarship. The extensive and painstaking study of the surviving fragments leads to the radically innovative conclusion that this encyclopedic treatise, written by Porphyry in the last decades of the 3rd century CE, consisted of fifteen books organized in various sections. After an initial discussion of the nature of theurgy and of its subordinate role with respect to philosophy, Porphyry describes the entire history of Greek philosophy from Homer up to his own teacher Plotinus, to then go on to present “introductions” to the seven encyclical disciplines whose study is required for the comprehension of theosophy, that is, the esoteric speculation on the three parts of philosophy: anthropology-ethics, physics, and metaphysics-theology. By harmonizing the teachings of Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and the Chaldean Oracles, Porphyry intends to present the complete and definitive philosophic system, with the aim of showing the universal way for the liberation of the souls of initiates and of contextually fighting the final battle of the Greco-Roman civilization against Christianity.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowlegments Abbreviations Introduction Part 1 Preliminary Questions 1 A Philosophy Conforming with the “Chaldean Oracles” 2 An Esoteric Philosophy for the Salvation of the Soul 3 The First Commentary on the “Chaldean Oracles” 4 Zoroaster, the Magi, and the “Chaldean Oracles” 5 Polemics against the Christians 6 Some Further Consequences Part 2 Χρηστικη Πραγματεια Statues, Sacrifices and Oracles 7 Philosophy versus Theurgy 8 The Orphic Prorrhesis and the Statues of the Gods 9 The Universal Way for the Salvation of the Soul 10 Sacrifices and Oracles 11 The Letter to Anebo and the Response by Iamblichus 12 Chaldean Philosophy versus Chaldean Theology 13 The Anti-Christian Oracles of Hekate and Apollo 14 Against Origen’s Allegorical Interpretation of the Jewish Scriptures 15 Against Origen’s Allegorical Interpretation of Homer Part 3 Πολλων Των Κατα Φιλοσοφιαν Δογματων Αναγραφη The History of Philosophy and the Encyclical Disciplines 16 The Chronicle of Greek Philosophy from the Fall of Troy to the Reign of Claudius 17 The History of Greek Philosophy from Homer to Plato 18 The History of Greek Philosophy from the Old Academy to Plotinus 19 The Two Editions of the Life of Plotinus 20 The Truest Philosophy of Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle 21 The Oracle of Apollo on Plotinus’s Soul 22 Porphyry and the Encyclical Disciplines 23 The Mathematical Disciplines 24 Augustine on the Encyclical Disciplines 25 The Encyclical Disciplines against the Christians Part 4 Θεοσοφια Theological Wisdom for the Salvation of the Soul 26 The Threefold Division of Philosophy 27 Two Preliminary Methodological Issues 28 On the Union of Soul and Body 29 A Collection of Hieroi Logoi on the Soul 30 The Immortality of the Soul 31 Self-Determination and Transmigration of the Soul 32 Homer’s Philosophy of the Soul 33 From Anthropology-Ethics to Physics 34 From Physics to Metaphysics-Theology 35 Theology as the Fulfilment of Theosophy 36 Further Theological Fragments 37 Three Books against the Religion and Name of the Christians Part 5 Reception in the Latin, Byzantine, and Arabic Traditions 38 The Latin Reception 39 Augustine and Macrobius 40 The Byzantine Reception 41 The Relationship with “On Abstinence” 42 A Byzantine Epitome of Porphyry’s Theosophy 43 An Arabic Translation of Porphyry’s Theology 44 The Philosophy of the Few Conclusion: A Tentative Reconstruction of the Philosophy according to the Chaldean Oracles Bibliography Index of Ancient, Medieval and Modern Authors

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Book SynopsisThis book contains fifteen essays all seeking to regain the original meaning of philosophy as the love of wisdom. Mythos and Logos are two essential aspects of a quest that began with the ancient Greeks. As concepts fundamental to human experience, Mythos and Logos continue to guide the search for truth in the twenty-first century.Trade Review"This is a valuable book, jam-packed with learning and insight, cosmopolitan in scope, timely yet classically anchored. An achievement of intellectual beauty. This is how I like to see philosophy conducted." – Robert Ginsberg, Director, International Center for the Arts, Humanities, and Value InquiryTable of ContentsEditorial Foreword Editorial Introduction: Loving Wisdom by Albert Anderson, Steven V. Hicks, and Lech Witkowski Section 1: Mythos, Logos, and Atopia: Philosophy as Disruptive Wisdom ONE Steven V. HICKS and Alan ROSENBERG: Philosophy as Atopos: Disruptive Wisdom as a Way of Life TWO Charles E. SCOTT: Helen, Heidegger, and the Wisdom of Nemesis THREE David KONSTAN: Parrhēsia: Ancient Philosophy in Opposition FOUR Steven V. HICKS and Alan ROSENBERG: The Figural Dimension of Nietzsche's Thought Section 2: Aesthetic and Psychological Perspectives FIVE Albert A. ANDERSON: Mythos, Logos, and Telos: How to Regain the Love of Wisdom SIX Joel BECK: Bearing Insight: Anxious Wisdom SEVEN Kyoo E. LEE: Poetics of Philosophical Somnambulism: A Case of Descartes the Olympian Dreamer EIGHT Bret W. DAVIS: A Socrates Who Practices Music: The Dynamic Intertwining of Mythos and Logos: Art and Science in Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy NINE Victor J. KREBS: Descending into Primaeval Chaos: Philosophy, the Body, and the Pygmalionic Impulse Section 3: Ancient Wisdom and Its Modern Shapes TEN William Andrew MYERS: Heraclitus' Logos as a Paradigm of the Human Universal ELEVEN Władyslaw Stróżewski: Logos and Mythos TWELVE Paul C. SANTILLI and Kristine S. SANTILLI: On the Strange Relation between Heroic Socrates and Wise Achilles Section 4: Social Cultural, and Religious Visions of Wisdom THIRTEEN Franklin PERKINS: Wisdom in Mengzi: Between Self and Nature FOURTEEN Daniel E. SHANNON: Schelling's Philosophy of Mythology: The Value of Myth to Philosophy FIFTEEN Keping WANG: Zhuangzi’s Way of Thinking through Fables About the Contributors Index

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Table of ContentsAlexander BÖHLIG: Vorwort. Der Manichäismus und das Christentum. Bemerkungen zur Metaphysik in Gnosis und Philosophie. Die Bedeutung des CMC für den Manichäismus. Mani und Platon - ein Vergleich. Wolfgang FAUTH: Manis anderes Ich. Gestalthafte Metaphysik im Kölner Mani-Kodex. Syzygos und Eikon. Edgar FRÜCHTEL: Platonismus und Christentum. Einige Bemerkungen zu Zeit und Zeitlichkeit in der Platonica Theologia des Marsilius Ficinus. Einige Bemerkungen zum Bild des Seelenwagenlenkers. Carl-A. KELLER: Gnostik, Urform christlicher Mystik. Christoph MARKSCHIES: Die Krise einer philosophischen Theologie.

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Book SynopsisDie vorliegenden Untersuchungen zu Aristoteles' Naturphilosophie interpretieren Haupttexte aus seinen Schriften Physik, Über Entstehen und Vergehen, Über die Entstehung der Lebewesen, Über die Seele. Sie führen zu einigen wichtigen Einsichten über die Natur, die Materie, die Zeit, die Bewegungs- und Zweckursache u.a. und erheben ihre aktuelle Bedeutung für die gegenwärtigen interdisziplinären Diskussionen zwischen Naturphilosophie, Physik, Biologie, Psychologie und Anthropologie.Table of ContentsVorwort. Einleitung. Hauptteil. I) Die Materie-Definitionen, Phys. I 9 u. Metaph. VII 3.- Die «Elemente» und die «erste Materie». 1) Die Definitionen der Materie, Phys. I 9, Metaph. VII 3 u. VIII 1. 2) Der Bezug der Materie-Definitionen auf die Elemente, nach De caelo IV 1-3 und De gen. et corr. I-II. 3) Die Materie der Elemente selbst, De gen.et corr. II 1. 4) Stellungnahme zu Problemen moderner Interpretationen von Aristoteles' Materie-Auffassung. II) Über den Aufweis der Form-, Bewegungs- und Zweckursache, Phys. I 1-3 u. Metaphys. VII 17. 1) Die Zusammenstellung der vier Naturursachen, Phys. II 3. 2) Argumente in Phys.II 1 und Metaphys. VII 17 für die Formursache. 3) Über die Analogie mit der Kunst bei der Bestimmung der Naturursachen. III) Zur Definition der Bewegung und der Zeit, Phys. III. 1) Einleitende Bemerkungen zu Aristoteles' Definition der Bewegung. 2) Erörterungen zu Aristoteles' Lehre von der Zeit. IV) Zum ersten, unbewegten Beweger in Phys. VII-VIII. 1) Der erste, unbewegten Beweger in Phys. VII-VIII als verschieden von dem in Metaphys. XII 6-7. 2) Metaphysische Voraussetzungen der Physica. V) ZuAristoteles' Lehre über die Seele des Menschen in De anima. 1) Einführung in die Schrift Über die Seele. 2) Zu Aristoteles' Psychologie und seiner Definition der Seele als Form des Leibes. 3) Zu Aristoteles' Erkenntnislehre: Sinnes- und Vernunftvermögen. 4) Zur Interpretation von Aristoteles' Vernunft-Lehre in De anima III 4-5. VI) Die Finalität der Natur in Aristoteles' De gen. animalium. 1) Inhaltsanalysen. 2) Die Entwicklung des menschlichen Embryos. 3) Abschließende Erörterungen zur Bewegungs- und Zweckursache in De gen. animalium..

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