Aristotle

In this excellent introduction, Christopher Shields introduces and assesses the whole of Aristotle's philosophy, showing how his powerful conception of human nature shaped much of his thinking on the nature of the soul and the mind, ethics, politics and the arts. Beginning with a ...

Presocratics

The earliest phase of philosophy in Europe saw the beginnings of cosmology and rational theology, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethical and political theory. It saw the development of wide range of radical and challenging ideas: from Thales' claim that magnets have souls and Parmenides' account that ...

Remastering morals with Aristotle and Confucius

Aristotle and Confucius are pivotal figures in world history; nevertheless, Western and Eastern cultures have in modern times largely abandoned the insights of these masters. Remastering Morals is the first book-length scholarly comparison of the ethics of Aristotle and Confucius. May Sim's comparisons offer ...

Stoic ethics

Epictetus and happiness as freedom

Shortly after Aristotle's death, ancient philosophy shifted away from abstract technical issues and focused on the more practical moral question of how to be happy. While many schools of thought arose on the subject, Stoicism and Epicureanism dominated the philosophical landscape for nearly 500 ...

La aporía en Aristóteles

los libros B y K 1-2 de la Metafísica

#La influencia aristotélica se hace sentir hoy desde muy diversos registros, en pensamientos como los de M. Heidegger, H-G. Gadamer, H. Arendt y H. Jonas, entre otros, llegando hasta el Debolismo de Gianni Vattimo. Por ello es determinante para entender la rehabilitación de la racionalidad ...

China

historia del pensamiento

La HISTORIA DEL PENSAMIENTO de JESÚS MOSTERÍN está integrada por libros monográficos autónomos, que se caracterizan por la frescura de la mirada, el enfoque interdisciplinar, la relevancia actual, la lucidez del análisis y la claridad de la exposición. En su conjunto, la serie ofrece una ...

El pensamiento de Platón

Trazar el curso del desarrollo platónico, mediante el hilo conductor antropológico, es el objetivo del presente estudio. El pensamiento de Platón es también una invitación a la filosofía pues, como dice el autor: "En tiempos de penuria filosófica, volver a Platón es como volver no ...

Pensamientos

En sus Pensamientos, reflexión de máximas y de reflexiones escrita en griego al final de su vida, Marco Aurelio aparece como un adepto al estoicismo, cuya ética desarrollo.

Los nombres divinos

Las obras de Dionisio, de evidente transfondo platónico, fueron escritas aproximadamente a finales del siglo V de nuestra era y se las relaciona con Platón, Proclo y Damascio; su autoría es atribuida a alguien que confusamente se dice discípulo de San Pablo, a pesar del ...

The philosophy of Epictetus

The Stoic philosopher Epictetus has been one of the most influential of ancient thinkers, both in antiquity itself and in modern times. Theodore Scaltsas and Andrew S. Mason present ten specially written papers which discuss Epictetus' thought on a wide range of subjects, including ethics ...

El saber del error

filosofía y tragedia en Sófocles

En buena medida, la tradición filosófica occidental ha consistido en una reflexión sobre temas trágicos y, muchas veces, sobre la naturaleza misma de lo trágico. De ahí que quizás no quepa ya recuperar una mirada ingenua sobre la tragedia, una mirada ajena a toda filosofía ...

Basic concepts of Ancient Philosophy

"Basic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy" presents a lecture course given by Martin Heidegger in 1926 at the University of Marburg. First published in German as volume 22 of the "Collected Works", the book provides Heidegger's most systematic history of Ancient philosophy beginning with Thales ...

Creationism and its critics in Antiquity

The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? This book examines this question and offers fresh historical perspectives on the pantheon of ...

Los presocráticos

La lutte pour l'orthodoxie dans le platonisme tardif

de Numénius à Damascius

Au IIe siècle de notre ère, un courant spirituel qui se réclame de Platon commence son ascension vertigineuse dans l#Empire romain. Dissociant leur fondateur divinisé de sa descendance sceptique et le rattachant à Pythagore, les adeptes de Platon voient dans sa philosophie une voie ...

Zenón de Elea

lecciones 1964-1965

Con una espléndida traducción de Miguel Morey, Zenón de Elea, el conjunto de lecciones dictadas por Giorgio Colli entre 1964 y 1965 en la Universidad de Pisa, nos muestra el trasfondo de las famosas aporías zenonianas, desvelando el verdadero origen de la filosofía: la tendencia ...

Plato and Aristotle in agreement?

platonists on Aristotle from antiochus to porphyry

An exciting new perspective on later ancient philosophy Argues against prevailing wisdom about the Platonists' opinion of Aristotle Karamanolis is one of the world's brightest young stars in this field George Karamanolis breaks new ground in the study of later ancient philosophy by examining ...

Space, time, matter, and form

essays on Aristotle's physics

The first five papers look at issues raised in the first two books of the Physics, centred on notions of matter and form, and the idea of substance as what persists through change. They also range over other of Aristotle's scientific works, such as ...

The structured self in hellenistic and roman thought

Christopher Gill offers a new analysis of what is innovative in Hellenistic - especially Stoic and Epicurean - philosophical thinking about selfhood and personality. His wide-ranging discussion of Stoic and Epicurean ideas is illustrated by a more detailed examination of the Stoic theory of the passions and ...

A companion to Plato

Plato and Platonism remain fundamental to the practice of philosophy. This broad-ranging Companion comprises original contributions from some of the best Platonic scholars in the world today and reflects the various ways in which they are dealing with Plato's legacy. The Companion is ordered ...