Author : Ricardo Salles
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191555619
Metaphysics, Soul, and Ethics in Ancient Thought by Ricardo Salles Pdf
Leading figures in ancient philosophy present eighteen original papers on three key themes in the work of Richard Sorabji. The papers dealing with Metaphysics range from Democritus to Numenius on basic questions about the structure and nature of reality: necessitation, properties, and time. The section on Soul includes one paper on the individuation of souls in Plato and five papers on Aristotle's and Aristotelian theories of cognition, with a special emphasis on perception. The section devoted to Ethics concentrates upon Stoicism and the complex views the Stoics held on such topics as motivation, akrasia, oikeiôsis, and the emotions. The volume also contains a fascinating 'intellectual autobiography' by Sorabji himself, and a full Bibliography of his works.