Theophrastus On First Principles Known As His Metaphysics

Author : Dimitri Gutas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 532 pages
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Release : 2010-03-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004189836

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Theophrastus On First Principles (known as his Metaphysics) by Dimitri Gutas Pdf

Simultaneous critical editions based on all available evidence, with an introduction, English translations, and commentaries of the Greek text and a medieval Arabic translation of Theophrastus’s On First Principles (“metaphysics”), together with a methodological excursus on Graeco-Arabic editorial technique and normative glossary.

Author : Théophraste,Bartolomeo da Messina
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 532 pages
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Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004179035

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Theophrastus On First Principles by Théophraste,Bartolomeo da Messina Pdf

Simultaneous critical editions based on all available evidence, with an introduction, English translations, and commentaries of the Greek text and a medieval Arabic translation of Theophrastus s "On First Principles" ( metaphysics ), together with a methodological excursus on Graeco-Arabic editorial technique and normative glossary.

Author : Borden Parker Bowne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
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Release : 1882
Category : Metaphysics
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6R9X

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Metaphysics: a Study in First Principles by Borden Parker Bowne Pdf

Author : William W. Fortenbaugh,Dimitri Gutas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 312 pages
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Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004268760

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Theophrastus of Eresus, Commentary Volume 9.2 by William W. Fortenbaugh,Dimitri Gutas Pdf

This volume concerns Theophrastus, Aristotle's pupil and successor as head of the Peripatetic School. The focus is twofold. First, it deals with discoveries and inventions, both useful and pleasurable, and more generally changes that transformed the way people live. Theophrastus wrote a work entitled On Discoveries, which may be regarded as cultural history. Second, the volume focuses on proverbs: familiar sayings containing useful truths that have been observed by earlier generations and passed on in a form that is concise and attractive. Theophrastus wrote a work entitled On Proverbs and made use of proverbs in his writings on ethics, rhetoric and humor. He recognized their importance in educating the young and maintaining the traditions of an earlier age.

Author : Aafke M. I. van Oppenraaij,Resianne Fontaine
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 542 pages
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Release : 2012-11-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004234147

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The Letter Before the Spirit: The Importance of Text Editions for the Study of the Reception of Aristotle by Aafke M. I. van Oppenraaij,Resianne Fontaine Pdf

This text underlines the importance for scholars to have at their disposal reliable scientific text editions of Aristotle's works in the Semitico-Latin, and the Graeco-Latin, translation and commentary traditions.

Author : Andreas Lammer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110546798

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The Elements of Avicenna's Physics by Andreas Lammer Pdf

This study is the first comprehensive analysis of the physical theory of the Islamic philosopher Avicenna (d. 1037). It seeks to understand his contribution against the developments within the preceding Greek and Arabic intellectual milieus, and to appreciate his philosophy as such by emphasising his independence as a critical and systematic thinker. Exploring Avicenna’s method of "teaching and learning," it investigates the implications of his account of the natural body as a three-dimensionally extended composite of matter and form, and examines his views on nature as a principle of motion and his analysis of its relation to soul. Moreover, it demonstrates how Avicenna defends the Aristotelian conception of place against the strident criticism of his predecessors, among other things, by disproving the existence of void and space. Finally, it sheds new light on Avicenna’s account of the essence and the existence of time. For the first time taking into account the entire range of Avicenna’s major writings, this study fills a gap in our understanding both of the history of natural philosophy in general and of the philosophy of Avicenna in particular.

Author : Alberto Bertozzi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 454 pages
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Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004441026

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Plotinus on Love: An Introduction to His Metaphysics through the Concept of Eros by Alberto Bertozzi Pdf

In Plotinus on Love, Alberto Bertozzi argues that love is the origin, culmination, and regulative force of the double movement that characterizes Plotinus' metaphysics: the derivation of all reality from the One and the return of the soul to it.

Author : Hans Daiber
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 727 pages
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Release : 2021-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004441774

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From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond by Hans Daiber Pdf

From 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.

Author : Brad Inwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191649943

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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 42 by Brad Inwood Pdf

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback. 'The serial Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (OSAP) is fairly regarded as the leading venue for publication in ancient philosophy. It is where one looks to find the state-of-the-art. That the serial, which presents itself more as an anthology than as a journal, has traditionally allowed space for lengthier studies, has tended only to add to its prestige; it is as if OSAP thus declares that, since it allows as much space as the merits of the subject require, it can be more entirely devoted to the best and most serious scholarship.' Michael Pakaluk, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Author : Gerardo Botteri,Roberto Casazza
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004525535

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The Astronomical System of Aristotle by Gerardo Botteri,Roberto Casazza Pdf

This book explains Aristotelian astronomy, in connection with his cosmology, physics, and metaphysics. A friendly book, in which the reader celebrates the magnificent explanatory graphics. A book matured, coherent, creative, and intense, both profitable by students and scholars.

Author : Emilie Savage-Smith,Simon Swain,Geert Jan van Gelder
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004545564

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A Literary History of Medicine by Emilie Savage-Smith,Simon Swain,Geert Jan van Gelder Pdf

An online, Open Access version of this work is also available from Brill. A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the author’s contemporaries, describing their training and practice, often as court physicians, and listing their medical works; all this interlaced with poems and anecdotes. These volumes present the first complete and annotated translation along with a new edition of the Arabic text showing the stages in which the author composed the work. Introductory essays provide important background. The reader will find on these pages an Islamic society that worked closely with Christians and Jews, deeply committed to advancing knowledge and applying it to health and wellbeing.

Author : Yoav Meyrav
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350127258

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Themistius: On Aristotle Metaphysics 12 by Yoav Meyrav Pdf

This is the only commentary on Aristotle's theological work, Metaphysics, Book 12, to survive from the first six centuries CE – the heyday of ancient Greek commentary on Aristotle. Though the Greek text itself is lost, a full English translation is presented here for the first time, based on Arabic versions of the Greek and a Hebrew version of the Arabic. In his commentary Themistius offers an extensive re-working of Aristotle, confirming that the first principle of the universe is indeed Aristotle's God as intellect, not the intelligibles thought by God. The identity of intellect with intelligibles had been omitted by Aristotle in Metaphysics 12, but is suggested in his Physics 3.3 and On the Soul 3, and later by Plotinus. Laid out here in an accessible translation and accompanied by extensive commentary notes, introduction and indexes, the work will be of interest for students and scholars of Neoplatonist philosophy, ancient metaphysics, and textual transmission.

Author : Martin Worthington
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781614510567

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Principles of Akkadian Textual Criticism by Martin Worthington Pdf

Errors of many kinds abound in Akkadian writings, but this fact’s far-reaching implications have never been unraveled and systematized. To attempt this is the aim of this book. Drawing on scholarship from other fields, it outlines a framework for the critical evaluation of extant text and the formulation of conjectural emendations. Along the way, it explores issues at the interface of orthography, textual transmission, scribal education, grammar, literacy, and literary interpretation.

Author : Yoav Meyrav
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004400443

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Themistius’ Paraphrase of Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12 by Yoav Meyrav Pdf

In Themistius’ Paraphrase of Aristotle’s Metaphysics 12, Yoav Meyrav offers a new critical edition and study of the Hebrew text and the Arabic fragments of Themistius’ 4th century paraphrase, whose original Greek is lost.

Author : Abraham Jacob Greenstine
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Metaphysics
ISBN : 9781474431194

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Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics by Abraham Jacob Greenstine Pdf

Like the ancient inquiries into the nature of things, contemporary continental realism and materialism, from Deleuze to the Speculative Realists, embraces a commitment to investigate beings, without subordinating it to analyses of language, consciousness, texts or the social. This pensée brute, traditionally known as metaphysics, dares to question the one and the many, the potential and the actual, the material and immaterial and the world itself. This apparent kinship is not merely thematic, since contemporary thinkers explicitly and repeatedly return to the texts and figures of the Greco-Roman world. In this volume, leading philosophers address these varied, volatile, and novel interactions and themselves contribute to reconceiving and redeploying the problems of ancient metaphysics. Alongside this are 2 original and previously unpublished translations of essays by Gilles Deleuze and Pierre Aubenque.