New Essays on Plato and Aristotle (RLE: Plato)

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-415-62731-3
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 420 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Plato

What can the study of the history of ancient philosophy bring to the study of contemporary philosophical problems and questions? In New Essays on Plato and Aristotle eight distinguished philosophers address topics in Greek philosophy that are connected with current philosophical issues. All the essays are original and include Gilbert Ryle on Dialectic in the Academy and R. M. Hare on Plato’s indictment of mathematicians.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bambrough, Renford

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 1. Degrees of Reality in Plato 2. Plato and the Mathematicians 3. Dialectic in the Academy 4. Aristotle on the Snares of Ontology 5. Aristotle’s Conception of Substance 6. Aristotle’s Distinction between Energeia and Kinesis 7. Thought and Action in Aristotle 8. Aristotle on Justice: a Paradigm of Philosophy. Index.