Definition in Greek Philosophy

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-870455-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 568 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 851 g

Socrates' greatest philosophical contribution was to have initiated the search for definitions. In Definition in Greek Philosophy his views on definition are examined, together with those of his successors, including Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Galen, the Sceptics and Plotinus. Although definition was a major pre-occupation for many Greek philosophers, it has rarely been treated as a separate topic in its own right in recent years. This volume, which contains fourteen new essays by leading scholars, aims to reawaken interest in a number of central and relatively unexplored issues concerning definition. These issues are briefly set out in the Introduction, which also seeks to point out scholarly and philosophical questions which merit further study.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Charles, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Part A: Plato on definition

- 1: Lindsay Judson: Carried Away in the Euthyphro

- 2: Vasilis Politis: Explanation and Essence in Plato's Phaedo

- 3: David Charles: The Paradox in the Meno and Aristotle's Attempts to Resolve it

- 4: Lesley Brown: Division and Definition in the Sophist

- 5: Mary Louise Gill: Division and Definition in Plato's Sophist and Statesman

- Part B: Aristotle on Definition

- 6: Kei Chiba: Aristotle on Essence and Defining Phrase in his Dialectic

- 7: Deborah Modrak: Nominal Definition in Aristotle, his successors and his predecessors

- 8: David Charles: Definition and Explanation in the Posterior Analytics (and beyond)

- 9: James Lennox: Bios and Explanatory Unity in Aristotle's Biology

- Part C: Post-Aristotelian writers on definition

- 10: Paolo Crivelli: The Stoics on Definition

- 11: Richard Sorabji: The Aristotelian Commentators on Definition

- 12: Jane Hood: Galen's Aristotelian definitions

- 13: Annamaria Schiaparelli: Definition and Explanation in Plotinus: Some Problems

- 14: Gail Fine: Sceptical enquiry

Über Autor(innen)

David Charles has been a Fellow in Philosophy at Oriel College, University of Oxford, from 1978 and a Research Professor since 2006. He has held Visiting Professorships at Rutgers, U.C.L.A., Tokyo Metropolitan, and Venice Universities and has written on various aspects of Aristotle's philosophy and on issues in contemporary action theory and metaphysics.