Method and metaphysics : essays in ancient philosophy I /
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Author / Creator: | Barnes, Jonathan, 1942- |
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Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press : Oxford University Press, 2011. |
Description: | xi, 621 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English Ancient Greek |
Series: | Essays in ancient philosophy / Jonathan Barnes ; 1 Barnes, Jonathan, 1942- Essays in ancient philosophy ; 1. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8779187 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1. Ancient philosophers
- 2. The history of philosophy
- 3. Philosophy within quotation marks?
- 4. Anglophone attitudes
- 5. Brentano's Aristotle
- 6. Heidegger in the cave
- 7. 'There was an old person from Tyre'
- 8. The Presocratics in context
- 9. Argument in ancient philosophy
- 10. Philosophy and dialectic
- 11. Aristotle and the methods of ethics
- 12. Metacommentary
- 13. An introduction to Aspasius
- 14. Parmenides and the Eleatic One
- 15. Reason and necessity in Leucippus
- 16. Plato's cyclical argument
- 17. Death and the philosopher
- 18. Aristotelian arithmetic
- 19. The principle of plenitude
- 20. 'Aristotle's opinion concerning destiny and what is up to usÆ
- 21. 'Belief is up to us'
- 22. The same again: the Stoics and eternal recurrence
- 23. Bits and pieces
- 24. Partial wholes
- 25. 'Drei Sonnen sah ich...': Syrianus and astronomy
- 26. Immaterial causes
- Bibliography
- Index of Passages
- General Index