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The problem of the one and the many is central to ancient Greek philosophy, but surprisingly little attention has been paid to Aristotle's treatment of it in the Metaphysics. This omission is all th……続きを見る

Ennead I.6 is probably the best known and most influential treatise of Plotinus, especially for Renaissance artists and thinkers. Although the title may suggest a work on aesthetics and thus of limi……続きを見る

Parmenides of Elea was the most important and influential philosopher before Plato. He rejected as impossible the scientific inquiry practiced by the earlier Presocratic philosophers and held that g……続きを見る

For Plotinus, the nature and status of the human soul is one of the central problems of philosophy. Ennead IV.3-4.29 constitutes his most penetrating enquiry into this topic, addressing the issues o……続きを見る

The Sophist sets out to explain what the sophist does by defining his art. But the sophist has no art. Plato lays out a challenging puzzle in metaphysics, the nature of philosophy, and the limitatio……続きを見る

Platonists beginning in the Old Academy itself and up to and including Plotinus struggled to understand and articulate the relation between Plato's Demiurge and the Living Animal which served as the……続きを見る

Plotinus was much exercised by Plato's doctrines of the soul. In this treatise, at chapter 1 line 27, he talks of "e;the divine Plato, who has said in many places in his works many noble things ……続きを見る

Platonic Patterns is a reprint collection of many of Holger Thesleff's studies in Plato-spanning from 1967 to 2003. It includes three books, four articles and a new introduction by the author, which……続きを見る

Fascinating illustrations contribute to this illuminating and award-winning account of how and why philosophy emerged and make it a must-read for any inquisitive thinker unsatisfied with prevailing ……続きを見る

This book is a collection of dovetailing essays which together interpret and assess the chief arguments and texts which make up Plato's cosmology. Arguments in the Timaeus, Sophist, Statesman, Phile……続きを見る

Ennead IV.4.30-45 and IV.5 retrieves the unity in this last section of Plotinus' treatise on Problems concerning the Soul. Combining translation with commentary, Gurtler enhances both the accuracy o……続きを見る

In this first volume of One and Many, Halper argues that books Alpha to Delta should be read as a coherent treatment, within the larger whole of the Metaphysics, which addresses the problem of how t……続きを見る

This book is the scholarly & fully annotated edition of the award-winning The Illustrated To Think Like God. To Think Like God focuses on the emergence of philosophy as a speculative science, tracin……続きを見る

Parmenides and the History of Dialectic is a study of Greek philosophical method as it affects contemporary philosophical issues. What was distinctive about the method of Parmenides, the inventor of……続きを見る

Prior to the publication of Plato's Later Ontology in 1983, there was general agreement among Plato scholars that the theses attributed to Plato in Book A of Aristotle's Metaphysics can not be found……続きを見る

A distinguished Platonic scholar discusses the impact of the Greek discovery of the "e;cosmos"e; on man's perception of his place in the universe, describes the problems this posed, and inte……続きを見る

Plotinus' Treatise V.1 comes closer than any other to providing an outline of his entire spiritual and metaphysical system, and as such it may serve to some degree as an introduction to his philosop……続きを見る

Plato's Parmenides presents the modern reader with a puzzle. Noted for being the most difficult of Platonic dialogues, it is also one of the most influential. This new edition of the work includes t……続きを見る

In By Being, It Is, Nestor-Luis Cordero explores the richness of this Parmenidean thesis, which became the cornerstone of philosophy. Cordero''s textual analysis of the poem''s fragments reveals tha……続きを見る

Epicurus, and his Roman disciple Lucretius, held that the primary cause of human unhappiness was an irrational fear of death. What is more, they believed that a clear understanding of the nature of ……続きを見る

In the Statesman, Plato brings together--only to challenge and displace--his own crowning contributions to philosophical method, political theory, and drama. In his 1980 study, reprinted here, Mitch……続きを見る

The term dunamis (potentiality) entered into the philosophical vocabulary with Plato, but it was with Aristotle that it acquired, together with energeia (actuality), the strong technical meaning tha……続きを見る

Originally published in 1967. Ludwig Edelstein characterizes the idea of "progress" in Greek and Roman times. He analyzes the ancients' belief in "a tendency inherent in nature or in man to pass thr……続きを見る

Lao Tsé no fundó ninguna escuela. No sintió el deseo ni la necesidad de hacerlo, porque no tenía la intención de difundir una doctrina. Vislumbró las grandes conexiones universales, y vertió dificul……続きを見る

The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese classic text traditionally credited to the 6th-century BC sage Lao-Tzu. The text's authorship, date of composition and date of compilation are debated. The oldest excav……続きを見る

Дао дэ цзин ー основополагающий источник учения и один из выдающихся памятников китайской мысли, оказавший большое влияние на культуру Китая и всего мира. Основная идея этого произведения ー понятие……続きを見る

Our current scientific achievements in understanding the working of the mind are commendable. However, in it’s over insistence on objectivity science seems to have overlooked some important dimensio……続きを見る

Extrait : "L'AMI DE SOCRATE : D'où viens-tu, Socrate ? sans doute de la chasse, de la chasse à la beauté d'Alcibiade , A dire vrai, je l'ai vu il n'y a pas longtemps, et je trouve que c'est toujours……続きを見る

Partez à la découverte de Confucius et du confucianisme avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Deux millénaires et demi durant, ou peu s'en faut, la pensée, la fable et l'influence de Kongzi, notre Con……続きを見る

How ancient thinkers grappled with competing conceptions of divine law In the thousand years before the rise of Islam, two radically diverse conceptions of what it means to say that a law is divine ……続きを見る