The Sea Battle and the Master Argument

ISBN-13: 9783110144307 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 418 str.

Gaskin, Richard

Opis

The series, founded in 1970, publishes works which either combine studies in the history of philosophy with a systematic approach or bring together systematic studies with reconstructions from the history of philosophy. Monographs are published in English as well as in German. The founding editors are Erhard Scheibe (editor until 1991), Gunther Patzig (until 1999) and Wolfgang Wieland (until 2003). From 1990 to 2007, the series had been co-edited by Jurgen Mittelstrass. "

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Critical essays on Aristotle and the Megarian logician Diodorus Cronus (approx. 300 B.C.) on the problem of contingency and future truth.
Summary of contents:
The Fatalist's Arguments - Aristotle's Response - The Principle of Plenitude - From Truth to Necessity - Simple and Hypothetical Necessity - Aristotle and the Early Commentators - Methaphysics E.3 on Causal Determinism: a Comparison - Reconstructing the Master Argument of Diodorus Cronus - Some Historical Reconstructions - The Proposed Reconstruction - Diodorus and Cicero - Diodorus and Aristotle