Uses and Abuses of the Classics: Western Interpretations of Greek Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780815398851 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 211 str.

Jiyuan Yu

Opis

Uses and Abuses of the Classics examines the various ways in which the different periods of the history of philosophy have approached these texts. The editors have chosen for analysis some of the major philosophers from periods of the history of philosophy in which the interpretation of the classics has been particularly significant.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Interpretation of the philosophical classics, Jorge J.E. Gracia; Plato on the Pre-Socratics, Livio Rossetti; Aristotle and the Pre-Socratics, Thomas M. Robinson; Neitzsche on the beginnings of western philosophy, Gareth B. Matthews; Aristotle's reading of Plato, Daniel W. Graham; Augustine and Platonism: the rejection of divided-soul accounts of Akrasia, Scott MacDonald; Heidegger's hermeneutic reading of Plato, Kah Kyung Cho; Maimonides on Aristotle: Judaism and science reconsidered, Tamar M. Rudavsky; Averroës on Aristotle, Alfred Ivry; Thomas Aquinas' commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics, John F. Wippel; MacIntyre's interpretation of Aristotle's ethics, Jiyuan Yu; Bibliography; Indexes.

O autorze

Jorge J. E. Gracia, Jiyuan Yu