Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical

Aristotle believed that the outermost stars are carried round us on a transparent sphere. There are directions in the universe and a preferred direction of rotation. The sun, moon and planets are carried on different revolving spheres. The spheres and celestial bodies are composed of an everlasting fifth element, which has none of the ordinary contrary properties like heat and cold which could destroy it, but only the facility for uniform rotation. But this creates problems as to how the heavenly bodies create light, and, in the case of the sun, heat. The topics covered in this part of...

Aristotle's Posterior Analytics elaborates for the first time in the history of Western philosophy the notions of science and the requirements for the distinctive kind of knowledge scientists possess. His model is mathematics and his treatment of science amounts to a philosophical discussion, from the perspective of Aristotelian syllogistic, of mathematical proofs and the principles they are based on. Chapters 1-8 expound the foundations of Aristotle's theory, pointing out the similarities and differences between scientific knowledge and other types of knowledge, establishing the...

Aristotle's Meteorology influenced generations of speculation about the earth sciences, ranging from atmospheric phenomena to earthquakes. The commentary of John Philoponus (6th century AD) on the opening three chapters of Meteorology is here translated for the first time into English by Dr Inna Kupreeva, building on the work of L.G. Westerink. Philoponus, who today is increasingly respected as a philosopher in his own right, here engages critically with Aristotle's views about the building-blocks of our world, its size and relationship to other heavenly bodies, and reception...

Aristotle's Topics is about dialectic, which can be understood as a debate between two people or the inner debate of one thinker with himself. Its purposes range from philosophical training to discovering the first principles of thought. Its arguments concern the four predicables (definition, property, genus and accident). Aristotle explains how these four fit into his ten categories, and in Book 1 begins to outline strategies for debate, such as the definition of ambiguity. Alexander's commentary on Book 1 discusses how to define Aristotelian syllogistic argument, why it stands up...

Lukrez: Uber die Natur der Dinge

Lesefreundlicher Grossdruck in 16-pt-Schrift

Edition Holzinger. Grossformat, 216 x 279 mm

Berliner Ausgabe, 2015

Vollstandiger, durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger

Entstanden vor 55 v. Chr. Das wahrscheinlich unvollendet gebliebene Werk wurde als Handschrift von Cicero herausgegeben. Erstdruck: Brescia o. J. (ca. 1473). Erste deutsche Ubersetzung durch Franz Xaver Mayr unter dem Titel Von der Natur der Dinge, Wien 1784/85. Der Text folgt der Ubertragung durch Hermann Diels, die 1924 (postum) von Johannes...

DieSchriftDe interpretatione wird in der vorliegenden Ausgabe mit dem Ziel neu ediert, einen der 1949 erschienenen Oxford-Ausgabe gegenuber verbesserten Text zur Verfugung zu stellen. Als Textzeugen wurden die sieben altesten uns erhalten gebliebenen mittelalterlichen Handschriften sowie mehrere spatantike Ubersetzungen undKommentare ausgewertet. Auskunft uber die Lesarten gibt ein textkritischer Apparat.

When Philip Sidney defends poetry by defending the methods used by poets and lawyers alike, he relies on the traditional association between fiction and legal procedure--an association that begins with Aristotle. In this study Kathy Eden offers a new understanding of this tradition, from its origins in Aristotle's Poetics and De Anima, through its development in the psychological and rhetorical theory of late antiquity and the Middle Ages, to its culmination in the literary theory of the Renaissance.

Originally published in 1986.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the...

In der neueren Forschung gehoren die Substanzbucher der Metaphysik zu den meistdiskutierten Aristotelischen Texten. Die vorliegende, uberarbeitete und aktualisierte Neuauflage des bereits zum Standardwerk der Aristoteles-Forschung zahlenden Bandes bildet die umfangreiche Diskussion in Form textnaher Kommentare ab und erschliesst das komplexe Kernstuck der Metaphysikfur Studierende, Forscher und ein breites akademisches Publikum.

Typically, the first decade of Friedrich Nietzsche's career is considered a sort of precis to his mature thinking. Yet his philological articles, lectures, and notebooks on Ancient Greek culture and thought - much of which has received insufficient scholarly attention - were never intended to serve as a preparatory ground to future thought. Nietzsche's early scholarship was intended to express his insights into the character of antiquity. Many of those insights are not only important for better understanding Nietzsche; they remain vital for understanding antiquity today....