New Essays on Plato and Aristotle (RLE: Plato)

by Renford Bambrough (Editor)

Overview

What can the study of the history of ancient philosophy bring to the study of contemporary philosophical problems and questions? In New Essays on Plato and Aristotle eight distinguished philosophers address topics in Greek philosophy that are connected with current philosophical issues. All the essays are original and include Gilbert Ryle on Dialectic in the Academy and R. M. Hare on Plato’s indictment of mathematicians.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415627313
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/10/2012
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Plato
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	186
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Degrees of Reality in Plato 2. Plato and the Mathematicians 3. Dialectic in the Academy 4. Aristotle on the Snares of Ontology 5. Aristotle’s Conception of Substance 6. Aristotle’s Distinction between Energeia and Kinesis 7. Thought and Action in Aristotle 8. Aristotle on Justice: a Paradigm of Philosophy. Index.

Editorial Reviews

‘Here is a brilliant set of essays which breaks new ground in Platonic and Aristotelian interpretation’ The Times Literary Supplement

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