Metaphysics, Soul, and Ethics in Ancient Thought: Themes from the Work of Richard Sorabji

by Ricardo Salles

Overview

Leading figures in ancient philosophy present eighteen original papers on three key themes in the work of Richard Sorabji. The papers dealing with Metaphysics range from Democritus to Numenius on basic questions about the structure and nature of reality: necessitation, properties, and time. The section on Soul includes one paper on the individuation of souls in Plato and five papers on Aristotle's and Aristotelian theories of cognition, with a special emphasis on perception. The section devoted to Ethics concentrates upon Stoicism and the complex views the Stoics held on such topics as motivation, akrasia, oikeiôsis, and the emotions. The volume contains a fascinating "intellectual autobiography" by Sorabji himself, and a full Bibliography of his works.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199261307
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/14/2005
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.70(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Ricardo Salles is a Researcher, National Autonomoous University, Mexico.

Table of Contents

ForewordRichard Sorabji Bibliography1. Intellectual autobiography, Richard SorabjiMetaphysics2. Intrinsic and relational properties of Atoms in the Democritean ontology, Alexander P. D. Mourelatos3. Necessitation and Explanation in Philoponus' Aristotelain Physics, Sylvia Berryman4. A Contemporary Look at Aristotle's Changing Now, Sarah Broadie5. On the individuation of times and events in orthodox Stoicism, Ricardo Salles6. Stoic metaphysics at Rome, David Sedley7. Platonism in the Bible: Numenius of Apamea on Exodus and eternity, Myles BurnyeatThe Senses and the Nature of the Soul8. Platonic Souls as Persons, A. A. Long9. Aristotle versus Descartes on the concept of the mental, Charles H. Kahn10. Perception Naturalized in Aristotle's ide Anima/i, Robert Bolton11. The Spirit and the letter: Aristotle on perception, V. Caston12. The discriminating capacity of the soul in Aristotle's theory of learning, Frans A. J. de Haas13. Alexander of Aphrodisias on the nature and location of vision, Bob SharplesEthics14. Plato's Stoic View of Motivation, Gabriela Roxana Carone15. The Presence of Socrates and Aristotle in the Stoic Account of Akrasia, Marcelo D. Boeri16. Extend or identify: Two Stoic Accounts of Altruism, Mary Margaret McCabe17. Competing Readings of Stoic Emotions, Christopher Gill18. Were Zeno and Chysippus at odds in analysing emotion?, A. W. Price19. Seneca on Freedom and Autonomy, Brad Inwood