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Leo Tolstoy and Platonic Inspiration
Inbunden, 2026
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Leo Tolstoy had a deep and long-lasting interest in Plato. This study looks at the way some particularly well-known Platonic themes can be found in War and Peace and Anna Karenina. The themes in question include the journey between the mundane and the eternal (most famously represented in the …
Suspension of Belief
Häftad, 2024
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This Element offers a systematic outline of ancient conceptions and uses of suspension of belief (understood broadly) while engaging with contemporary philosophy. It discusses the notion of epochē ('suspension of judgement') and other related terms, like aporia, aphasia, paradox, hypothesis, …
Stoic Eros
Av Simon Shogry
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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The Stoics distinguish two forms of eros. In vicious agents eros is indeed a passion and thus born out of a defective rational judgment about what is needed for happiness. But there is also a positive form of erotic love, practiced by the Sage on the basis of knowledge, which aims to reproduce his …
Properties in Ancient Metaphysics
Häftad, 2023
347 kr
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This Element provides an overview of how the ancient thinkers (Anaxagoras, Plato and Aristotle) theorised about properties; such overview puts in relief the inquiries, problems and solutions they were pursuing while engaged in dialogue with each other. It examines alternative philosophical …
The Hedonism of Eudoxus of Cnidus
Häftad, 2023
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Mathematician and astronomer Eudoxus of Cnidus was a younger contemporary of Plato and an older contemporary of Aristotle, on both of whom he exerted some influence during his stays in Athens. This is perhaps most apparent with regard to his ethical doctrine that identifies the good as pleasure …
Aristotle's Theory of Justice in Exchange
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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This Element provides a systematic analysis of Aristotle's theory of justice in exchange as developed in Nicomachean Ethics Book V. It examines Aristotle's distinction between voluntary exchanges (commutative justice) and involuntary transactions (corrective justice), explaining how proportional …
Contemplation and Civic Happiness in Plato and Aristotle
Häftad, 2024
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This Element concerns the civic value of contemplation in Plato and Aristotle: how does intellectual contemplation contribute to the happiness of the ideal state? The texts discussed include the Republic, the Nicomachean Ethics and the Politics, works in which contemplation is viewed from a …
Aristotelian Ontological Priority and Metaphysical Grounding
Häftad, 2026
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Many think that reality is structured such that some beings are more fundamental than others and characterize this structure in terms of 'grounding.' Grounding is typically regarded as explanatory and as exhibiting certain order-theoretic properties: asymmetry, irreflexivity, and transitivity. …
The Hedonism of Eudoxus of Cnidus
Inbunden, 2023
892 kr
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Mathematician and astronomer Eudoxus of Cnidus was a younger contemporary of Plato and an older contemporary of Aristotle, on both of whom he exerted some influence during his stays in Athens. This is perhaps most apparent with regard to his ethical doctrine that identifies the good as pleasure …
Vice in Ancient Philosophy
Plato and Aristotle on Moral Ignorance and Corruption of Character
Inbunden, 2024
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Ancient philosophers offer intriguing accounts of vice - virtue's bad twin. This Element considers injustice and lawlessness in Plato and Aristotle. Starting with Socrates' paradoxical claim that 'tyrants and orators do just about nothing they want to do' (Gorgias 466d-e), it examines discussions …
Properties in Ancient Metaphysics
Inbunden, 2023
1048 kr
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This Element provides an overview of how the ancient thinkers (Anaxagoras, Plato and Aristotle) theorised about properties; such overview puts in relief the inquiries, problems and solutions they were pursuing while engaged in dialogue with each other. It examines alternative philosophical …
Suspension of Belief
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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This Element offers a systematic outline of ancient conceptions and uses of suspension of belief (understood broadly) while engaging with contemporary philosophy. It discusses the notion of epochē ('suspension of judgement') and other related terms, like aporia, aphasia, paradox, hypothesis, …
Stoic Eros
Av Simon Shogry
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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The Stoics distinguish two forms of eros. In vicious agents eros is indeed a passion and thus born out of a defective rational judgment about what is needed for happiness. But there is also a positive form of erotic love, practiced by the Sage on the basis of knowledge, which aims to reproduce his …
Plato's Unwritten Doctrines
Inbunden, 2025
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This Element examines the arguments advanced by the Tübingen-Milan School in support of the claim that Plato had Unwritten Doctrines (agrapha dogmata), revealed in Aristotle and other testimonia and indicated - but not explicitly treated - in some of his dialogues. The Unwritten Doctrines are …
Plato's Unwritten Doctrines
Häftad, 2025
282 kr
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This Element examines the arguments advanced by the Tübingen-Milan School in support of the claim that Plato had Unwritten Doctrines (agrapha dogmata), revealed in Aristotle and other testimonia and indicated - but not explicitly treated - in some of his dialogues. The Unwritten Doctrines are …
Aristotle's Theory of Justice in Exchange
Inbunden, 2026
903 kr
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This Element provides a systematic analysis of Aristotle's theory of justice in exchange as developed in Nicomachean Ethics Book V. It examines Aristotle's distinction between voluntary exchanges (commutative justice) and involuntary transactions (corrective justice), explaining how proportional …
Contemplation and Civic Happiness in Plato and Aristotle
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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This Element concerns the civic value of contemplation in Plato and Aristotle: how does intellectual contemplation contribute to the happiness of the ideal state? The texts discussed include the Republic, the Nicomachean Ethics and the Politics, works in which contemplation is viewed from a …
Aristotelian Ontological Priority and Metaphysical Grounding
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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Many think that reality is structured such that some beings are more fundamental than others and characterize this structure in terms of 'grounding.' Grounding is typically regarded as explanatory and as exhibiting certain order-theoretic properties: asymmetry, irreflexivity, and transitivity. …
Leo Tolstoy and Platonic Inspiration
Häftad, 2026
308 kr
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Leo Tolstoy had a deep and long-lasting interest in Plato. This study looks at the way some particularly well-known Platonic themes can be found in War and Peace and Anna Karenina. The themes in question include the journey between the mundane and the eternal (most famously represented in the …
Theophrastus on First Principles
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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Theophrastus' so-called Metaphysics presents a series of difficulties for various accounts of first principles, including Platonist ones but also - and especially - Aristotle's. Hence, many scholars think that Theophrastus abandons some of his teacher's core commitments, such as the prime mover or …
Theophrastus on First Principles
Inbunden, 2026
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Theophrastus' so-called Metaphysics presents a series of difficulties for various accounts of first principles, including Platonist ones but also - and especially - Aristotle's. Hence, many scholars think that Theophrastus abandons some of his teacher's core commitments, such as the prime mover or …
Plato's Medicinal Politics and Its Hippocratic Entwinement
Illness, Paideia, and the Decline of an Ideal City
Av Wenjin Liu
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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This Element argues that Plato's medical language in political contexts is not mere metaphor but a medical model of political analysis. Centering on the Republic, it shows how Plato adopts, critiques, and reworks Hippocratic ideas to diagnose, explain, evaluate, and treat political conditions. The …
Plato's Medicinal Politics and Its Hippocratic Entwinement
Illness, Paideia, and the Decline of an Ideal City
Av Wenjin Liu
Inbunden, 2026
903 kr
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This Element argues that Plato's medical language in political contexts is not mere metaphor but a medical model of political analysis. Centering on the Republic, it shows how Plato adopts, critiques, and reworks Hippocratic ideas to diagnose, explain, evaluate, and treat political conditions. The …
Aristippus of Cyrene, Pleasure and the Present
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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This Element offers a new historical account of Aristippus the Elder's views on pleasure and the present. Instead of treating Aristippus as merely proto-Cyrenaic or anachronistically modern, it uncovers in the ancient sources a neglected form of hedonism that endorses a present-focused therapeutic …
Aristippus of Cyrene, Pleasure and the Present
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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This Element offers a new historical account of Aristippus the Elder's views on pleasure and the present. Instead of treating Aristippus as merely proto-Cyrenaic or anachronistically modern, it uncovers in the ancient sources a neglected form of hedonism that endorses a present-focused therapeutic …
Relative Change
Häftad, 2020
308 kr
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A relative change occurs when some item changes a relation. This Element examines how Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Sextus Empiricus approached relative change. Relative change is puzzling because the following three propositions each seem true but cannot be true together: (1) No relative changes …
Vice in Ancient Philosophy
Plato and Aristotle on Moral Ignorance and Corruption of Character
Häftad, 2024
354 kr
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Ancient philosophers offer intriguing accounts of vice - virtue's bad twin. This Element considers injustice and lawlessness in Plato and Aristotle. Starting with Socrates' paradoxical claim that 'tyrants and orators do just about nothing they want to do' (Gorgias 466d-e), it examines discussions …
Plato's Ion
Poetry, Expertise, and Inspiration
Häftad, 2020
308 kr
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This Element defends an interpretation of Plato's Ion on which its primary concern is with audience reception of poetry. The dialogue countenances and rejects two models of poetic reception, the expertise model and the inspiration model, both of which make the audience entirely passive in relation …
Aristotle on Women
Physiology, Psychology, and Politics
Häftad, 2021
308 kr
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This Element provides an account of Aristotle on women which combines what is found in his scientific biology with his practical philosophy. Scholars have often debated how these two fields are related. The current study shows that according to Aristotelian biology, women are set up for …
Aristotle on Ontological Priority in the Categories
Häftad, 2020
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The main objective of this Element is to reconstruct Aristotle's view on the nature of ontological priority in the Categories. Over the last three decades, investigations into ontological dependence and priority have become a major concern in contemporary metaphysics. Many see Aristotle as the …
