Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoreanism in the First Century Bc - New Directions for Philosophy

Presents an up-to-date overview of the new directions taken by ancient philosophy in the first century BC.

List of contents

Introduction Malcolm Schofield; 1. The texts of Plato and Aristotle in the first century BC Myrto Hatzimichali; 2. Platonist approaches to Aristotle: from Antiochus of Ascalon to Eudorus of Alexandria (and beyond) Riccardo Chiaradonna; 3. Boethius' Aristotelian ontology Marwan Rashed; 4. Aristotelianism in the first century BC: Xenarchus of Seleucia Andrea Falcon; 5. Posidonius as historian of philosophy: an interpretation of Plutarch, De Animae Procreatione in Timaeo 22, 1023b-c Anna Eunyoung Ju; 6. Asclepiades of Bithynia and Heraclides Ponticus: medical Platonism? Roberto Polito; 7. The eclectic Pythagoreanism of Alexander Polyhistor A. A. Long; 8. Pythagoreanizing Aristotle: Eudorus and the systematization of Platonism Mauro Bonazzi; 9. Cicero and the Timaeus David Sedley; 10. Plato's Laws and Cicero's De Legibus Julia Annas; 11. Of Cicero's Plato: fictions, forms, foundations Ingo Gildenhard.

About the author

Malcolm Schofield is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He is co-author (with G. S. Kirk and J. E. Raven) of the second edition of The Presocratic Philosophers (1983) and co-editor (with Keimpe Algra, Jonathan Barnes and Jaap Mansfeld) of The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy (1999). His other publications include An Essay on Anaxagoras (1980), The Stoic Idea of the City (1991; 2nd edition, 1999) and Plato: Political Philosophy (2006).

Summary

This book presents an up-to-date overview of the main new directions taken by ancient philosophy in the first century BC. It demonstrates the intensity of renewed study of Aristotle's Categories and Plato's Timaeus, and will be indispensable for scholars and students interested in the history of Platonism and Aristotelianism.

Product details

• Authors: EDITED BY MALCOLM SC, Malcolm Schofield, Malcolm (University of Cambridge) Schofield
• Assisted by: Malcolm Schofield (Editor), Malcolm (University of Cambridge) Schofield (Editor), Schofield Malcolm (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781108439060
• ISBN: 978-1-108-43906-0
• No. of pages: 329
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: general, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500