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Reading Ancient Texts. Volume II : Essays in Honour of Denis O'Brien.
Title:
Reading Ancient Texts. Volume II : Essays in Honour of Denis O'Brien.
Author:
Stern-Gillet, Suzanne.
ISBN:
9789047432845
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (310 pages)
Series:
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; v.No. 162

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Contents:
Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- I ARISTOTLE -- Aristotle's Conception of Dunamis and Techne (C. Natali (Venice)) -- Aristotle and the Starting Point of Moral Development: The Notion of Natural Virtue (C. Viano (CNRS, Paris)) -- Akrasia and Moral Education in Aristotle (J. Cleary (Boston College & NUI Maynooth)) -- Effective Primary Causes: The Notion of Contact and the Possibility of Acting without Being Affected in Aristotle's De Generatione et Corruptione (T. Buchheim (Munich)) -- II PLATO AND HIS HEIRS: FROM APULEIUS TO AUGUSTINE -- Interpretation from Plato to Late Antiquity (K. Corrigan (Emory)) -- The Final Metamorphosis: Narrative Voice in the Prologue of Apuleius' Golden Ass (F.M. Schroeder (Queen's, Ontario)) -- Plotinus: Omnipresence and Transcendence of the One in VI 5[23] (G. Gurtler S.J. (Boston College)) -- The Concept of Will in Plotinus (C. Horn (Bonn)) -- Divine Freedom in Plotinus and Iamblichus (Tractate VI 8 (39) 7, 11-15 and De Mysteriis III, 17-20) (J.-M. Narbonne (Laval, Québec)) -- Was the Vita Plotini known in Arab Philosophical Circles? (P. Thillet (Paris I, Paris)) -- Friendship and Transgression: Luminosus Limes Amicitiae (Augustine, Confessions 2.2.2) and the Themes of Confessions 2 (G. O'Daly (University College, London)) -- Augustine and the Philosophical Foundations of Sincerity (S. Stern-Gillet (Bolton)) -- III EPILOGUE: INTERPRETATION IN RETROSPECT -- Innovation and Continuity in the History of Philosophy (D. Evans (Queen's, Belfast)) -- A Detailed Bibliography of Denis O'Brien's Works -- Subject Index -- Index of Names.
Abstract:
The contributors to this volume offer, in the light of specialised knowledge of leading philosophers of the ancient world, answers to the question: how are we to read and understand the surviving texts of Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and Augustine?.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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