دانلود کتاب Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoreanism in the First Century BC: New Directions for Philosophy

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Contents\nNotes on contributors\nPreface\nIntroduction\nChapter 1 The texts of Plato and Aristotle in the first century bc\n Text-based philosophy\n Plato\'s text\n The fate of Aristotle\'s books\n Andronicus and the Aristotelian corpus\n The impact of Andronicus’ canon\n Conclusion\nChapter 2 Platonist approaches to Aristotle: from Antiochus of Ascalon to Eudorus of Alexandria (and beyond)\n Antiochus\n After Antiochus: Aristo and Cratippus\n Eudorus\n Conclusion\nChapter 3 Boethus’ Aristotelian ontology\n Boethus’ criterion of substantiality\n 1. Boethus’ theory of substance and predication\n 2. Boethus on inherence\n 3. A confirmation: \'substance’, \'relative’ (sic) and \'having’ according to Boethus\n Alexander of Aphrodisias against Boethus on substance\n 1. The parts of the substance are substances\n 2. A new theory of inherence\n Boethus again on the non-substantiality of the form\n 1. Boethus on the category of the form\n 2. Boethus on what it is to be a subject\n Conclusion: Boethus’ having vs. Stoic sayable\nChapter 4 Aristotelianism in the first century bc: Xenarchus of Seleucia\n Xenarchus’ criticism of the doctrine of the fifth substance\n Beyond Xenarchus’ criticism of the doctrine of the fifth substance\n Xenarchus and Aristotle\'s ethics\n Xenarchus and the return to Aristotle in the first century\n Conclusion\nChapter 5 Posidonius as historian of philosophy: an interpretation of Plutarch, de Animae Procreatione in Timaeo 22, 1023b–c\n Introduction\n \'The being of the limits’\n The Platonic \'soul’ as reason\n Mathematicising Platonic \'reason’\nChapter 6 Asclepiades of Bithynia and Heraclides Ponticus: medical Platonism?\nChapter 7 The eclectic Pythagoreanism of Alexander Polyhistor\n Introduction\n Text and context\n Philosophical content and character\n Principles\n From numbers to the formed universe\n Equality of opposite powers: light dark, hot cold, dry moist (D.L. 8.26)\n Air and aether, heat, divinity and the source of life (D.L. 8.26-8)\n Soul, reproduction, embryology (D.L. 8.28-9)\n The human soul (D.L. 8.29)\n Eschatology and rituals\n Conclusions\nChapter 8 Pythagoreanising Aristotle: Eudorus and the systematisation of Platonism\n Eudorus the \'academic’\n Eudorus and the Pythagorean \'Timaeus’ on the world soul and the generation of the universe\n Platonising Pythagoras, Pythagoreanising Aristotle\n Eudorus and Aristotle\'s categories\n Concluding remarks\nChapter 9 Cicero and the Timaeus\nChapter 10 Plato\'s Laws and Cicero\'s de Legibus\n Cicero\'s Plato\n Plato\'s preambles: law, virtue and happiness\n Cicero on law and virtue\n Laws for the best state\n Conclusion\nChapter 11 Of Cicero\'s Plato: fictions, Forms, foundations\n Thinking perfection: ideal types and forms in Plato\n Historical perfection in the 50s BC\n Ascent to the Forms: Cicero\'s Epanabathmos\n Forms and their function: philosophy and politics\n Conclusion: why the shift?\nBibliography\nIndex of passages\nGeneral index