David Charles presents fourteen new essays by leading experts on the topic ofdefinition in Greek philosophers from Socrates to Plotinus. It is the first book on the topic for many years and it aims to reawaken interest in this fundamental, but surprisingly neglected, area of ancient philosophy. INDICE: David Charles: Introduction; Part A: Plato on definition; 1: Lindsay Judson: Carried Away in the Euthyphro; 2: Vasilis Politis: Explanation and Essence in Plato's Phaedo; 3: David Charles: The Paradox in the Meno and Aristotle's Attempts to Resolve it; 4: Lesley Brown: Division and Definition in the Sophist; 5: Mary Louise Gill: Division and Definition in Plato's Sophist and Statesman; Part B: Aristotle on Definition; 6: Kei Chiba: Aristotle on Essence and Defining Phrase in his Dialectic; 7: Deborah Modrak: Nominal Definition in Aristotle, his successors and his predecessors; 8: David Charles: Definition and Explanation in the Posterior Analytics (and beyond); 9: James Lennox: Bios and Explanatory Unity in Aristotle's Biology; Part C: Post-Aristotelian writers on definition; 10: Paolo Crivelli: The Stoics on Definition; 11: Richard Sorabji: The Aristotelian Commentators on Definition; 12: Jane Hood: Galen'sAristotelian definitions; 13: Annamaria Schiaparelli: Definition and Explanation in Plotinus: Some Problems; 14: Gail Fine: Sceptical enquiry
- ISBN: 978-0-19-956445-3
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 576
- Fecha Publicación: 19/08/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés