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  • World Soul
    James Wilberding
    Many philosophers and scientists over the course of history have held that the world is alive. It has a soul, which governs it and binds it together. This suggestion, once so wide-spread, may strike many of us today as strange and antiquated--in fact, there are few other concepts that, on their face, so capture the sheer distance between us and our philosophical inheritance. Bu...
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    62,15 €

  • Michael of Ephesus
    Alberto Rigolio / James Wilberding / Julia Trompeter
    The two texts translated in this volume of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series both compare the happiness of the practical life, which is subject to the hazards of fortune, with the happiness of the life of philosophical contemplation, which is subject to fewer needs. The first is Michael of Ephesus’ 12th-century commentary on Book 10 of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics,...
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    57,44 €

  • Forms, Souls, and Embryos
    James Wilberding
    Forms, Souls, and Embryos　allows readers coming from different backgrounds to appreciate the depth and originality with which the Neoplatonists engaged with and responded to a number of philosophical questions central to human reproduction, including: What is the causal explanation of the embryo’s formation? How and to what extent are Platonic F ...
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    85,45 €

  • Michael of Ephesus
    Alberto Rigolio / James Wilberding / Julia Trompeter
    The two texts translated in this volume of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series both compare the happiness of the practical life, which is subject to the hazards of fortune, with the happiness of the life of philosophical contemplation, which is subject to fewer needs. The first is Michael of Ephesus’ 12th-century commentary on Book 10 of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics...
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    193,33 €

  • Forms, Souls, and Embryos
    James Wilberding
    Forms, Souls, and Embryos　allows readers coming from different backgrounds to appreciate the depth and originality with which the Neoplatonists engaged with and responded to a number of philosophical questions central to human reproduction, including: What is the causal explanation of the embryo’s formation? How and to what extent are Platonic Forms involved? 　In what sense is ...
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    301,88 €

  • Philoponus
    Philoponus / James Wilberding
    In chapters 12-18 of Against Proclus, Philoponus continues to do battle against Proclus’ arguments for the beginninglessness and everlastingness of the ordered universe. In this final section there are three notable issues under discussion. The first concerns the composition of the heavens and its manner of movement. Philoponus argues against the Aristotelian thesis that there ...
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    66,98 €

  • Porphyry
    Porphyry / James Wilberding
    Concerning embryos, Porphyry takes an original view on issues that had been left undecided by his teacher Plotinus and earlier by the doctor Galen. What role is played in the development of the embryo by the souls or the natures of the father, of the mother, of the embryo, or of the whole world? Porphyry’s detailed answer, in contrast to Aristotle’s, gives a significant role to...
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    67,02 €

  • Porphyry
    Porphyry / James Wilberding
    Concerning embryos, Porphyry takes an original view on issues that had been left undecided by his teacher Plotinus and earlier by the doctor Galen. What role is played in the development of the embryo by the souls or the natures of the father, of the mother, of the embryo, or of the whole world? Porphyry’s detailed answer, in contrast to Aristotle’s, gives a significant role to...
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    285,21 €

  • Philoponus
    Philoponus / James Wilberding
    In chapters 12-18 of Against Proclus, Philoponus continues to do battle against Proclus’ arguments for the beginninglessness and everlastingness of the ordered universe. In this final section there are three notable issues under discussion. The first concerns the composition of the heavens and its manner of movement. Philoponus argues against the Aristotelian thesis that there ...
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    206,78 €

  • Plotinus’ Cosmology
    James Wilberding
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    324,16 €