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(Method and Metaphysics presents twenty-six essays in anci...)
Method and Metaphysics presents twenty-six essays in ancient philosophy by Jonathan Barnes, one of the most admired and influential scholars of his generation. The essays span four decades of his career, and are drawn from a wide variety of sources: many of them will be relatively unknown even to specialists in ancient philosophy. Several essays are now translated from the original French and made available in English for the first time; others have been substantially revised for republication. The volume opens with eight essays about the interpretation of ancient philosophical texts, and about the relationship between philosophy and its history. The next five essays examine the methods of ancient philosophers. The third section comprises thirteen essays about metaphysical topics, from the Presocratics to the late Platonists. This collection will be a rich feast for students and scholars of ancient philosophy.
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The influence of Aristotle, the prince of philosophers, on the intellectual history of the West is second to none. In this book, Jonathan Barnes examines Aristotle's scientific researches, his discoveries in logic and his metaphysical theories, his work in psychology and in ethics and politics, and his ideas about art and poetry, placing his teachings in their historical context. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.
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La colección Conversaciones con...nos ofrece una relajada y entretenida charla con los hombres y mujeres más importantes de la historia de la humanidad. Más de dos mil años después de su muerte, seguimos influenciados por el pensamiento del gran filósofo Aristóteles. Cuando usamos palabras como «potencial» y «actual», «teoría» y «práctica», hablamos el lenguaje de Aristóteles. Al hablar con él, sin embargo, pronto nos daremos cuenta de que algunas de sus ideas se han transmitido con más acierto que otras a través de los siglos. Su autor, Jonathan Barnes, enseñó filosofía durante cuatro décadas en las universidades de Oxford, Ginebra y París.
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(In the works of Sextus Empiricus, scepticism is presented...)
In the works of Sextus Empiricus, scepticism is presented in its most elaborate and challenging form. This book investigates - both from an exegetical and from a philosophical point of view - the chief argumentative forms which ancient scepticism developed. Thus the particular focus is on the Agrippan aspect of Sextus' Pyrrhonism. Barnes gives a lucid explanation and analysis of these arguments, both individually and as constituent parts of a sceptical system. For, taken together, these forms amount to a formidable and systematic challenge to any claim to knowledge or rational belief. The challenge had a great influence on the history of philosophy. And it has never been met. This study reflects the growing interest in ancient scepticism. Quotations from the ancient sources are all translated and Greek terms are explained. Notes on the ancient authors give a brief guide to the sources, both familiar and unfamiliar.
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This is the fourth (and last) volume of Jonathan Barnes' collected essays on ancient philosophy. As its title suggests, the twenty-three papers which it contains cover a wide range of topics. The first paper discusses the size of the sun, and the last looks at Plato and Aristotle in Victorian Oxford. In between come pieces on--inter alia--the theory of just war and the definition of comedy, the nature of the soul according to Plato and Aristotle and Zeno and Tertullian, atheism of Protagoras, Timaeus the Sophist (and his Platonic Lexicon) and the early history of Aristotle's writings, Nietzsche on Diogenes Laertius, the first Christian novel ... One of the pieces is new. The others have all been retouched, and some of them revised. Half a dozen were written in French and have been translated into English. The volume is kitted out with a bibliography and with two rather good indexes. The papers are, in parts at least, well written, and some of them are mildly diverting: no-one with a nose for ancient philosophy will sniff at them.
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('Truth, etc.' is a study of ancient logic based upon the ...)
'Truth, etc.' is a study of ancient logic based upon the John Locke lectures given by the philosopher Jonathan Barnes in Oxford. The book presupposes no knowledge of logic and no skill in ancient languages; all ancient texts are cited in English translation; and logical symbols and logical jargon are avoided so far as possible.
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The second volume of Jonathan Barnes' papers on ancient philosophy contains twenty-seven pieces under the broad heading of Logic. The essays were written over a period of some forty years. Some of them were published in obscure places (and two or three of them in a foreign language). The French essays have been done into English; and all the essays have been retouched, and a few of them substantially revised. The first three essays in the volume are of a general nature, being concerned with ancient views on the status of logic--and with the distinction between formal and material inferences. The next nine items deal with different aspects of Aristotelian logic--the copula, negation, the categories, homonymy, and the principle of contradiction. Then come three papers about the connection (or lack of connection) between Aristotelian logic and Stoic logic. Two of the pieces discuss Theophrastus' theory of 'hypothetical' syllogisms. After that, things run more or less chronologically--a short notice on the Dialecticians, three essays on aspects of Stoic logic, a pair of papers on ancient theories of meaning, items on adverbs and connectors, on Philoponus and Boethius, and on an anonymous tract written in the autumn of 1007 AD. All in all, there is matter to divert scholars and students of ancient philosophy.
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(Truth, etc. is a wide-ranging study of ancient logic base...)
Truth, etc. is a wide-ranging study of ancient logic based upon the John Locke lectures given by the eminent philosopher Jonathan Barnes in Oxford. Its six chapters discuss, first, certain ancient ideas about truth; secondly, the Aristotelian conception of predication; thirdly, various ideas about connectors which were developed by the ancient logicians and grammarians; fourthly, the notion of logical form, insofar as it may be discovered in the ancient texts; fifthly, the question of the 'justification of deduction'; and sixthly, the attitude which has been called logical utilitarianism and which restricts the scope of logic to those forms of inference which are or might be useful for scientific proofs. In principle, the book presupposes no knowledge of logic and no skill in ancient languages: all ancient texts are cited in English translation; and logical symbols and logical jargon are avoided so far as possible. There is no scholarly apparatus of footnotes, and no bibliography. It can be read in an armchair. Anyone interested in ancient philosophy, or in logic and its history, will find it interesting.
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(Aristotle is an encyclopedic scholar. 2000 years after hi...)
Aristotle is an encyclopedic scholar. 2000 years after his death, we are still influenced by Aristotelianism. When we use words such as essence and accident, potential and practical, theory and practice, we are actually speaking the language of Aristotle. For his whole life, Aristotle has never tasted coffee, nor does he know the taste of turkey, potato and tobacco.
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( Not many people can claim to have invented a new scienc...)
Not many people can claim to have invented a new science, but Aristotle invented two: zoology and logic. More than two millennia after his death, Aristotle’s thought still influences us. Here, over coffee (a drink Aristotle never tasted), he converses with refreshing and illuminating simplicity about everything from causation and deduction to the role of women and the wonders of the natural world in a pre-scientific age.
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Proof, Knowledge, and Scepticism is the third volume of Jonathan Barnes' papers on ancient philosophy. It contains twenty-two pieces which turn about epistemological matters. The papers have all been brushed down, and some of them have been revised. One or two of them appear for the first time in English. The first three pieces form a prologue (and link this volume to its predecessor): they deal with certain ancient views about the relation between logic on the one hand and knowledge and science on the other. After that, the book divides into two unequal parts. The first part is concerned with proof, five of its ten chapters discussing Aristotle and three. The second is chiefly occupied with scepticism--more particularly, with the Pyrrhonian version of ancient scepticism. A final piece says something about the Book of Ecclesiastes. The essays in this volume, some of which are less familiar than others, are written with brio: anyone with an interest in ancient philosophy will find them amusing.
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He was educated at the City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford University.
He taught for 25 years at Oxford University before moving to the University of Geneva. He was a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, 1968-1978. A Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, 1978-1994, and has been Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College since 1994.
He was Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Oxford University, 1989-1994.
He was Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Geneva 1994–2002. He taught at the University of Paris-Sorbonne in France, and took his éméritat in 2006.
He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1987. He is an expert on ancient Greek philosophy, and has edited the two-volume collection of Aristotle"s works as well as a number of commentaries on Aristotle, the pre-Socratics and other areas of Greek thought.
He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2012.
He is the brother of the novelist Julian Barnes, and he and his family feature in the latter"s memoir Nothing to be Frightened Of (2008).
(Method and Metaphysics presents twenty-six essays in anci...)
(The second volume of Jonathan Barnes' papers on ancient p...)
(The influence of Aristotle, the prince of philosophers, o...)
( Not many people can claim to have invented a new scienc...)
(Proof, Knowledge, and Scepticism is the third volume of J...)
(In the works of Sextus Empiricus, scepticism is presented...)
(This is the fourth (and last) volume of Jonathan Barnes' ...)
(Aristotle is an encyclopedic scholar. 2000 years after hi...)
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('Truth, etc.' is a study of ancient logic based upon the ...)
(Truth, etc. is a wide-ranging study of ancient logic base...)
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