Studies in Early Greek Philosophy

A Collection of Papers and One Review
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38205-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 151, 430 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Reihe: Philosophia Antiqua

The collection of nineteen articles in Jaap Mansfeld’s Studies in Early Greek Philosophy span the period from Anaximander to Socrates. Solutions to problems of interpretation are offered through a scrutiny of the sources, and also of the traditions of presentation and reception found in antiquity. Excursions in the history of scholarship help to diagnose discussions of which the primum movens may have been forgotten. General questions are treated, for instance the phenomenon of detheologization in doxographical texts, while problems relating to individual philosophers are also discussed. For example, the history of Anaximander’s cosmos, the status of Parmenides’ human world, and the reliability of what we know about the soul of Anaximenes, and of what Philoponus tells us about the behaviour of Democritus’ atoms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mansfeld, Jaap

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Vorsokratische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Detheologization
Aëtian Chapters and Their Peripatetic Background

2 Insight by Hindsight
Intentional Unclarity in Presocratic Proems

3 Bothering the Infinite
Anaximander in the Nineteenth Century and Beyond

4 Anaximander’s Fragment: Another Attempt

5 Anaximenes’ Soul

6 Minima Parmenidea
Exegetical Notes on 28B1.22–23a, B2.1–5, B6.3, and B8.38–41 DK

7 Parmenides from Right to Left

8 Parmenides on Sense Perception in Theophrastus and Elsewhere

9 Heraclitus on Soul and Super-Soul
With an Afterthought on the Afterlife

10 Alcmaeon and Plato on Soul

11 The Body Politic
Aëtius on Alcmaeon on Isonomia and Monarchia

12 Aristotle on Anaxagoras in relation to Empedocles in Metaphysics A

13 “Das verteufelte Lastschiff”
Philolaus 44B12 DK

14 Democritus on Poetry
Fragments 68B18 and B21 DK

15 Out of Touch
Philoponus as a Source for Democritus

16 The Presocratic Philosophers
A Discussion of a New Handbook

17 Protagoras on Epistemological Obstacles and Persons

18 Aristotle on Socrates’ Contributions to Philosophy

19 Hermann Diels (1848–1922)

Index Locorum
Index Nominum et Rerum

Über Autor(innen)

Jaap Mansfeld is Professor Emeritus of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy in the University of Utrecht. He has published on Ancient Philosophy from the Presocratics to the Late Commentators, with a particular focus on ancient historiographical traditions relating to philosophy.