"This volume and its companions together contain most of the papers I have published on ancient philosophy over the last forty odd years. Short reviews of books have, almost all, been excluded; so have articles for encyclopaedias and the like; and also one or two items which repeat or anticipate what I have written elsewhere. The pieces are organized thematically rather than chronologically"--Preface, p. [ix].
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"The essays which were originally published in French (and in one case in Italian) are here done into English"--Preface, p. [ix].
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Ancient philosophers - The history of philosophy - Philosophy within quotation marks? - Anglophone attitudes - Brentano's Aristotle - Heidegger in the cave - 'There was an old person from Tyre' - The Presocratics in context - Argument in ancient philosophy - Philosophy and dialectic - Aristotle and the methods of ethics - Metacommentary - An introduction to Aspasius - Parmenides and the Eleatic One - Reason and necessity in Leucippus - Plato's cyclical argument - Death and the philosopher - Aristotelian arithmetic - The principle of plenitude - 'Aristotle's opinion concerning destiny and what is up to us' - 'Belief is up to us' - The same again : the Stoics and eternal recurrence - Bits and pieces - Partial wholes - 'Drei Sonnen sah ich ...' : Syrianus and astronomy -- Immaterial causes.
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Barnes, Jonathan,1942-Essays in ancient philosophy