Alexander of Aphrodisias: Supplement to On the Soul 9781472551696, 9780715632369

The Supplement transmitted as the second book of On the Soul by Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. 200 AD) is a collection

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Alexander of Aphrodisias: Supplement to On the Soul
9781472551696, 9780715632369

The problem of free will, human responsibility, and determinism is one that has fascinated philosophers and laymen alike

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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The commentary on Metaphysics 1; Alexander and his commentary; Translato

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In his work On Sense Perception, Aristotle discusses the material conditions of perception, starting with the sense orga

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In Metaphysics 4 Aristotle discusses the nature of metaphysics, the basic laws of logic, the falsity of subjectivism and

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Aristotle's Topics is a handbook for dialectic, i.e. the exercise for philosophical debates between a questioner an

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Aristotle’s Topics is a handbook for dialectic, which can be understood as a philosophical debate between a questioner a

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Aristotle’s Topics is about dialectic, which can be understood as a debate between two people or the inner debate of one

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Alexander of Aphrodisias was the greatest exponent of Aristotelianism after Aristotle, and his commentary on Metaphysics

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This important commentary by Alexander of Aphrodisias on Aristotle’s work on biochemistry was previously lost. However,

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Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics has been a central text in moral philosophy since the fourth century BC. The Ethical Prob

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