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Themes in Neoplatonic and Aristotelian Logic - Order, Negation and Abstraction (Hardcover, New edition) Loot Price: R4,477
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Themes in Neoplatonic and Aristotelian Logic - Order, Negation and Abstraction (Hardcover, New edition): John N. Martin

Themes in Neoplatonic and Aristotelian Logic - Order, Negation and Abstraction (Hardcover, New edition)

John N. Martin

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Were the most serious philosophers of the millennium 200 A.D. to 1200 A.D. just confused mystics? This book shows otherwise. John Martin rehabilitates Neoplatonism, founded by Plotinus and brought into Christianity by St. Augustine. The Neoplatonists devise ranking predicates like good, excellent, perfect to divide the Chain of Being, and use the predicate intensifier hyper so that it becomes a valid logical argument to reason from God is not (merely) good to God is hyper-good. In this way the relational facts underlying reality find expression in Aristotle's subject-predicate statements, and the Platonic tradition proves able to subsume Aristotle's logic while at the same time rejecting his metaphysics. In the Middle Ages when Aristotle's larger philosophy was recovered and joined again to the Neoplatonic tradition which was never lost, Neoplatonic logic lived along side Aristotle's metaphysics in a sometime confusing and unsettled way. Showing Neoplatonism to be significantly richer in its logical and philosophical ideas than it is usually given credit for, this book will be of interest not just to historians of logic, but to philosophers, logicians, linguists, and theologians.

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Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: November 2004
First published: 2004
Authors: John N. Martin
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 218
Edition: New edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-0811-0
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600 > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600 > General
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LSN: 0-7546-0811-5
Barcode: 9780754608110

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