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Theophrastus was Aristotle's pupil and second head of the
Peripatetic School. Apart from two botanical works, a collection of
character sketches, and several scientific opuscula, his works
survive only through quotations and reports in secondary sources.
Recently these quotations and reports have been collected and
published, thereby making the thought of Theophrastus accessible to
a wide audience. The present volume contains seventeen responses to
this material. There are chapters dealing with Theophrastus' views
on logic, physics, biology, ethics, politics, rhetoric, and music,
as well as the life of Theophrastus. Together these writings throw
considerable light on fundamental questions concerning the
development and importance of the Peripatos in the early
Hellenistic period. The authors consider whether Theophrastus was a
systematic thinker who imposed coherence and consistency on a
growing body of knowledge, or a problem-oriented thinker who
foreshadowed the dissolution of Peripatetic thought into various
loosely connected disciplines. Of special interest are those essays
which deal with Theophrastus' intellectual position in relation to
the lively philosophic scene occupied by such contemporaries as
Zeno, the founder of the Stoa, and Epicurus, the founder of the
Garden, as well as Xenocrates and Polemon hi the Academy, and
Theophrastus' fellow Peripatetics, Eudemus and Strato. The
contributors to the volume are Suzanne Amigues, Antonio
Battegazzore, Tiziano Dorandi, Woldemar Gorier, John Glucker, Hans
Gottschalk, Frans de Haas, Andre Laks, Anthony Long, Jorgen Mejer,
Mario Mignucci, Trevor Saunders, Dirk Schenkeveld, David Sedley,
Robert Sharpies, C. M. J. Sicking and Richard Sorabji. The Rutgers
University Studies in Classical Humanities series is a forum for
seminal thinking in the field of philosophy, and this volume is no
exception. Theophrastus is a landmark achievement in intellectual
thought. Philosophers, historians, and classicists will all find
this work to be enlightening.
Theophrastus was Aristotle's pupil and second head of the
Peripatetic School. Apart from two botanical works, a collection of
character sketches, and several scientific opuscula, his works
survive only through quotations and reports in secondary sources.
Recently these quotations and reports have been collected and
published, thereby making the thought of Theophrastus accessible to
a wide audience. The present volume contains seventeen responses to
this material. There are chapters dealing with Theophrastus' views
on logic, physics, biology, ethics, politics, rhetoric, and music,
as well as the life of Theophrastus. Together these writings throw
considerable light on fundamental questions concerning the
development and importance of the Peripatos in the early
Hellenistic period. The authors consider whether Theophrastus was a
systematic thinker who imposed coherence and consistency on a
growing body of knowledge, or a problem-oriented thinker who
foreshadowed the dissolution of Peripatetic thought into various
loosely connected disciplines. Of special interest are those essays
which deal with Theophrastus' intellectual position in relation to
the lively philosophic scene occupied by such contemporaries as
Zeno, the founder of the Stoa, and Epicurus, the founder of the
Garden, as well as Xenocrates and Polemon hi the Academy, and
Theophrastus' fellow Peripatetics, Eudemus and Strato. The
contributors to the volume are Suzanne Amigues, Antonio
Battegazzore, Tiziano Dorandi, Woldemar Gorier, John Glucker, Hans
Gottschalk, Frans de Haas, Andre Laks, Anthony Long, Jorgen Mejer,
Mario Mignucci, Trevor Saunders, Dirk Schenkeveld, David Sedley,
Robert Sharpies, C. M. J. Sicking and Richard Sorabji. The Rutgers
University Studies in Classical Humanities series is a forum for
seminal thinking in the field of philosophy, and this volume is no
exception. Theophrastus is a landmark achievement in intellectual
thought. Philosophers, historians, and classicists will all find
this work to be enlightening.
Aristotle's Topics is about dialectic, which can be understood as a
debate between two people or the inner debate of one thinker with
himself. Its purposes range from philosophical training to
discovering the first principles of thought. Its arguments concern
the four predicables (definition, property, genus and accident).
Aristotle explains how these four fit into his ten categories, and
in Book 1 begins to outline strategies for debate, such as the
definition of ambiguity. Alexander's commentary on Book 1 discusses
how to define Aristotelian syllogistic argument, why it stands up
against the rival Stoic theory of interference, and what is the
character of inductive interference and of rhetorical argument. He
distinguishes inseparable accidents such as the whiteness of snow
from defining differentiae such as its being frozen, and considers
how these fit into the scheme of categories. He speaks of dialectic
as a stochastic discipline in which success is to be judged not by
victory but by skill in argument, a view parallel to that sometimes
taken in antiquity of medical practice. And he investigates the
subject of ambiguity which had also been richly developed since
Aristotle by the rival Stoic school.
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