Brill s Studies in Intellectual History Reading Ancient Texts. Volume I: Presocratics and Plato: Essays in Honour of Denis O Brien Book 161 (Hardcover)

What is the history of philosophy? Is it history or is it philosophy or is it by some strange alchemy a confluence of the two? The contributors to the present volume of essays have tackled this seemingly simple but in reality difficult and controversial question by drawing on their specialised knowledge of the surviving texts of leading ancient philosophers from the Presocratics to Augustine through Plato Aristotle and Plotinus. These contributions which reflect the range of methods and approaches currently used in the study of ancient texts are offered as a tribute to the scholarship of Denis O Brien one of the most original and penetrating students of the thousand-year period of intense philosophical activity that constitutes ancient philosophy. Contributors include: T. Ebert F. Fronterrota C.J. Gill C. Huffman N. Notomi J.-C. Picot J.-F. Pradeau M. Rashed K. Sayre R.K. Sprague and J.G.C. Strachan. Publications by Denis O Brien: - Theories of Weight in the Ancient World: Four Essays on Democritus Plato and Aristotle - A Study in the Development of Ideas. 1. Democritus: Weight and Size. An Exercise in the Reconstruction of Early Greek Philosophy ISBN: 978 90 04 06134 7 (Out of print) - Pour interpréter Empédocle ISBN: 978 90 04 06249 8 (Out of print) - Theories of Weight in the Ancient World: Four Essays on Democritus Plato and Aristotle - A Study in the Development of Ideas. 2. Plato: Weight and Sensation. The Two Theories of the Timaeus ISBN: 978 90 04 06934 3 - Théodicée plotinienne théodicée gnostique ISBN: 978 90 04 09618 9