englischOn the question of the divine, as on others, the Neoplatonic tradition has gradually made the reading of Aristotle a philosophical preriquisite. The contributions gathered in this volume aim at understanding how the Neoplatonic readers of Aristotle’s theology interpreted, commented on and [...]
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The essays collected in this volume focus on Aristotle's notion of nous (usually translated as 'intellect','mind' or simply 'thinking') in Aristotle's works. They aim at elucidating the status and the function of the intellectual faculty in the context of Aristotle's analysis of the faculties of the [...]
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The traditional name 'destiny' was used in Hellenistic and Roman philosophy to designate a situation where everything happens in an inescapable order. Stoics were the main defenders of such theory. They maintained that, since everything has a cause, the sequence of causes and events is laid down [...]
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englisch'One', Aristotle says, can be said in many ways and each being is one. Through a comprehensive analysis of the passages in which Aristotle makes sense of these claims, the book provides a detailed account of how the different ways of being one permeate the domain of being and explores [...]
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englischThe work presented here delves into Aristotle's theory of chance in Phys. II 4-6, a text found within the discussion about the principles and causes of natural philosophy. Always having this context in view, the author offers an interpretation of the generic definition of chance as a certain [...]
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englischThis book intends to examine the Aristotelian theology as it is manifested within Corpus aristotelicum and in the third book of De Philosophia. The contemporary presence and even the superimposition of theologies of diverse origins is rendered possible, for Aristotle, by the use of the term [...]
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englischDespite the large number of studies appearing nowadays on Aristotle's Metaphysics the most logical part of the work, Book Iota, has been injustly neglected by modern scholars. Yet it is an essential part of the Aristotelian science of Being qua Being, a part which presents us with the most [...]
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englischThis is a study of the influence of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics on the structure and methodology of the science of being qua being undertaken in his Metaphysics. Bell argues that Aristotle's account of the science of being developed in the methodological chapters of the Metaphysics is [...]
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englischThe Fourth Book of Aristotle's Meteorologica has been defined as a 'Chemical Treatise'. It is the starting point of a long, rich activity of exegesis and appropriation, from later Greek philosophy to Arab and Latin Medieval thought. The papers in this volume take the reader through the [...]
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