Sten Ebbesen

Greek-Latin Philosophical Interaction

Collected Essays of Sten Ebbesen Volume 1

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Produktbeschreibung

Sten Ebbesen has contributed many works in the field of ancient and medieval philosophy over many decades of dedicated research. His style is crisp and lucid and his philosophical penetration and exposition of often difficult concepts and issues is both clear and intellectually impressive. Ashgate is proud to present this three volume set of his collected essays, all of them thoroughly revised and updated. Each volume is thematically arranged. Volume One: Greek-Latin Philosophical Interaction explores issues of relevance to the history of logic and semantics, and in particular connections and/or differences between Greek and Latin theory and scholarly procedures, with special emphasis on late antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780754658375
• ISBN-10: 0754658376
• Artikelnr.: 48915244

Autorenporträt

Sten Ebbesen is from the Department of Greek and Latin at the SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
The Greek under the Latin and the Latin under the Greek
Greek-Latin philosophical interaction
The odyssey of semantics from the Stoa to Buridan
The chimera's diary - edited by Sten Ebbesen
Where were the stoics in the late Middle Ages?
Theories of language in the Hellenistic age and in the 12th and 13th centuries
Late-ancient ancestors of Medieval philosophical commentaries
Boethius on Aristotle
Boethius on the metaphysics of words
Western and Byzantine approaches to logic
Greek and Latin medieval logic
Philoponus, 'Alexander' and the origins of medieval logic
Analysing syllogisms or anonymous Aurelianensis III - the (presumably) earliest extant Latin commentary on the prior analytics, and its Greek model
Fragments of 'Alexander's' commentaries on Analytica Posteriora and Sophistici Elenchi
Bibliography
Indexes.