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sehr leicht berieben und minimalste Randl�ren, Bleistiftanmerkung auf Schmutztitel, sonst ein sehr gutes Exemplar / very slightly rubbed and minimal edgewear, pencil annotation on half title, otherwise a very good copy. - This book provides a collection of sources, many of them fragmentary and previously scattered and hard to access, for the development of Peripatetic philosophy in the later Hellenistic period and the early Roman Empire. It also supplies the background against which the first commentator on Aristotle from whom extensive material survives, Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. AD 200), developed his interpretations, which continue to be influential even today. Many of the passages are here translated into English for the first time, including the whole of the summary of Peripatetic ethics attributed to �Arius Didymus�. / Contents Preface List of abbreviations Introduction INDIVIDUALS 1 People 2 The rediscovery of Aristotle�s works? 3 A Hellenistic account of Aristotle�s philosophy 4 Philosophy and rhetoric 5 The starting-point and parts of philosophy 6 Commentaries LOGIC AND ONTOLOGY 7 The Categories-, (i) Placement and title 8 The Categories: (ii) Words or things? 9 The Categories: (iii) Ten categories or two? 10 The Categories: (iv) Time and place 11 On Interpretation 12 Ontology: form and matter 13 Logic 14 Theory of knowledge ETHICS 15 An account of Peripatetic ethics: Stobaeus, �Doxography C� 16 Emotions 17 The primary natural things: oikeidsis 18 Bodily and external goods and happiness PHYSICS 19 The nature of time and place 20 The eternity of the world 21 The heavens 22 God and providence 23 Fate, choice and what depends on us 24 Soul 25 Generation 26 Sensation 27 Intellect Bibliography Index of sources Index of passages cited Index of personal names (ancient) General index. ISBN 9780521711852