Encyclopedia of Classical PhilosophyDonald J. Zeyl, Daniel Devereux, Phillip Mitsis The only encyclopedia in English specific to the field of Classical Philosophy, this work presents 270 articles on major and minor figures and on topics of importance to the philosophy of Greek and Roman antiquity. The articles present not only succinct historical accounts of their subject matter, but they introduce readers to issues of interpretation and debate in the contemporary scholarly study of the philosophy of the Classical period. Scholars, students, and interested lay persons will find this volume useful in gaining a comprehensive view of the field. The contributors, representing three continents, are themselves leading scholars of international stature. |
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... according to nature and living according to ( moral ) * virtue , he saw virtue as very much a matter of the mind's strength . This in turn is specified as the cor- rect measure of physical tension ( tonos ) in the psychic pneuma ...
... According to * Chrysippus everything , however minute , happens in accordance with nature ( phusis ) and with its reason ( logos ) . Though nature is one corporeal substance , one can nevertheless distinguish conceptually between two ...
... According to Aristotle , like a finite length , a finite time is infinitely divisible , and so the task can be completed . At Physics 263a15ff . Aristotle revises his criticism . The earlier will do ad hominem , but if the time or ...
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