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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... living thing in the sublunary sphere , whether plant or animal , is a composite of form and matter , its substantial form being the soul , and its matter being what is potentially alive . The kind of form that makes something an animate ...
... living 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 ...
... living . Since one could retain moral goodness and yet have one's life rendered not worth living by disease , the posses- sion of virtue alone cannot guarantee eudaimonia . When Socrates says that a good man cannot be harmed or that a ...
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