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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... mind to far too little appro- priate — that is , teleological - work : causation in his system was mostly mechanistic , with mind invoked only as a sort of " god of the gaps " in explanation . Post - Darwinian readers will perhaps be ...
... mind or soul are might suggest that the mind does not know what it itself is after all . Yet that must be wrong if , as Augustine has just maintained , the mind knows what a mind is , simply and di- rectly , from its own case . How ...
... mind ( nous ) that is active in a way that is analogous to the way light enables a percipient to see color . It is unlikely that by positing active mind Aristo- tle intended to abandon psychophysical hylomorphism in favor of dual- ism ...
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