9/11 and the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq left many people baffled and concerned. This book traces how different cultures... Læs mere
This volume covers three main areas of study. Firstly, the metaphysics of Aristotle's logical works, secondly the logic in a more conventional sense and lastly the higher metaphysics of the Neoplatonists. All sources appear in English translation.
The physics of the commentators was innovatory. The Neoplatonists thought the world of space and time was ordered by a non-spatial, non-temporal world.... Læs mere
Psychology was, for the Neoplatanist commentators, the gateway to metaphysics and theology. It was the subject on which Plato and Aristotle disagreed most.... Læs mere
Physics in Neoplatonist thought, the subject which occupies the second volume of this sourcebook, was innovative: the world of space and time was causally ordered by a nonspatial, nontemporal world, and this view required original thinking