Keimpe Algra
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1713004 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Keimpe Algra |
| NOMBRES | Keimpe |
| APELLIDO | Algra |
| FIRMA | ALGRA K |
| AFILIACIONES | Utrecht University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Principles of Epicurean Atomism
This chapter investigates the physical and metaphysical principles of Epicurean atomism, beginning (§1) with an examination of the way in which these principles were rooted within a historical tradition of discussion which included Eleatic philosophy, Democritus, Aristotle, and Diodorus Cronus. After examining some metaphysical principles that crucially determine the outlines of Epicurean physics (§2), the chapter turns to a discussion of the onl…
Arius Didymus as a Doxographer of Stoicism
A considerable number of doxographical passages on Aristotelian and Stoic physics and two continuous accounts of Aristotelian and Stoic ethics, all reproduced in Stobaeus, plus a much smaller number of fragments provided by other authors (Eusebius in particular) are nowadays commonly attributed to Arius Didymus, who is often identified with the court philosopher to the emperor Augustus. Various aspects of these attributions, previously canonized …
Hellenistic Philosophy
In the Hellenistic period the philosophical landscape became increasingly varied. The Stoic and Epicurean schools transformed philosophy into something that was of more than theoretical interest, something that should also be lived, carrying the promise of happiness for those who were prepared to follow its lead. The fact that Epicureanism presented itself as a liberating philosophy does not imply that it should be regarded as some kind of pseudo…
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Sextus Empiricus and Ancient Physics
The two books of Sextus Empiricus' Against the Physicists have not received much attention in their own right, as sustained and methodical specimens of sceptical philosophy. This volume redresses the balance by offering a series of in-depth studies on them, focusing in particular on their overall argumentative structure and on the various ways in which their formal features relate to their contents, showing how Sextus' procedures vary from one se…
Sextus Empiricus and Ancient Physics
Stoics On Souls And Demons
The Stoic cosmos is determined by a single perfectly rational and provident force, ordering everything for the best; its inherent order, which is intelligible to humans, is both the source of, and perfect example for, human rationality. This chapter investigates whether and to what extent anything like an appropriation of aspects of traditional demonology was effected in Stoicism. It charts the evidence, reconstruct the outlines of underlying the…
Stoics on souls and demons
Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition
This will be my last set of booknotes on 'Aristotle': I am handing over this task to Ben Morison. Four of the books which I kept for this occasion concern aspects of the Aristotelian tradition (ancient, medieval and modern) rather than Aristotle himself, and I shall start with these. Robert Todd's annotated translation of Themistius' commentary on, or rather interpretative paraphrase of, Aristotle's Physics IV, published in Richard Sorabji's seri…
On Generation and Corruption I. 3
My contribution to this book deals with the ‘chapter’ in which Aristotle discusses coming to be simpliciter (simpliciter is the standard rendering of a1rt\ws-). This “chapter’ constitutes a relatively autonomous section of GC book I. To bring this out I provide an overview of its structure and argumentation in Section 1 below. Comments on particular points of detail will be appended here as footnotes. In the three sections that follow (2-4) the d…
Hellenistic and Early Imperial Philosophy
Before handing over the responsibility for the book notes section on Hellenistic philosophy to Christopher Gill, I would like to take the opportunity to clear away my backlog and to discuss, along with a few books that were actually sent to me recently, one or two works which I should probably have covered earlier, but which I irresponsibly kept for a later occasion. Together they make for a remarkably interesting set. I shall discuss them more o…
Aristotle
The Mechanism of Social Appropriation and its Role in Hellenistic Ethics
In the historiography of philosophy Hellenistic ethics has often been characterized as rather narrowly focused on the (good) life of the individual. As the cliche would have it, the demise of the Greek polis structure deprived the traditional political or social branches of ethics of their vitality and fostered the development of ethical systems that were solely concerned with individual happiness.
The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics
This unique volume offers an odyssey through the ideas of the Stoics in three particular ways: first, through the historical trajectory of the school itself and its influence; second, through the recovery of the history of Stoic thought; third, through the ongoing confrontation with Stoicism, showing how it refines philosophical traditions, challenges the imagination, and ultimately defines the kind of life one chooses to lead. A distinguished ro…
Stoic Theology
The object of Stoic theology was the governing principle of the cosmos, insofar as this could also be labeled 'god'. The Stoics accordingly regarded theology as part of physics, more specifically as that part which does not focus on the details and the purely physical aspects of cosmic processes, but rather on their overall coherence, teleology, and providential design, as well as on the question of how this cosmic theology relates to popular for…
Hellenistic Philosophy and Some Science
These book notes mainly deal with some recent books on Hellenistic philosophy, but the final section will be devoted to three books on ancient science (post-Hellenistic as well as Hellenistic). Let us begin with Hellenistic scepticism. Its students are well served by three recent books (one edition and two monographs) published by Oxford University Press. Aristocles of Messene is one of the most important sources for our knowledge of (or perhaps …
Aristotle
The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy
Part I. Introduction: 1. Sources Jaap Mansfeld 2. Chronology Tiziano Dorandi 3. Organization and structure of the philosophical schools Tiziano Dorandi Part II. Logic and Language: 4. Introduction Jonathan Barnes 5. Logic Jonathan Barnes and Susanne Bobzien 6. Language Dirk M. Schenkeveld Part III. Epistemology: 7. Introduction: the beginnings of Hellenistic epistemology Jacques Brunschwig 8. Epicurean epistemology Elizabeth Asmis 9. Stoic episte…
Book Notes
Hellenistic Philosophy
The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy
A full account of the philosophy of the Greek and Roman worlds from the last days of Aristotle (c.320 BC) until 100 BC. Hellenistic philosophy, for long relatively neglected and unappreciated, has over the last decade been the object of a considerable amount of scholarly attention. Now available in paperback, this 1999 volume is a general reference work which pulls the subject together and presents an overview. The History is organised by subject…
The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy
The Western tradition of philosophy began in Greece with a cluster of thinkers often called the Presocratics, whose influence has been incalculable. They include the early Ionian cosmologists, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, the Eleatics (Parmenides, Melissus, and Zeno), Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the atomists and the sophists. All these thinkers are discussed in this 1999 volume both as individuals and collectively in chapters on rational theology, epistem…
Aristotle and Hellenistic Philosophy
For the first (Aristotelian) part of these Book Notes I have singled out for discussion some notable recent books on logic, ontology, dialectical method and physics (reserving other recent publications dealing with Aristotelian ethics and political philosophy for one of this year's subsequent issues). The main thesis of Allan Back's Aristotle's Theory of Predication is that Aristotle was committed to an 'aspect theory' of predication (as opposed …
Assent and Argument
These ten essays on Cicero's Academic Books (the Academia and Lucullus) deal with various aspects of Academic scepticism, ancient epistemology, and the history of the Academy. The tradition from Socrates through to Galen is covered, with special emphasis on Carneades, Antiochus and, of course, Cicero himself.
Polyhistor
The early Stoics on the Immobility and Coherence of the Cosmos
The Stoic picture of a finite cosmos surrounded by an infinite void was bound to call for an explanation of the fact apparently taken for granted by the Stoics that such a cosmos was neither 'falling down' through the void nor being dispersed into it. Though, unfortunately, no verbatim Stoic fragments discussing the physical problems at stake here have been preserved, we do possess a number of accounts which summarize or paraphrase original early…
The early Stoics on the Immobility and Coherence of the Cosmos
The Stoic picture of a finite cosmos surrounded by an infinite void was bound to call for an explanation of the fact apparently taken for granted by the Stoics that such a cosmos was neither 'falling down' through the void nor being dispersed into it. Though, unfortunately, no verbatim Stoic fragments discussing the physical problems at stake here have been preserved, we do possess a number of accounts which summarize or paraphrase original early…
Chrysippus on Virtuous Abstention From Ugly Old Women (Plutarch, Sr 1038E–1039A)
Plutarch, at De Stoicorum repugnantiis 1038e–1039a (= SVF iii. 211), quotes and briefly discusses a fragment from Chrysippus' On Zeus (Περ⋯ το⋯ Δι⋯ς). This quotation is to some extent paralleled by the scrap, taken from Chrysippus' On the Gods (Περ⋯ Θε⋯ν), which immediately follows at SR 1039a (= SVF Hi. 212). Both quotations are again referred to by Plutarch at De communibus notitiis 1061a (a testimony also included in SVF iii. 212). Although th…
Posidonius' Conception of the Extra-Cosmic Void
Concepts of Space in Greek Thought
Concepts of space in Greek thought
Polyhistor
Observations on Plato’s Thrasymachus
Assent and Argument
These ten essays on Cicero's Academic Books (the Academia and Lucullus) deal with various aspects of Academic scepticism, ancient epistemology, and the history of the Academy. The tradition from Socrates through to Galen is covered, with special emphasis on Carneades, Antiochus and, of course, Cicero himself.
The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy
A full account of the philosophy of the Greek and Roman worlds from the last days of Aristotle (c.320 BC) until 100 BC. Hellenistic philosophy, for long relatively neglected and unappreciated, has over the last decade been the object of a considerable amount of scholarly attention. Now available in paperback, this 1999 volume is a general reference work which pulls the subject together and presents an overview. The History is organised by subject…
The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy
The Western tradition of philosophy began in Greece with a cluster of thinkers often called the Presocratics, whose influence has been incalculable. They include the early Ionian cosmologists, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, the Eleatics (Parmenides, Melissus, and Zeno), Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the atomists and the sophists. All these thinkers are discussed in this 1999 volume both as individuals and collectively in chapters on rational theology, epistem…
Aristotle and Hellenistic Philosophy
For the first (Aristotelian) part of these Book Notes I have singled out for discussion some notable recent books on logic, ontology, dialectical method and physics (reserving other recent publications dealing with Aristotelian ethics and political philosophy for one of this year's subsequent issues). The main thesis of Allan Back's Aristotle's Theory of Predication is that Aristotle was committed to an 'aspect theory' of predication (as opposed …
Hellenistic Philosophy
Book Notes
Aristotle
The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy
Part I. Introduction: 1. Sources Jaap Mansfeld 2. Chronology Tiziano Dorandi 3. Organization and structure of the philosophical schools Tiziano Dorandi Part II. Logic and Language: 4. Introduction Jonathan Barnes 5. Logic Jonathan Barnes and Susanne Bobzien 6. Language Dirk M. Schenkeveld Part III. Epistemology: 7. Introduction: the beginnings of Hellenistic epistemology Jacques Brunschwig 8. Epicurean epistemology Elizabeth Asmis 9. Stoic episte…
The Mechanism of Social Appropriation and its Role in Hellenistic Ethics
In the historiography of philosophy Hellenistic ethics has often been characterized as rather narrowly focused on the (good) life of the individual. As the cliche would have it, the demise of the Greek polis structure deprived the traditional political or social branches of ethics of their vitality and fostered the development of ethical systems that were solely concerned with individual happiness.
The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics
This unique volume offers an odyssey through the ideas of the Stoics in three particular ways: first, through the historical trajectory of the school itself and its influence; second, through the recovery of the history of Stoic thought; third, through the ongoing confrontation with Stoicism, showing how it refines philosophical traditions, challenges the imagination, and ultimately defines the kind of life one chooses to lead. A distinguished ro…
Stoic Theology
The object of Stoic theology was the governing principle of the cosmos, insofar as this could also be labeled 'god'. The Stoics accordingly regarded theology as part of physics, more specifically as that part which does not focus on the details and the purely physical aspects of cosmic processes, but rather on their overall coherence, teleology, and providential design, as well as on the question of how this cosmic theology relates to popular for…
Hellenistic Philosophy and Some Science
These book notes mainly deal with some recent books on Hellenistic philosophy, but the final section will be devoted to three books on ancient science (post-Hellenistic as well as Hellenistic). Let us begin with Hellenistic scepticism. Its students are well served by three recent books (one edition and two monographs) published by Oxford University Press. Aristocles of Messene is one of the most important sources for our knowledge of (or perhaps …
On Generation and Corruption I. 3
My contribution to this book deals with the ‘chapter’ in which Aristotle discusses coming to be simpliciter (simpliciter is the standard rendering of a1rt\ws-). This “chapter’ constitutes a relatively autonomous section of GC book I. To bring this out I provide an overview of its structure and argumentation in Section 1 below. Comments on particular points of detail will be appended here as footnotes. In the three sections that follow (2-4) the d…
Hellenistic and Early Imperial Philosophy
Before handing over the responsibility for the book notes section on Hellenistic philosophy to Christopher Gill, I would like to take the opportunity to clear away my backlog and to discuss, along with a few books that were actually sent to me recently, one or two works which I should probably have covered earlier, but which I irresponsibly kept for a later occasion. Together they make for a remarkably interesting set. I shall discuss them more o…
Aristotle
Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition
This will be my last set of booknotes on 'Aristotle': I am handing over this task to Ben Morison. Four of the books which I kept for this occasion concern aspects of the Aristotelian tradition (ancient, medieval and modern) rather than Aristotle himself, and I shall start with these. Robert Todd's annotated translation of Themistius' commentary on, or rather interpretative paraphrase of, Aristotle's Physics IV, published in Richard Sorabji's seri…
Stoics on souls and demons
Stoics On Souls And Demons
The Stoic cosmos is determined by a single perfectly rational and provident force, ordering everything for the best; its inherent order, which is intelligible to humans, is both the source of, and perfect example for, human rationality. This chapter investigates whether and to what extent anything like an appropriation of aspects of traditional demonology was effected in Stoicism. It charts the evidence, reconstruct the outlines of underlying the…
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