R W Sharples
Biographic Data
| ID | 1046352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R W Sharples |
| GIVEN NAMES | R W |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharples |
| SIGNATURE | SHARPLES R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6892-5059 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Philosophy and the Sciences in Antiquity
Preface Introduction: Philosophy and the sciences in Antiquity, R.W. Sharples Remarks on the differentiation of Early Greek philosophy, Andre Laks Aristotle on kind-crossing, R.J. Hankinson The place of zoology in Aristotle's natural philosophy, James G. Lennox Between the Hippocratics and the Alexandrians: medicine, philosophy and science in the fourth century BCE, Philip J. van der Eijk Mathematics as a model of method in Galen, G.E.R. Lloyd Th…
Perspectives on Greek Philosophy: S. V. Keeling Memorial Lectures in Ancient Philosophy 1992-2002
Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics
This study gives a comprehensive and readable account of the principal doctrines of the Stoics, Epicureans and various sceptical traditions from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC to about 200 AD. The discussion is arranged by topics, rather than schools, in order to bring out the underlying issues and make clear what the different schools have in common and how they differ. At the same time, the coherence of each system as a whole is emp…
Alexander on Physics 2.9
In this paper, Bob Sharples considers a report regarding Alexander in Simplicius’Physics commentary, which touches on the problem of hypothetical necessity and how it relates to unqualified necessity. Simplicius seems to think that for Alexander, necessity imposed by matter is not purposive. This is why bricks do not necessarily give rise to a brick house. He here exploits the genuinely Aristotelian idea that form and end account for the matter, …
Particulars in Greek philosophy: The seventh S.V. Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: An Introduction and Collection of Sources in Translation
This book provides a collection of sources, many of them fragmentary and previously scattered and hard to access, for the development of Peripatetic philosophy in the later Hellenistic period and the early Roman Empire. It also supplies the background against which the first commentator on Aristotle from whom extensive material survives, Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. AD 200), developed his interpretations which continue to be influential even …
Peripatetic philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200: An Introduction and Collection of Sources in Translation
This book provides a collection of sources, many of them fragmentary and previously scattered and hard to access, for the development of Peripatetic philosophy in the later Hellenistic period and the early Roman Empire. It also supplies the background against which the first commentator on Aristotle from whom extensive material survives, Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. AD 200), developed his interpretations which continue to be influential even …
Fate, prescience and free will
© Cambridge University Press 2009. The reconciliation of divine foreknowledge and human freedom is the culmination of the Consolation of Philosophy. Boethius' is the most persuasive attempt in Greco-Roman antiquity to solve the problem, and the basis for subsequent medieval discussion. Whether it is successful, and whether the issue is now of any interest except as a philosophical exercise, may be questioned; Boethius' treatment is however of gre…
Habent sua fata libelli: Aristotle’s Categories in the first century BC
A re-examination of the question why, in the revival of interest, in the first century BC in Aristotle’s esoteric works, as opposed to his doctrines, the work Categories played so large a part. The answers suggested are that the work aroused interest just because it did not easily fit into the standard Hellenistic divisions of philosophy and their usual agendas, and that, more than Aristotle’s other works with the possible exception of the Metaph…
Xxxiii - Peripatetics on Soul and Intellect
Journal Article XXXIII - PERIPATETICS ON SOUL AND INTELLECT Get access ROBERT W. SHARPLES ROBERT W. SHARPLES University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 50, Issue Supplement_94_Part_2, June 2007, Pages 607–620, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2007.tb02452.x Published: 20 January 2014
Xxxii - Peripatetics on Fate and Providence
Xxvi - Aristotle's Exoteric and Esoteric Works: Summaries and Commentaries
XXVI - ARISTOTLE'S EXOTERIC AND ESOTERIC WORKS: SUMMARIES AND COMMENTARIES Get access ROBERT W. SHARPLES ROBERT W. SHARPLES University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 50, Issue Supplement_94_Part_2, June 2007, Pages 505–512, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2007.tb02445.x Published: 20 January 2014
XXXV - Peripatetics on Happiness
Journal Article XXXV - PERIPATETICS ON HAPPINESS Get access ROBERT W. SHARPLES ROBERT W. SHARPLES University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 50, Issue Supplement_94_Part_2, June 2007, Pages 627–638, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2007.tb02454.x Published: 20 January 2014
Some Thoughts on Aristotelian Form: With Special Reference to Metaphysics Z 8
Argument The term “universal” is ambiguous; it can indicate either what actually exists in several instances, or what can so exist, even if it is actually exemplified in only one instance. The former sense implies the latter, but not vice versa. It is suggested that form for Aristotle is universal in the latter sense, including what is part of the nature of a species but not individual accidents due to the matter, and that this may help to explai…
Implications of the New Alexander of Aphrodisias Inscription
The new inscription dedicated to his father by the Aristotelian commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias does not help us in establishing his dates more precisely. It does, however, show conclusively for the first time that his post was at Athens, and strongly suggests that at the end of the second century AD the term diadokhos ‘successor’ was applied to the imperially appointed holders of the chairs of philosophy at Athens. It also provides us with …
Alexander of Aphrodisias: What Is a Mantissa
Journal Article ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS: WHAT IS A MANTISSA? Get access R. W. SHARPLES R. W. SHARPLES University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 47, Issue Supplement_83_Part_1, January 2004, Pages 51–69, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2004.tb02295.x Published: 22 February 2011
Evidence for Theophrastus on Hair, on Secretion, on Wine and Olive-Oil
[Aristotle], Problemata inedita books 2–3 Bussemaker (of which the former = [Alexander of Aphrodisias, Problemata book 4 Usener) includes some thematically grouped sections which include a large number of items also found in the [Aristotle] Problems included in Bekker's edition, and others which do not. The subjects of some of the latter correspond to the titles of three lost works by Theophrastus. Given the use of works by Theophrastus in the Be…
Threefold Providence: The History and Background of a Doctrine
Journal Article THREEFOLD PROVIDENCE: THE HISTORY AND BACKGROUND OF A DOCTRINE Get access R. W. Sharples R. W. Sharples University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 46, Issue Supplement_78, January 2003, Pages 107–127, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2003.tb02137.x Published: 22 February 2011
Aristotelian Theology After Aristotle
Post-Hellenistic Philosophy: A Study of Its Development from the Stoics to Origen
Book Review| October 01 2002 Post-Hellenistic Philosophy: A Study of Its Development from the Stoics to Origen G. R. Boys-Stones, Post-Hellenistic Philosophy: A Study of Its Development from the Stoics to Origen. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 241. R.W. Sharples R.W. Sharples Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (4): 573–575. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-4-573 Cite…
The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy
Book Review| January 01 2002 THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHY THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHY. Edited by Keimpe Algra, Jonathan Barnes, Jaap Mansfeld, and Malcolm Schofield. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xix, 916. R. W. Sharples R. W. Sharples Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (1): 101–105. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-1-101 Cite…
Post-Hellenistic Philosophy: A Study of Its Development from the Stoics to Origen
This book traces, for the first time, a revolution in philosophy which took place during the early centuries of our era. It reconstructs the philosophical basis of the Stoics' theory that fragments of an ancient and divine wisdom could be reconstructed from mythological traditions, and shows that Platonism was founded on an argument that Plato had himself achieved a full reconstruction of this wisdom, and that subsequent philosophies had only reg…
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…
A Glossary Attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias
A GLOSSARY ATTRIBUTED TO ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS SOPHIA KAPETANAKI, SOPHIA KAPETANAKI Athens University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ROBERT W. SHARPLES ROBERT W. SHARPLES Athens University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 44, Issue 1, December 2000, Pages 103–143, https://doi.org…
Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics: An Introduction to Hellenistic Philosphy
Alexander of Aphrodisias on Divine Providence: Two Problems
The position on the question of divine providence of the Aristotelian commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. A.D. 200) is of particular interest. It marks an attempt to find a via media between the Epicurean denial of any divine concern for the world, on the one hand, and the Stoic view that divine providence governs it in every detail, on the other. 2 As an expression of such a middle course it finds a place in later classifications of vie…
Cicero's Republic and Greek Political Theory1
Aristotelian and Stoic Conceptions of Necessity in the De Fato of Alexander of Aphrodisias
1 Supplementum Aristotelicum II.ii 164-212, ed. I. Bruns, Berlin 1892; cf. also pp. 169-186 Bruns of the de anima libri mantissa, in Supplementum Aristotelicum II.i (1887). All references will be to these editions. On the interpretation of the de fato (as opposed to discussion primarily concerned with textual points) cf.: R. A. Pack, 'A Passage in Alexander of Aphrodisias relating to the theory of Tragedy', AJP 58 (1937) 418-436; E. Valgiglio, 'I…
Nemesius of Emesa and Some Theories of Divine Providence
Alexander of Aphrodisias, On Time
The treatise On Time by Alexander of Aphrodisias, the Aristotelian commentator (c.200 A.D.), has never been the subject of any detailed philosophical study, in spite of the interest of its subject matter and the importance of its author. It enables us to see how Aristotle's theory of time was handled and modified by one of the most important of his ancient followers; and it is also of significance as one stage in the series of discussions of time…
Habent sua fata libelli: Aristotle’s Categories in the first century BC
A re-examination of the question why, in the revival of interest, in the first century BC in Aristotle’s esoteric works, as opposed to his doctrines, the work Categories played so large a part. The answers suggested are that the work aroused interest just because it did not easily fit into the standard Hellenistic divisions of philosophy and their usual agendas, and that, more than Aristotle’s other works with the possible exception of the Metaph…
Implications of the New Alexander of Aphrodisias Inscription
The new inscription dedicated to his father by the Aristotelian commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias does not help us in establishing his dates more precisely. It does, however, show conclusively for the first time that his post was at Athens, and strongly suggests that at the end of the second century AD the term diadokhos ‘successor’ was applied to the imperially appointed holders of the chairs of philosophy at Athens. It also provides us with …
Evidence for Theophrastus on Hair, on Secretion, on Wine and Olive-Oil
[Aristotle], Problemata inedita books 2–3 Bussemaker (of which the former = [Alexander of Aphrodisias, Problemata book 4 Usener) includes some thematically grouped sections which include a large number of items also found in the [Aristotle] Problems included in Bekker's edition, and others which do not. The subjects of some of the latter correspond to the titles of three lost works by Theophrastus. Given the use of works by Theophrastus in the Be…
Threefold Providence: The History and Background of a Doctrine
Journal Article THREEFOLD PROVIDENCE: THE HISTORY AND BACKGROUND OF A DOCTRINE Get access R. W. Sharples R. W. Sharples University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 46, Issue Supplement_78, January 2003, Pages 107–127, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2003.tb02137.x Published: 22 February 2011
A Glossary Attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias
A GLOSSARY ATTRIBUTED TO ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS SOPHIA KAPETANAKI, SOPHIA KAPETANAKI Athens University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ROBERT W. SHARPLES ROBERT W. SHARPLES Athens University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 44, Issue 1, December 2000, Pages 103–143, https://doi.org…
Plato, Plotinus, and Evil
L'A. etudie le traite de Plotin sur la providence, divise par Porphyre en deux chapitres des «Enneades», qui tente de facon insatisfaisante de resoudre le probleme du mal tel qu'il se pose depuis l'Antiquite classique. Depuis Platon et les Stoiciens, il s'agit en effet de comprendre l'imperfection du monde physique et la mechancete des hommes
Epicurus, Carneades, and the Atomic Swerve
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Soft Determinism and Freedom in Early Stoicism
In her paper 'Freedom, Causality, Fatalism and early Stoic philosophy Dr. Sophie Botros challenges assumptions that have perhaps too readily been taken for granted in recent discussions, and makes important suggestions about the perspective from which we should approach Stoic thought on these topics. It is therefore all the more necessary to examine her conclusions and consider whether they are all equally convincing. B. is right to emphasise (p.…
Ambiguity and Opposition: Alexander of Aphrodisias, Ethical Problems 11
Some Medieval and Renaissance Citations of Theophrastus
Aristotle and Necessity: A Clarification
Journal Article ARISTOTLE AND NECESSITY: A CLARIFICATION Get access R.W. Sharples R.W. Sharples University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 31, Issue 1, December 1984, Pages 197–198, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1984.tb00543.x Published: 12 March 2010
On Fire in Heraclitus and in Zeno of Citium
In a recent discussion note1 C. D. C. Reeve investigates the reasons for Heraclitus assigning a primary position to fire, as contrasted with the other substances like earth and water which go to make up the physical universe. (I shall henceforth refer to these substances as ‘elements‘; the term is strictly incorrect for Heraclitus, in that the substances can change into one another, but it is a convenient form of shorthand.) Reeve considers and r…
An Ancient Dialogue on Possibility; Alexander of Aphrodisias, Quaestio 1.4
Traduction et commentaire de la Question 1.4 d'Alexandre d'Aphrodise d'apres l'edition grecque d'I. Bruns. L'A. montre qu'Alexandre critique le determinisme par un argument repris plus tard par ukasiewicz (si tout ce qui arrive est on ne peut distinguer ni entre necessaire, possible et actuel, ni entre impossible, necessaire et contre-factuel). Il analyse en detail le paradoxe de la Bataille navale et sa formulation chez Alexandre et fournit, pou…
Alexander of Aphrodisias: Problems About Possibility I
Journal Article ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS: PROBLEMS ABOUT POSSIBILITY I Get access R.W. Sharples R.W. Sharples University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 29, Issue 1, December 1982, Pages 91–108, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1982.tb00518.x Published: 12 March 2010
If What Is Earlier, Then of Necessity What Is Later”: Some Ancient Discussions of Aristotle, De Generatione Et Corruptione 2.11
Journal Article “IF WHAT IS EARLIER, THEN OF NECESSITY WHAT IS LATER”?: SOME ANCIENT DISCUSSIONS OF ARISTOTLE, DE GENERATIONE ET CORRUPTIONE 2.11 Get access R.W. Sharples R.W. Sharples University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 26, Issue 1, December 1979, Pages 27–44, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1979.tb00493.x Published: 12 March…
Alexander of Aphrodisias, De Fato: Some Parallels
As was first pointed out by Gercke, there are close parallels, which clearly suggest a common source, between Apuleius, de Platone 1.12, the treatise On Fate falsely attributed to Plutarch, Calcidius' excursus on fate in his commentary on Plato's Timaeus , and certain sections of the treatise de Natura hominis by Nemesius. Gercke traced the doctrines common to these works to the school of Gaius; recently however Dillon has pointed out that, while…
Responsibility and the Possibility of More Than One Course of Action: A Note on Aristotle De Caelo II.12
Journal Article RESPONSIBILITY AND THE POSSIBILITY OF MORE THAN ONE COURSE OF ACTION: A NOTE ON ARISTOTLE DE CAELO II.12 Get access R.W. Sharples R.W. Sharples University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 23, Issue 1, December 1976, Pages 69–72, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1976.tb00353.x Published: 12 March 2010
Responsibility, Chance and Not - Being
Der Aristotelismus bei den Griechen: Band 1: Die Renaissance des Aristotelismus im I. Jh. v. Chr.
Aristotelian and Stoic Conceptions of Necessity in the De Fato of Alexander of Aphrodisias
1 Supplementum Aristotelicum II.ii 164-212, ed. I. Bruns, Berlin 1892; cf. also pp. 169-186 Bruns of the de anima libri mantissa, in Supplementum Aristotelicum II.i (1887). All references will be to these editions. On the interpretation of the de fato (as opposed to discussion primarily concerned with textual points) cf.: R. A. Pack, 'A Passage in Alexander of Aphrodisias relating to the theory of Tragedy', AJP 58 (1937) 418-436; E. Valgiglio, 'I…
Responsibility, Chance and Not - Being
Responsibility and the Possibility of More Than One Course of Action: A Note on Aristotle De Caelo II.12
Journal Article RESPONSIBILITY AND THE POSSIBILITY OF MORE THAN ONE COURSE OF ACTION: A NOTE ON ARISTOTLE DE CAELO II.12 Get access R.W. Sharples R.W. Sharples University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 23, Issue 1, December 1976, Pages 69–72, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1976.tb00353.x Published: 12 March 2010
Alexander of Aphrodisias on Stoic Physics: A Study of the De Mixtione with Preliminary Essays, Text, Translation and Commentary
Alexander of Aphrodisias, De Fato: Some Parallels
As was first pointed out by Gercke, there are close parallels, which clearly suggest a common source, between Apuleius, de Platone 1.12, the treatise On Fate falsely attributed to Plutarch, Calcidius' excursus on fate in his commentary on Plato's Timaeus , and certain sections of the treatise de Natura hominis by Nemesius. Gercke traced the doctrines common to these works to the school of Gaius; recently however Dillon has pointed out that, while…
If What Is Earlier, Then of Necessity What Is Later”: Some Ancient Discussions of Aristotle, De Generatione Et Corruptione 2.11
Journal Article “IF WHAT IS EARLIER, THEN OF NECESSITY WHAT IS LATER”?: SOME ANCIENT DISCUSSIONS OF ARISTOTLE, DE GENERATIONE ET CORRUPTIONE 2.11 Get access R.W. Sharples R.W. Sharples University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 26, Issue 1, December 1979, Pages 27–44, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1979.tb00493.x Published: 12 March…
An Ancient Dialogue on Possibility; Alexander of Aphrodisias, Quaestio 1.4
Traduction et commentaire de la Question 1.4 d'Alexandre d'Aphrodise d'apres l'edition grecque d'I. Bruns. L'A. montre qu'Alexandre critique le determinisme par un argument repris plus tard par ukasiewicz (si tout ce qui arrive est on ne peut distinguer ni entre necessaire, possible et actuel, ni entre impossible, necessaire et contre-factuel). Il analyse en detail le paradoxe de la Bataille navale et sa formulation chez Alexandre et fournit, pou…
Alexander of Aphrodisias, On Time
The treatise On Time by Alexander of Aphrodisias, the Aristotelian commentator (c.200 A.D.), has never been the subject of any detailed philosophical study, in spite of the interest of its subject matter and the importance of its author. It enables us to see how Aristotle's theory of time was handled and modified by one of the most important of his ancient followers; and it is also of significance as one stage in the series of discussions of time…
Alexander of Aphrodisias: Problems About Possibility I
Journal Article ALEXANDER OF APHRODISIAS: PROBLEMS ABOUT POSSIBILITY I Get access R.W. Sharples R.W. Sharples University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 29, Issue 1, December 1982, Pages 91–108, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1982.tb00518.x Published: 12 March 2010
Alexander of Aphrodisias on Divine Providence: Two Problems
The position on the question of divine providence of the Aristotelian commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. A.D. 200) is of particular interest. It marks an attempt to find a via media between the Epicurean denial of any divine concern for the world, on the one hand, and the Stoic view that divine providence governs it in every detail, on the other. 2 As an expression of such a middle course it finds a place in later classifications of vie…
‘But Why has my Spirit Spoken with me thus?’: Homeric Decision-Making
It has been argued, above all by Bruno Snell, that there is lacking in the Homeric poems any notion of the ‘self as an integrated whole; the individual is regarded rather as an assembly of more or less independent psychic forces. There can thus, it is argued, be no making of decisions by individuals in the Homeric poems, because there is no such thing as a psychic whole which could decide; in his Scenes from Greek Drama, Snell argues not only tha…
Nemesius of Emesa and Some Theories of Divine Providence
Some Medieval and Renaissance Citations of Theophrastus
Aristotle and Necessity: A Clarification
Journal Article ARISTOTLE AND NECESSITY: A CLARIFICATION Get access R.W. Sharples R.W. Sharples University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 31, Issue 1, December 1984, Pages 197–198, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1984.tb00543.x Published: 12 March 2010
On Fire in Heraclitus and in Zeno of Citium
In a recent discussion note1 C. D. C. Reeve investigates the reasons for Heraclitus assigning a primary position to fire, as contrasted with the other substances like earth and water which go to make up the physical universe. (I shall henceforth refer to these substances as ‘elements‘; the term is strictly incorrect for Heraclitus, in that the substances can change into one another, but it is a convenient form of shorthand.) Reeve considers and r…
Ambiguity and Opposition: Alexander of Aphrodisias, Ethical Problems 11
Alexander of Aphrodisias on Fate
Soft Determinism and Freedom in Early Stoicism
In her paper 'Freedom, Causality, Fatalism and early Stoic philosophy Dr. Sophie Botros challenges assumptions that have perhaps too readily been taken for granted in recent discussions, and makes important suggestions about the perspective from which we should approach Stoic thought on these topics. It is therefore all the more necessary to examine her conclusions and consider whether they are all equally convincing. B. is right to emphasise (p.…
Cicero's Republic and Greek Political Theory1
Scepticism or Platonism
Plato: Meno
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