Denis O’brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denis O’brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denis |
| FAMILY NAME | O’brien |
| SIGNATURE | O’BRIEN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Château du Chalange 61390 Courtomer, France, Email: [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Platonic Art of Philosophy
This is a collection of essays written by leading experts in honour of Christopher Rowe, and inspired by his groundbreaking work in the exegesis of Plato. The authors represent scholarly traditions which are sometimes very different in their approaches and interests, and so rarely brought into dialogue with each other. This volume, by contrast, aims to explore synergies between them. Key topics include: the literary unity of Plato's works; the pr…
Lionel Robbins
Book Review| June 01 2013 Lionel Robbins Lionel Robbins. By Howson, Susan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xiii; 1,161 pp. Hardback$135.00. Denis O’Brien Denis O’Brien Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2013) 45 (2): 358–363. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2082775 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Denis O’Brien; Lionel Robbins. History of P…
Miscellanea Μονη in Empedocles
« Immortel » et « impérissable » dans le Phédon de Platon
To unravel the intricacies of the last argument of the Phaedo for the immortality of the soul, the reader has to peel away successive presuppositions, his own, Plato's and not least the presupposition that Plato very skilfully portrays as being shared by Socrates and his friends.A first presupposition is the reader's own. According to our modern ways of thinking, a soul that is immortal, if there is such a thing, is a soul that lives forever. Tha…
Un problème de syntaxe dans le Parménide de Platon (Parm. 137 a7-b4)
Socrates And Protagoras On Virtue
When Socrates has shaken himself free from the spell of Protagoras’ oratory (328 D 4–7), he fires off three seemingly simple questions in quick succession (329 c 6–E 4). Each question is cast in the form of a choice between two distinct theses. In each case, the two theses are introduced by the same pair of disjunctive particles [ineq]
The Lender-of-Last-Resort Concept in Britain
Research Article| March 01 2003 The Lender-of-Last-Resort Concept in Britain Denis O'Brien Denis O'Brien Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (1): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Denis O'Brien; The Lender-of-Last-Resort Concept in Britain. History of Political Economy 1 March …
Hermann Diels on the Presocratics
Stobaeus records a placitum where Empedocles says that the world is destroyed by the domination in turn of Love and of Strife. The placitum makes perfectly good sense in the context of Empedocles' belief that Love and Strife produce, in turn, a non-cosmic state of total unity (Love) and of total separation (Strife). But for over two hundred years scholars have been unable to hear that simple message. Sturz (1805) emended the text so as to make it…
La matière chez Plotin
The origin of matter is one of the last and greatest unsolved mysteries bedevilling modern attempts at understanding the philosophy of the Enneads. There are two stages in the production of Intellect and of soul. The One or Intellect produces an undifferentiated other, which becomes Intellect or soul by itself turning towards and looking towards the prior principle, with no possibility of the One's "turning towards" or "seeing" itself. But where …
Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic
The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Plotinus was the greatest philosopher in the 700-year peri…
Plotinus on matter and evil
Plotinus describes matter as "evil itself" (I.8.8.37-44; I.8.13.7-14) and as source of evil in the soul (I.8.14). However, those two apparently straightforward statements lead at once to paradox when we learn that matter is nonetheless derived from the One, through the mediation of soul (III.9.3.7-16; III.4.1). And that paradox is only heightened by Plotinus's repeated claim that matter, "primary evil" and "evil per se" (I.8.3.35-40), is also "no…
Empedocles Revisited
Theories of Weight in the Ancient World
Pondus meum amor meus ». Saint Augustin et Jamblique
L'image de la « pesanteur » de l'âme, évoquée dans une page célèbre des "Confessions", et reprise ailleurs dans l'œuvre de saint Augustin, suggère la possibilité d'un mouvement de l'âme dans les deux sens, vers « le bas » ou vers « le haut », c'est-à-dire vers le centre ou vers la périphérie de l'univers. Cette idée se retrouve chez Jamblique, dans un texte de son commentaire sur les "Catégories", conservé par Simplicius. Augustin affirme avoir é…
Customs Unions
Denis O'Brien is Professor of Economics at The University of Durham
Empedocles' Cosmic Cycle
Hitherto reconstructions of Empedocles' cosmic cycle have usually been offered as part of a larger work, a complete history of Presocratic thought, or a complete study of Empedocles. Consequently there has perhaps been a lack of thoroughness in collecting and sifting evidence that relates exclusively to the main features of the cosmic cycle
Empedocles' Cosmic Cycle
Hitherto reconstructions of Empedocles' cosmic cycle have usually been offered as part of a larger work, a complete history of Presocratic thought, or a complete study of Empedocles. Consequently there has perhaps been a lack of thoroughness in collecting and sifting evidence that relates exclusively to the main features of the cosmic cycle
The Lender-of-Last-Resort Concept in Britain
Research Article| March 01 2003 The Lender-of-Last-Resort Concept in Britain Denis O'Brien Denis O'Brien Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (1): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Denis O'Brien; The Lender-of-Last-Resort Concept in Britain. History of Political Economy 1 March …
Hermann Diels on the Presocratics
Stobaeus records a placitum where Empedocles says that the world is destroyed by the domination in turn of Love and of Strife. The placitum makes perfectly good sense in the context of Empedocles' belief that Love and Strife produce, in turn, a non-cosmic state of total unity (Love) and of total separation (Strife). But for over two hundred years scholars have been unable to hear that simple message. Sturz (1805) emended the text so as to make it…
La matière chez Plotin
The origin of matter is one of the last and greatest unsolved mysteries bedevilling modern attempts at understanding the philosophy of the Enneads. There are two stages in the production of Intellect and of soul. The One or Intellect produces an undifferentiated other, which becomes Intellect or soul by itself turning towards and looking towards the prior principle, with no possibility of the One's "turning towards" or "seeing" itself. But where …
Customs Unions
Denis O'Brien is Professor of Economics at The University of Durham
Empedocles' Cosmic Cycle
Hitherto reconstructions of Empedocles' cosmic cycle have usually been offered as part of a larger work, a complete history of Presocratic thought, or a complete study of Empedocles. Consequently there has perhaps been a lack of thoroughness in collecting and sifting evidence that relates exclusively to the main features of the cosmic cycle
Customs Unions
Denis O'Brien is Professor of Economics at The University of Durham
Theories of Weight in the Ancient World
Pondus meum amor meus ». Saint Augustin et Jamblique
L'image de la « pesanteur » de l'âme, évoquée dans une page célèbre des "Confessions", et reprise ailleurs dans l'œuvre de saint Augustin, suggère la possibilité d'un mouvement de l'âme dans les deux sens, vers « le bas » ou vers « le haut », c'est-à-dire vers le centre ou vers la périphérie de l'univers. Cette idée se retrouve chez Jamblique, dans un texte de son commentaire sur les "Catégories", conservé par Simplicius. Augustin affirme avoir é…
Empedocles Revisited
The Cambridge Companion to Plotinus
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Plotinus was the greatest philosopher in the 700-year peri…
Plotinus on matter and evil
Plotinus describes matter as "evil itself" (I.8.8.37-44; I.8.13.7-14) and as source of evil in the soul (I.8.14). However, those two apparently straightforward statements lead at once to paradox when we learn that matter is nonetheless derived from the One, through the mediation of soul (III.9.3.7-16; III.4.1). And that paradox is only heightened by Plotinus's repeated claim that matter, "primary evil" and "evil per se" (I.8.3.35-40), is also "no…
Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic
La matière chez Plotin
The origin of matter is one of the last and greatest unsolved mysteries bedevilling modern attempts at understanding the philosophy of the Enneads. There are two stages in the production of Intellect and of soul. The One or Intellect produces an undifferentiated other, which becomes Intellect or soul by itself turning towards and looking towards the prior principle, with no possibility of the One's "turning towards" or "seeing" itself. But where …
Hermann Diels on the Presocratics
Stobaeus records a placitum where Empedocles says that the world is destroyed by the domination in turn of Love and of Strife. The placitum makes perfectly good sense in the context of Empedocles' belief that Love and Strife produce, in turn, a non-cosmic state of total unity (Love) and of total separation (Strife). But for over two hundred years scholars have been unable to hear that simple message. Sturz (1805) emended the text so as to make it…
Socrates And Protagoras On Virtue
When Socrates has shaken himself free from the spell of Protagoras’ oratory (328 D 4–7), he fires off three seemingly simple questions in quick succession (329 c 6–E 4). Each question is cast in the form of a choice between two distinct theses. In each case, the two theses are introduced by the same pair of disjunctive particles [ineq]
The Lender-of-Last-Resort Concept in Britain
Research Article| March 01 2003 The Lender-of-Last-Resort Concept in Britain Denis O'Brien Denis O'Brien Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (1): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Denis O'Brien; The Lender-of-Last-Resort Concept in Britain. History of Political Economy 1 March …
Un problème de syntaxe dans le Parménide de Platon (Parm. 137 a7-b4)
« Immortel » et « impérissable » dans le Phédon de Platon
To unravel the intricacies of the last argument of the Phaedo for the immortality of the soul, the reader has to peel away successive presuppositions, his own, Plato's and not least the presupposition that Plato very skilfully portrays as being shared by Socrates and his friends.A first presupposition is the reader's own. According to our modern ways of thinking, a soul that is immortal, if there is such a thing, is a soul that lives forever. Tha…
Miscellanea Μονη in Empedocles
The Platonic Art of Philosophy
This is a collection of essays written by leading experts in honour of Christopher Rowe, and inspired by his groundbreaking work in the exegesis of Plato. The authors represent scholarly traditions which are sometimes very different in their approaches and interests, and so rarely brought into dialogue with each other. This volume, by contrast, aims to explore synergies between them. Key topics include: the literary unity of Plato's works; the pr…
Lionel Robbins
Book Review| June 01 2013 Lionel Robbins Lionel Robbins. By Howson, Susan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xiii; 1,161 pp. Hardback$135.00. Denis O’Brien Denis O’Brien Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2013) 45 (2): 358–363. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2082775 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Denis O’Brien; Lionel Robbins. History of P…
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