Denis O'Brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 4536115 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denis O'Brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denis |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Brien |
| SIGNATURE | BRIEN D O |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Agonistes
Reading Ancient Texts, Presocratics and Plato
« 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…
Life Beyond the Stars
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 …
The Winged Chariot
This volume delves into significant chapters of Platonic philosophy, encompassing its pre-Socratic origins and subsequent developments. It particularly focuses on the relationship between Plato's logico-semantics and his metaphysics. Plato's linguistic views are deeply rooted in his metaphysical system, and vice versa. The strong connection between the two and their development into the Middle Ages form a major subject of this volume. Other theme…
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
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…
Theories of Weight in the Ancient World
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
Russian Opinion
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
Russian Opinion
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
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 …
The Winged Chariot
This volume delves into significant chapters of Platonic philosophy, encompassing its pre-Socratic origins and subsequent developments. It particularly focuses on the relationship between Plato's logico-semantics and his metaphysics. Plato's linguistic views are deeply rooted in his metaphysical system, and vice versa. The strong connection between the two and their development into the Middle Ages form a major subject of this volume. Other theme…
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…
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 …
Life Beyond the Stars
« 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…
Reading Ancient Texts, Presocratics and Plato
Agonistes
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