Robert W. Sharples is Emeritus Professor of Classics at University College London. He has published extensively on the Peripatetic tradition in antiquity, notably in the context of the Theophrastus Project and of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series. He is currently a member of the team working on the decipherment of a commentary on Aristotle preserved in the Archimedes Palimpsest. He has also published a successful textbook, Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics (1996), and a number of editions of ancient texts.
Introduction
1. People
2. The rediscovery of Aristotle's works?
3. A Hellenistic account of Aristotle's philosophy
4. Philosophy and rhetoric
5. The starting-point and parts of philosophy
6. Commentaries: logic and ontology
7. The categories: (i) placement and title
8. The categories: (ii) words or things or words as signifying things?
9. The categories: (iii) per se and relative: ten categories or two?
10. The categories: (iv) time and place
11. On interpretation
12. Ontology: form and matter
13. Logic
14. Theory of knowledge. Ethics
15. An account of Peripatetic ethics: Stobaeus, 'doxography C'
16. Emotions
17. The primary natural things: oikei¿sis
18. Bodily and external goods and happiness. Physics
19. The nature of time and place
20. The eternity of the world
21. The heavens
22. God and providence
23. Fate, choice and what depends on us
24. Soul
25. Generation
26. Sensation
27. Intellect
Bibliography
Index of sources
Index of passages cited
Index of personal names (ancient)
General index.
