Philosophy and the Sciences in Antiquity

Herausgeber: Sharples, R W

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 2005. This book focuses on how the ancients themselves saw the issue of the relation between philosophy and the individual sciences. Contributions, from a distinguished international panel of scholars, cover the whole of antiquity from the beginnings of both philosophy and science to the later Roman Empire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780815391067
• ISBN-10: 0815391064
• Artikelnr.: 56849966

Autorenporträt

R.W. Sharples

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Introduction: Philosophy and the sciences in Antiquity, R.W. Sharples
Remarks on the differentiation of Early Greek philosophy, Andr aks
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 4th century BCE, Philip J. van der Eijk
Mathematics as a model of method in Galen, G.E.R. Lloyd
The music of philosophy in Late Antiquity, Dominic J. O'Meara
Music therapy in Neoplatonism, Anne Sheppard
Index of works and passages cited from ancient authors
General index.