Hellenistic Philosophy Introductory

86 /-77 to /-87 are the bodies. Bodies have these three properties: shape, size, weight. Democritus said that there were two, si ...

Preface to the First Edition xiii this is essential or where we^1 propose new solutions to long-standing problems. Material adde ...

Short Fragments and Testimonia from Uncertain Works Simplicius Commentary on Aristotle's Physics 232a23 ff. CIAG 10.938.17-22 (2 ...

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88 /-87 to /-90 symmetry of their shapes and sizes and positions and orderings; and in this way it comes about that the origin o ...

Introduction The challenge of Hellenistic philosophy, which is at the same time its principal attraction, is the balance in it b ...

Short Fragments and Testimonia from Uncertain Works 89 and yielding of the other. Those which are not inseparable from that of w ...

xvi Introduction Aristotle's. The sceptics, both Academic and Pyrrhonian, did not, of course, advance their own doctrines, so a ...

90 /-90 to /-97 something else. The Epicureans, according to Alexander, relied on this argument above all else when they said th ...

Introduction xvii being which is pure form, by which he meant a form with no admixture of matter whatsoever. Because substance i ...

Short Fragments and Testimonia from Uncertain Works 91 together and [so] produced the nature of fluids. And since this [nature] ...

xviii Introduction Greek ethics; it was given clear expression by Plato and Aristotle. There is always a close correlation in Gr ...

92 Alexander of Aphrodisias Commentary on Aristotle's De Sensu 438a5 ff. CIAG 3.1, 34.18-22 (319 U) 1-98 to 1-105 [1-98] [Democr ...

Introduction xix Hellenistic sceptics rejected attempts to explain what is evident by what is non-evident, which is a generaliza ...

Short Fragments and Testimonia from Uncertain Works 93 Origen Against Celsus 1.24 (334 U) [1-102] As to this, one should also sa ...

XX Introduction own thought, Pyrrhonists looked outside the Socratic/ Academic tradition for the early 'founder' which every sch ...

94 /-105 to /-115 morphic images strike them while they sleep they supposed that some such anthropomorphic gods also existed in ...

xxi Abbreviations A: CIAG: O.K.: D.L.: Dox. Gr.: M: PH: Prep. Ev.: SVF: U: W-H: Arrighetti, Epicuro Opere Commentaria in Aristot ...

Short Fragments and Testimonia from Uncertain Works 95 Aetius 1.29.5 = Dox.Gr. p. 326 (375 U) [1-110] Epicurus says that all thi ...

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