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The political animal in medieval philosophy : a philosophical study of the commentary tradition c.1260-c.1410
In The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy Juhana Toivanen investigates what medieval philosophers meant when they argued that human beings are political animals by nature. He analyses the notion of 'political animal' from various perspectives and shows its relevance to philosophical discussions concerning the foundations of human sociability, ethics, and politics. Medieval authors believed that social life stems from the biological and rational nature of human beings, and that collaboration with other people promotes prosperity and good life. Toivanen provides a detailed philosophical interpretation of this view across a wide range of authors, including unedited manuscript sources. As the first monograph-length study on the topic, The Political Animal sheds new light on this significant period in western political thought.
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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aristotle in Antiquity
To date, no comprehensive account has been published to explain the complex phenomenon of the reception of Aristotle's philosophy in Antiquity. This Companion fills this lacuna by offering broad coverage of the subject from Hellenistic times to the sixth century AD.
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Aristotle and the Arabic tradition
\"This volume of essays by scholars in ancient Greek, medieval, and Arabic philosophy examines the full range of Aristotle's influence upon the Arabic tradition. It explores central themes from Aristotle's corpus, including logic, rhetoric and poetics, physics and meteorology, psychology, metaphysics, ethics and politics, and examines how these themes are investigated and developed by Arabic philosophers including al-Kindمi, al-Fمarمabمi, Avicenna, al-Ghazمalمi, Ibn Bمajja and Averroes. The volume also includes essays which explicitly focus upon the historical reception of Aristotle, from the time of the Greek and Syriac transmission of his texts into the Islamic world to the period of their integration and assimilation into Arabic philosophy. This rich and wide-ranging collection will appeal to all those who are interested in the themes, development and context of Aristotle's enduring legacy within the Arabic tradition.\"-- Back cover.
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Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas
A rich examination of the influence of Aristotle and
Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce
In this book, Fran O'Rourke examines the influence of Aristotle
and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce, arguing that both thinkers
fundamentally shaped the philosophical outlook which pervades the
author's oeuvre. O'Rourke demonstrates that Joyce was a
philosophical writer who engaged creatively with questions of
diversity and unity, identity, permanence and change, and the
reliability of knowledge.
Beginning with an introduction to each thinker, the book traces
Joyce's discovery of their works and his concrete engagement with
their thought. Aristotle and Aquinas equipped Joyce with
fundamental principles regarding reality, knowledge, and the soul,
which allowed him to shape his literary characters. Joyce
appropriated Thomistic concepts to elaborate an original and
personal aesthetic theory.
O'Rourke provides an annotated commentary on quotations from
Aristotle that Joyce entered into his famous Early Commonplace Book
and outlines their crucial significance for his writings. He also
provides an authoritative evaluation of Joyce's application of
Aquinas's aesthetic principles.
The first book to comprehensively illuminate the profound impact
of both the ancient and medieval thinker on the modernist writer,
Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas offers readers a rich
understanding of the intellectual background and philosophical
underpinnings of Joyce's work.
A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian
D. G. Knowles
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Aristotle and Black Drama
Civil disobedience has a tattered history in the American story. Described by Martin Luther King Jr. as both moral reflection and political act, the performance of civil disobedience in the face of unjust laws is also, Patrice Rankine argues, a deeply artistic practice. Modern parallels to King's civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body challenges the normative assumptions of classical texts and modes of creation. This is a theater of civil disobedience.
Utilizing Aristotle's Poetics, Rankine ably invokes the six aspects of Aristotelian drama--character, story, thought, spectacle, song, and diction. He demonstrates the re-appropriation and rejection of these themes by black playwrights August Wilson, Adrienne Kennedy, and Eugene O'Neill. Aristotle and Black Drama frames the theater of civil disobedience to challenge the hostility that still exists between theater and black identity.
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Julius Caesar Scaliger, Renaissance reformer of Aristotelianism: a study of Exotericae Exercitationes
This monograph is the first to analyze Julius Caesar Scaliger's Exotericae Exercitationes (1557). Though hardly read today, the Exercitationes was one of the most successful philosophical treatises of the time, attracting considerable attention from many intellectuals with multifaceted religious and philosophical orientations. In order to make this massive late-Renaissance work accessible to modern readers, Kuni Sakamoto conducted a detailed textual analysis and revealed the basic tenets of Scaliger's philosophy. His analysis also enabled him to clarify the historical provenance of Scaliger's Aristotelianism and the way it subsequently influenced some of the protagonists of the \"New Philosophy.\" The author thus bridges the historiographical gap between studies of Renaissance philosophy and those of the seventeenth-century.
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