This is an attack on Aristotle showing that his misplaced drive toward the consistent application of his actualistic ontology (denying the reality of all potential things) resulted in many of his majo
A new interpretation of Aristotle's Analytics (the Prior and Posterior Analytics ) arguing that a non-deductive form of ancient mathematical analysis influenced Aristotle's thinking. Byrne (philo
Tracing the evolution of Plato's analogy between craft and virtue from Euthydemus and Gorgias through the central books of the Republic , argues that his middle dialogues develop and extend, rather th
In 1935 Edmund Husserl delivered his now famous lecture Philosophy and the Crisis of European Humanity, in which he argued that the misguided rationalism of modern Western science, dominated by the mo
This is a translation of Aristote et la thTologie des vivants immortels (1992) which argues that Aristotle used traditional ideas about the Greek gods to develop and defend his physical, metaphysica
Counters the long-standing, solemn interpretation of Plato’s dialogues with one centered on the philosophical and pedagogical significance of Socrates as a comic figure.
European and American scholars survey the work that is currently being done on the political philosophy of Aristotle. Five essays consider the possibility of grounding moral and political action on so
Bypassing Aristotle to look at evidence directly from the sixth century BCE, Hahn (philosophy, Southern Illinois U.-Carbondale) shows how the architects and their projects supplied their Ionian commun
Counters the long-standing, solemn interpretation of Plato’s dialogues with one centered on the philosophical and pedagogical significance of Socrates as a comic figure.