Method and Metaphysics presents twenty-six essays in ancient philosophy by Jonathan Barnes, one of the most admired and influential scholars of his generation. The essays span four decades of his career, and are drawn from a wide variety of sources: many of them will be relatively unknown even to specialists in ancient philosophy. Several essays are now translated from the original French and made available in English for the first time; others have been substantially revised for republication here. The volume opens with eight essays about the interpretation of ancient philosophical texts, and about the relationship between philosophy and its history. The next five essays examine the methods of ancient philosophers. The third section comprises thirteen essays about metaphysical topics, from the Presocratics to the late Platonists. This collection will be a rich feast for students and scholars of ancient philosophy.
Jonathan Barnes has a BSc in Biological Sciences from the University of Sussex. He has been writing since the age of 21 and under a pseudonym has published four novels. He cam across the Bates method in 1983 and, as a wearer of glasses himself, decided to investigate it from a biologist's viewpoint. He found it logical and consistent, and since practising it has been able to improve his eyesight and discard his glasses.
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| Acknowledgements | p. viii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Ancient philosophers | p. 1 |
| The history of philosophy | p. 17 |
| Philosophy within quotation marks? | p. 23 |
| Anglophone attitudes | p. 43 |
| Brentano's Aristotle | p. 70 |
| Heidegger in the cave | p. 77 |
| 'There was an old person from Tyre' | p. 100 |
| The Presocratics in context | p. 125 |
| Argument in ancient philosophy | p. 143 |
| Philosophy and dialectic | p. 164 |
| Aristotle and the methods of ethics | p. 174 |
| Metacommentary | p. 195 |
| An introduction to Aspasius | p. 212 |
| Parmenides and the Eleatic One | p. 262 |
| Reason and necessity in Leucippus | p. 288 |
| Plato's cyclical argument | p. 303 |
| Death and the philosopher | p. 323 |
| Aristotelian arithmetic | p. 334 |
| The principle of plenitude | p. 364 |
| 'Aristotle's opinion concerning destiny and what is up to usÆ | p. 371 |
| 'Belief is up to us' | p. 394 |
| The same again: the Stoics and eternal recurrence | p. 412 |
| Bits and pieces | p. 429 |
| Partial wholes | p. 484 |
| 'Drei Sonnen sah ich…': Syrianus and astronomy | p. 510 |
| Immaterial causes | p. 540 |
| Bibliography | p. 561 |
| Index of Passages | p. 581 |
| General Index | p. 606 |
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Method and Metaphysics presents twenty-six essays in ancient philosophy by Jonathan Barnes, one of the most admired and influential scholars of his generation. The essays span four decades of his career, and are drawn from a wide variety of sources: ...
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Method and Metaphysics presents twenty-six essays in ancient philosophy by Jonathan Barnes, one of the most admired and influential scholars of his generation. The essays span four decades of his career, and are drawn from a wide variety of sources: many of them will be relatively unknown even to specialists in ancient philosophy. Several essays are now translated from the original French and made available in English for the first time; others have been substantially revised for republication here. The volume opens with eight essays about the interpretation of ancient philosophical texts, and about the relationship between philosophy and its history. The next five essays examine the methods of ancient philosophers. The third section comprises thirteen essays about metaphysical topics, from the Presocratics to the late Platonists. This collection will be a rich feast for students and scholars of ancient philosophy.
Jonathan Barnes has a BSc in Biological Sciences from the University of Sussex. He has been writing since the age of 21 and under a pseudonym has published four novels. He cam across the Bates method in 1983 and, as a wearer of glasses himself, decided to investigate it from a biologist's viewpoint. He found it logical and consistent, and since practising it has been able to improve his eyesight and discard his glasses.
| Acknowledgements | p. viii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Ancient philosophers | p. 1 |
| The history of philosophy | p. 17 |
| Philosophy within quotation marks? | p. 23 |
| Anglophone attitudes | p. 43 |
| Brentano's Aristotle | p. 70 |
| Heidegger in the cave | p. 77 |
| 'There was an old person from Tyre' | p. 100 |
| The Presocratics in context | p. 125 |
| Argument in ancient philosophy | p. 143 |
| Philosophy and dialectic | p. 164 |
| Aristotle and the methods of ethics | p. 174 |
| Metacommentary | p. 195 |
| An introduction to Aspasius | p. 212 |
| Parmenides and the Eleatic One | p. 262 |
| Reason and necessity in Leucippus | p. 288 |
| Plato's cyclical argument | p. 303 |
| Death and the philosopher | p. 323 |
| Aristotelian arithmetic | p. 334 |
| The principle of plenitude | p. 364 |
| 'Aristotle's opinion concerning destiny and what is up to usÆ | p. 371 |
| 'Belief is up to us' | p. 394 |
| The same again: the Stoics and eternal recurrence | p. 412 |
| Bits and pieces | p. 429 |
| Partial wholes | p. 484 |
| 'Drei Sonnen sah ich…': Syrianus and astronomy | p. 510 |
| Immaterial causes | p. 540 |
| Bibliography | p. 561 |
| Index of Passages | p. 581 |
| General Index | p. 606 |
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