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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 62 by Victor Caston (editor), Rachana Kamtekar (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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## Abstract Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy provides, twice each year, a collection of the best current work in the field of ancient philosophy. Each volume features original essays that contribute to an understanding of a wide range of themes and problems in all periods of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, from the beginnings to the threshold of the Middle Ages. From its first volume in 1983, OSAP has been a highly influential venue for work in the field and has often featured essays of substantial length as well as critical essays on books of distinctive importance. Volume LXII contains discussions of Heraclitus’ treatment of opposites and rejection of explanatory fundamentality; why, according to Plato’s Protagoras, proximate pleasures appear greater than distant ones due to vivid representations; Plato’s Sophist on being and difference; whether Plato is a consequentialist; why, for Aristotle, scientific understanding is only of necessities; in what sense animals are self-movers and not in Aristotle’s Physics 8. 6; Seneca’s appeal to friendship and benefaction to explain how we progress towards the good; Hierocles use of the metaphor of concentric circles to explain the S

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Author
Victor Caston (editor), Rachana Kamtekar (editor)
Publisher
Oxford University PressOxford
Published
2023
Language
EN
ISBN
9780192885180
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Philosophy, Social Science

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