A distinguished group of scholars of ancient philosophy here presents a systematic study of the twelfth book of Aristotle's Metaphysics. Lambda, which can be regarded as a self-standing treatise on substance, has been attracting particular attention in recent years, and was chosen as the focus of the fourteenth Symposium Aristotelicum, from which this volume derives. At the Sym...(展开全部)

The volumes of the Symposium Aristotelicum have become essential reference works for the study of Aristotle. In this twentieth volume, ten renowned scholars of ancient philosophy offer a running commentary on Aristotle's De Motu Animalium. It is in this text, one of his most intriguing works, that Aristotle sets out the general principles of animal locomotion. A philological an...(展开全部)

余纪元，1964年生，浙江诸暨人。美国布法罗纽约州立大学哲学系教授、古典学系兼职教授，中国人民大学讲座教授，山东大学讲座教授、兼职博士生导师，国际中国哲学学会主席。曾任英国牛津大学Wolfson学院及中国研究所研究员（1994-1997）、美国国家人文学科学中心研究员（2003-2004）。曾获布法罗纽约州立大学教育优秀奖、杰出学者奖。主要研究领域为古希腊哲学、中国古代哲学。近著有The Structure of Beingin Aristotle's Metaphysics（2003），The Ethic of Confucius and Aristotle： Mirrors of Virtue（2007），《（理想国）讲演录》（2008），《亚里士多德伦理学》（2011）等。

Plato's Symposium, written in the early part of the 4th century BC, is set at a drinking party (symposium) attended by some of the leading intellectuals of the day, including Aristophanes, the comic dramatist, Socrates, Plato's mentor, and Alcibiades, the brilliant but (eventually) treacherous politician. Each guest gives a speech in praise of the benefits of desire and its rol...(展开全部)

In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC at which the guests - including the comic poet Aristophanes and, of course, Plato's mentor Socrates - each deliver a short speech in praise of love. The sequence of dazzling speeches culminates in Socrates' famous account of the views of Diotima, a prophetess who taught him ...(展开全部)

Doing and Being confronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of Aristotle's philosophy: energeia and dunamis. While these terms seem ambiguous between actuality/potentiality and activity/capacity, Aristotle did not intend them to be so. Through a careful and detailed reading of Metaphysics Theta, Beere argues that we can solve the problem by rejecting both "a...(展开全部)

Doing and Being confronts the problem of how to understand two central concepts of Aristotle's philosophy: energeia and dunamis. While these terms seem ambiguous between actuality/potentiality and activity/capacity, Aristotle did not intend them to be so. Through a careful and detailed reading of Metaphysics Theta, Beere argues that we can solve the problem by rejecting both "a...(展开全部)