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Elias and David: Introductions to Philosophy with Olympiodorus: Introduction to Logic
Contributor(s): Gertz, Sebastian (Author), Griffin, Michael (Editor), Sorabji, Richard (Editor)
ISBN: 1350136441     ISBN-13: 9781350136441
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
OUR PRICE:   $44.50  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical
- Philosophy | Metaphysics
- Philosophy | Mind & Body
Dewey: 186.4
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.83 lbs) 272 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
 
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The three ancient philosophical introductions translated in this volume flesh out our picture of what it would have been like to sit in a first-year Philosophy course in ancient Alexandria.

Ammonius (AD 445-517/26) set up a new teaching programme in Alexandria with up to six introductions to the philosophy curriculum, which made it far more accessible, and encouraged its spread from Greek to other cultures. This volume's three introductory texts include one by his student Olympiodorus and one each by Olympiodorus' students Elias and David.

Elias' Introductions to Philosophy starts with six definitions of Philosophy, to which David adds replies to the sceptical question whether there is such a thing as Philosophy. Olympiodorus' text translated here is an Introduction to Logic, which is just one of the three introductions he wrote himself.

Contributor Bio(s): Griffin, Michael: - Michael Griffin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Classics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is co-editor of the series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle and editor of the volumes in that series on Olympiodorus' Life of Plato and Lectures on Plato's First Alcibiades.Sorabji, Richard: - Richard Sorabji is Research Professor of Philosophy at King's College London and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, UK. He is the author of many books, including Necessity, Clause and Blame, Matter, Space and Motion, and Time, Creation and the Continuum, all published by Bloomsbury, and general editor of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series.