Theoria, praxis, and the contemplative life after Plato and Aristotle /

Studies of the notion of theoria and of the contemplative life have often been restricted to Plato and Aristotle. This volume shows that aspirations to contemplation and the life of the intellect survived long after the classical period, turning into topics of heated debates, powerful arguments and...

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Other Authors: Bénatouïl, Thomas., Bonazzi, Mauro, 1973-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden : BRILL, 2012.

Series: Philosophia Antiqua 131.
Philosophia Antiqua Online, ISBN: 9789004319752.

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Call Number: B398.C64 T44 2012

Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter /
  • Thomas Bénatouïl and Mauro Bonazzi
  • Θεωρια and Βιοσ Θεωρητικοσ from the Presocratics to the End of Antiquity: An Overview /
  • T. Bénatouïl and M. Bonazzi
  • Théophraste: Les Limites Éthiques, Psychologiques et Cosmologiques de la Contemplation /
  • Thomas Bénatouïl
  • Απλανησ Θεωρια. Einige Aspekte der Epikureischen Vorstellung vom Βιοσ Θεωρητικοσ /
  • Michael Erler
  • Cicéron et le problème des genres de vie: une problématique de la voluntas? /
  • Carlos Lévy
  • Seneca and the Contemplatio Veri De otio and Epistulae morales /
  • Margaret Graver
  • Beyond the Theoretikos Bios: Philosophy and Praxis in Sextus Empiricus /
  • Emidio Spinelli
  • La contemplation chez Philon d'Alexandrie /
  • Valéry Laurand
  • Theoria and Praxis: On Plutarch's Platonism /
  • Mauro Bonazzi
  • The Theoretikos Bios in Alcinous /
  • David Sedley
  • Plotinus and Porphyry on the Contemplative Life /
  • Alessandro Linguiti
  • Damascius on the Contemplative Life /
  • Gerd Van Riel
  • Leah and Rachel as Figures of the Active and the Contemplative Life in Augustine's Contra Faustum Manichaeum /
  • Giovanni Catapano
  • Maximus Confessor on Theory and Praxis A Commentary on Ambigua Ad Johannem VI (10) 1-19 /
  • Carlos Steel
  • Bibliography /
  • Thomas Bénatouïl and Mauro Bonazzi
  • Indexes /
  • Thomas Bénatouïl and Mauro Bonazzi.