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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Advisory Board
Contents
The World as a Harmony Philolaus’ Metaphysics of Harmonic Structures and the Hierarchy of Living Beings
1. Introduction
2. The logical relations of limiters, unlimiteds and harmonia
3. The ontological status and nature of harmonia
4. The nature of limiters and unlimiteds
5. Harmonia as explanatory model: an ontological application
6. The cosmos as a harmonic structure and the hierarchy of living beings
7. Conclusion
The Timaeus as Vehicle for Platonic Doctrine
Plato on Pleasures Mixed with Pains: An Asymmetrical Account
1. Whence cometh pain?
2. Fundamentals of the restoration model
3. General considerations in favour of the state view
4. Gorgias
5. Republic
6. Timaeus
7. Philebus
8. An apparent problem in the Phaedo
9. Conclusion
Being as Activity: A Defence of the Importance of Metaphysics 1048B18–35 for Aristotle’s Ontology
1. Text and translation
2. Meaning
3. Absence of the Passage from some manuscripts
4. The Passage and the Physics
5. The role of the Passage in Θ. 6
6. The role of the Passage in Book Θ
7. The role of the Passage in the Metaphysics as a whole
8. The Passage in the reception of the Metaphysics: the Greek tradition
9. The Passage in the reception of the Metaphysics: the Latin tradition
10. Conclusion
Sources of Doxastic Disturbance in Sextus Empiricus
1. Introduction
2. The pursuit and attainment of undisturbedness
3. Sources of doxastic disturbance
4. In search of a connection
5. Conclusion
Augustine’s Defence of Knowledge Against the Sceptics
1. Introduction
2. Academic scepticism and Augustine’s Contra Academicos
3. Knowledge of the external world
4. Mathematical knowledge and intelligible objects
5. Conclusion
Index Locorum
Notes for Contributors to Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
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