Mantissa by Jonathan Barnes
This is the fourth (and last) volume of Jonathan Barnes' collected essays on ancient philosophy. As its title suggests, the twenty-three papers which it contains cover a wide range of topics. The first paper discusses the size of the sun, and the last looks at Plato and Aristotle in Victorian Oxford. In between come pieces on - inter alia - the theory of just war and the definition of comedy, the nature of the soul according to Plato and Aristotle and Zeno and Tertullian, atheism of Protagoras, Timaeus the Sophist (and his Platonic Lexicon) and the early history of Aristotle's writings, Nietzsche on Diogenes Laertius, the first Christian novel ... One of the pieces is new. The others have all been retouched, and some of them revised. Half a dozen were written in French and have been translated into English. The volume is kitted out with a bibliography and with two rather good indexes.The papers are, in parts at least, well written, and some of them are mildly diverting: no-one with a nose for ancient philosophy will sniff at them.-
Early Greek Philosophy
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Improve Your Eyesight
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Aristotle
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Cross-Curricular Learning 3-14
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The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle
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Applying Cross-Curricular Approaches Creatively
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Porphyry's Introduction
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The Presocratic Philosophers
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Persuasion
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Doctor Who: Once and Future: The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50 (Special Edition), CD
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Torchwood #68 - The Empire Man
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Torchwood #45 The Crown
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The Ordeals of Sherlock Holmes
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Positive Pedagogy across the Primary Curriculum
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The Somnambulist
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The Domino Men
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Articles on Aristotle
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Logic and the Imperial Stoa
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Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Prior Analytics 1.1-7
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The Ontological Argument
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L' L'oeuvre de David l'Invincible et la transmission de la pensée grecque dans la tradition arménienne et syriaque
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Science and Speculation
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Method and Metaphysics
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Presocratics-Arg Philosophers
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The War Master: Future Phantoms
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The Toils of Scepticism
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Strength and Weakness at the Interface
Jonathan Barnes taught at Oxford for 25 years, being a Fellow first of Oriel and then of Balliol. He then spent eight years at the University of Geneva, before becoming Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the Sorbonne. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His many publications include The Ontological Argument (Macmillan, 1972); Aristotle's Posterior Analytics (Clarendon Press, 2nd edition 1993); Aristotle (OUP, 1982); The Complete Works of Aristotle (Princeton UP, 1984); The Modes of Scepticism (with J. Annas; CUP, 1985); Early Greek Philosophy (Penguin, 1987); The Toils of Scepticism (CUP, 1990); The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle (CUP, 1995); Porphyry: Introduction (Clarendon Press, 2003); Truth, etc. (Clarendon Press, 2007); Method and Metaphysics (OUP, 2011); Logical Matters (OUP, 2012); and Proof, Knowledge, and Scepticism (OUP, 2014).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198709282 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198709285 |
| Title | Mantissa |
| Author | Jonathan Barnes |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2015-01-15 |
| Number of pages | 784 |
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