Readership: Students and scholars of ancient philosophy.
Jonathan Barnes, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Emeritus
Jonathan Barnes was educated at the City of London School and at Balliol College. For 25 years he taught at Oxford, 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); and Truth, etc. (Clarendon Press, 2007); with J. Annas, The Modes of Scepticism (CUP, 1985); Early Greek Philosophy (Penguin, 1987); The Toils of Scepticism (CUP, 1990); The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle (CUP, 1995); and Porphyry: Introduction (Clarendon Press, 2003). He lives in France.
Preface 1: Ancient philosophers 2: The history of philosophy 3: Philosophy within quotation marks? 4: Anglophone attitudes 5: Brentano's Aristotle 6: Heidegger in the cave 7: 'There was an old person from Tyre' 8: The Presocratics in context 9: Argument in ancient philosophy 10: Philosophy and dialectic 11: Aristotle and the methods of ethics 12: Metacommentary 13: An introduction to Aspasius 14: Parmenides and the Eleatic One 15: Reason and necessity in Leucippus 16: Plato's cyclical argument 17: Death and the philosopher 18: Aristotelian arithmetic 19: The principle of plenitude 20: 'Aristotle's opinion concerning destiny and what is up to us' 21: 'Belief is up to us' 22: The same again: the Stoics and eternal recurrence 23: Bits and pieces 24: Partial wholes 25: 'Drei Sonnen sahe ich': Syrianus and astronomy 26: Immaterial causes Bibliography Indexes
