Product Description: C''est en 1967 qu''a paru le tome I de la présente édition des Topiques d''Aristote. Je n''entreprendrai pas d''excuser le retard avec lequel paraît ce tome II, consacré aux livres V-VIII du traité : il est proprement inexcusable...read more

Product Description: This collection makes available in English twelve essays by a distinguished French scholar, which contribute to the current scholarly and philosophical renewal of interest in the major Hellenistic schools of philosophy of the Greco-Roman world...read more

Product Description: Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In this volume drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge, major scholars take up basic topics in philosophy and science, offering an account of the extraordinary explosion of desire for knowledge in the classical Greek world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: La physique de Democrite, affirmant que tout n'est qu'atomes et vide, a souvent ete percue, des l'Antiquite, comme une vision de la nature austere et reductrice. Nous la connaissons d'ailleurs essentiellement par le truchement des critiques qui lui sont adressees...read more

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The five hundred years from 300 B.C. to A.D. 200 were a period during which Greek science made spectacular advances and Greek philosophy underwent dramatic changes. How much did the scientists take note of the philosophical issues bearing on their pursuits? What progress did the philosophers make with methodological and theoretical issues arising out of developments in science? What influence did philosophical criticism or philosophical ideas have on specific theories in medicine or mechanics, mathematics or astronomy? These are some of the questions discussed in this series of papers by the distinguished scholars who took part in the Conférence Hellenistique in Paris in 1980. The result is a broad-ranging and pioneering volume which will be of importance to scholars in the history and philosophy of science and to those whose interests lie in classical philosophy.