Themes in Neoplatonic and Aristotelian Logic: Order, Negation, and Abstraction FROM THE PUBLISHER
"Were the most serious philosophers of the millennium A.D. 200 to A.D. 1200 just confused mystics? This book shows that such was not the case. John Martin rehabilitates Neoplatonism, founded by Plotinus and brought into Christianity by St. Augustine." Showing Neoplatonism to be significantly richer in its logical and philosophical ideas than it is usually given credit for, this book will be of interest not just to historians of logic, but to philosophers, logicians, linguists, and theologians.
SYNOPSIS
Neoplatonism dominated western philosophy for a millennium, says Martin (U. of Cincinnati), but it is virtually ignored by Anglo-American philosophy, which tends to think of it as essentially confused on an elementary level. He offers nine essays—some new and some previously published—with another view. Arranged in chronological order of the philosophers discussed, they consider Aristotle's natural deduction reconsidered, a tense logic for Boethius, Proclus on the Neoplatonic syllogistic, Ammonius on the canons of Proclus, Aristotle and Ockham on privative negation, and other topics. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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