1st Edition
Themes in Neoplatonic and Aristotelian Logic Order, Negation and Abstraction
By John N. Martin
Copyright 2004
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
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Were the most serious philosophers of the millennium 200 A.D. to 1200 A.D. just confused mystics? This book shows otherwise. John Martin rehabilitates Neoplatonism, founded by Plotinus and brought into Christianity by St. Augustine. The Neoplatonists devise ranking predicates like good, excellent, perfect to divide the Chain of Being, and use the predicate intensifier hyper so that it becomes a... Read more
Contents: Introduction: Neoplatonism; Algebra; Publication data; Aristotle's natural deduction reconsidered; Background ideas in natural deduction; The syllogistic; Soundness and completeness; Ecthesis and existence in the syllogistic: Existence, negation, and abstraction in the neoplatonic hierarchy; A neoplatonic logic of existence; Neoplatonic abstraction as negation; A tense logic for Boethius; Proclus on the logic of the ineffable; Proclus and the neoplatonic syllogistic; Ammonius on the canons of Proclus; All brutes are subhuman: Aristotle and Ockham on privative negation; Lukasiewicz' many-valued logic and neoplatonic scalar modality; Bibliography; Indexes.
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John N. Martin
