Theophrastus Against the Presocratics and Plato: Peripatetic Dialectic in the 'De Sensibus'

Theophrastus against the Presocratics and Plato: Peripatetic Dialectic in the De sensibus......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Notice to the Reader......Page 14
1. Preface......Page 16
2. Reasons for a New Analysis......Page 19
3. Aims......Page 20
4. Excursus: Type of Investigation......Page 21
5. General Order of Exposition......Page 23
1. Theophrastus\' De sensibus (DS)......Page 26
1. Date and Transmission of the DS......Page 27
2. Content and General Structure of the DS......Page 30
2.1. Subject Matter: Part I (DS 1-2)......Page 31
2.2. Part II: On Sense Perception {DS 3-58)......Page 33
2.3. Part III: On Sense Objects {DS 59-92)......Page 37
2.4. Some Criteria of Selection......Page 39
3. Previous Interpretations......Page 40
4. Strategy......Page 44
2. Peripatetic Method: Dialectic and Doxography......Page 46
1. Interpreting Aristotle\'s Topics......Page 47
1.1. Dialectic as Training in Consistency......Page 49
1.2. Endoxa......Page 54
1.3. Conclusion: Critical Endoxography......Page 56
2. Applied Dialectic or Dealing with Doxai......Page 57
2.1. Phys. Δ......Page 59
2.2. The Search for Archai......Page 60
2.3. Summary......Page 70
3.1. Outline of Theophrastus\' Methodology......Page 71
3.2. Authorial Remarks Concerning Method......Page 75
3.3. Discussions of Doxai......Page 77
3.4. Conclusion......Page 85
3. Theories of Perception: Positions and Arguments......Page 86
1. Theophrastus and the Tradition......Page 87
1.1. Perception as Part of Physics......Page 89
1.2. Theophrastus on Perception......Page 93
(a) Importance of sense perception......Page 98
(b) The relationship senses-objects......Page 99
(c) The individual senses......Page 100
2. Tracing Theophrastus\' Views in the DS......Page 101
2.1. Technical Terms and Other Details......Page 102
2.2. Judgmental Elements......Page 105
3. Conclusion......Page 108
4. Theophrastus\' De sensibus and Plato\'s Timaeus......Page 110
1. Plato in DS......Page 113
1.1. Plato on Aisthêsis......Page 114
1.2. Form and Contents of Theophrastus\' Excerpts......Page 117
2. The Report (DS 83-86)......Page 123
3. Criticisms of Plato\'s Theory (DS 87-92)......Page 135
4. Theophrastus\' (In)dependence in Relation to Aristotle......Page 141
5. Conclusions......Page 144
Appendix: Reaction to a Recent Article [ch. 4, n.8.]......Page 151
1.1. Previous Interpretations......Page 155
1.2. Appeal to Authority: Qualified Doxai......Page 160
2. Aspects of Structure and Presentation......Page 161
2.1. Remarks on Structure in DS 1 -2......Page 162
2.2. Problems of Classification......Page 165
2.3. Attention for Detail: Plato and Democritus......Page 167
3. The Critical Arguments Against the Protagonists......Page 170
3.1. The Criticisms of Empedocles......Page 171
3.2. The Protagonist of the \'Contrast Party\': Anaxagoras......Page 184
4.1. The Criticisms of Diogenes (DS 39-48)......Page 193
4.2. Against Democritus (49-58)......Page 200
5. Argumentative Principles: Some Preliminary Results......Page 207
1. A Typology of Arguments......Page 210
1.1. Recurrent Argument Forms......Page 211
[i] Arguments Dealing with Definition & Terminology......Page 212
[ii] Arguments Using Endoxa......Page 214
[iii] Arguments Related to Coherence and Consistency......Page 217
[iv] Universal Validity......Page 219
[v] Causes......Page 221
[vi] \'Topical\' Cases......Page 222
1.2. Non Standard Arguments......Page 226
2. Dialectic and Archai......Page 230
2.1. Archê: Its Meaning and Use in Aristotle......Page 231
2.2. Archai in DS......Page 237
3.1. Archai and Dialectic in DS......Page 240
3.2. Two Exceptions? How to Rescue the Argument......Page 242
3.3. Conclusion......Page 244
4. Summary......Page 245
7. Epilogue: Results and Outlook......Page 249
1. Results: Importance of the Present Study......Page 250
2. Outlook: Doxography and What Remains to be Done......Page 254
Section 1: Some textual problems in the DS......Page 262
Section 2: A terminological problem in fr. 277Β FHSG? A cautionary note.......Page 263
Section 3: A (textual) problem in Aristotle\'s Topika ?......Page 264
(a) General Literature on Perception......Page 265
(b) De Sensibus (chronological order)......Page 266
Appendix C: (Qualified) Doxai in Theophrastus......Page 271
Appendix D: ἀρχή/ἀρχαί in Theophrastus......Page 273
Bibliography......Page 274
General Index......Page 288
Index Locorum......Page 294
Back Matter......Page 302