Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

L'Erario, Aldo, Grasping the Essence: Aristotle's Epistemological and Psychological Conception of the Knowledge of Essences. (Symposion 142) 330 S. 2024:8 (K. Alber, GW) <733-38>
ISBN 978-3-495-99253-1 hard ¥21,610.- (税込) EUR 94.00

This volume reconstructs Aristotle's view of the cognition of essences and engages with the current debate on it. Its main thesis is that the source of some current interpretive tensions lies with Aristotle himself, who holds both that knowledge of essence is gained a posteriori and that it is irreducible to perceptual experience. The aim of the book is to show, by contrasting Aristotle's philosophy of science and his philosophical psychology, that his position is coherent. While this strategy has often been neglected in more recent studies for methodological reasons, this study aims to show how fruitful it is.

Mesquita, Antonio Pedro, Aristotle on Natural Simultaneity of Relatives in the Categories. (Routledge Focus on Philosophy) 102 pp. 2024:10 (Routledge, UK) <733-39>
ISBN 978-1-03-290095-7 hard ¥13,856.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *

This book addresses the issue of natural simultaneity of relatives, discussed by Aristotle in Categories 7, 7b15- 8a12. Natural simultaneity is a form of symmetrical ontological dependence that holds between items that are not causally linked. In this section of the Categories, Aristotle introduces this topic in his analysis of relatives and maintains that although relatives seem to be for the most part simultaneous by nature, there seem to be some exceptions. He mentions two pairs of relatives as exceptions, namely the pairs knowledge/knowable and perception/perceptible, and argues at length for the priority of the second relative over the first one in each case. Through a close reading of this text, the author analyses Aristotle's arguments for the thesis of the exceptional character of these pairs and shows that all of them are unsuccessful in supporting the thesis. In order to draw this conclusion, the author highlights and carefully considers the properties that Aristotle is committed to attributing to relatives, taking into account the metaphysical framework of the Categories as well as their specificities within the set of nonsubstantial categories. Then, he shows that Aristotle's mature views on relatives in the Metaphysics can be construed as committing him to the rejection of such a thesis.Although the issue of natural simultaneity is just one of several that Aristotle considers in his discussion of relatives throughout Categories 7, it is a particularly relevant issue, since it involves a number of puzzles whose analysis allows for a better understanding of the very notion of relativity in Aristotle. This is the first book to explore this issue from the perspective of illuminating the Aristotelian views on relatives.Aristotle on Natural Simultaneity of Relatives in the Categories will appeal to scholars and graduate students working on Aristotle, ancient philosophy in general, and metaphysics.

Vogel, Moritz, Platons Philosophie der Zahlen: Eine systematische Rekonstruktion anhand der Dialoge Platons und der Pragmatien des Aristoteles. (Academia Philosophical Studies 87) 308 S. 2024:8 (Academia Vlg., GW) <733-40>
ISBN 978-3-9857218-4-9 paper ¥17,012.- (税込) EUR 74.00

Die Studie untersucht die Bedeutung von Zahlen in Platons Metaphysik und Philosophie der Mathematik mit dem Ziel einer Neubewertung der Platon-Zeugnisse bei Aristoteles. In eingehenden Interpretationen zu Platons Dialogen Politeia, Timaios und Parmenides wird die Bedeutung von Zahlen fuer die Bestimmtheit unseres Denkens herausgearbeitet. Auf dieser Grundlage werden die aristotelischen Zeugnisse zu Platons Prinzipien-, Zahlen- und Mathematiktheorie kritisch bewertet und neu interpretiert. Teilweise, z. B. hinsichtlich des Verhaeltnisses von platonischen Ideen und Zahlen, wird Aristoteles’ Darstellung substantiell korrigiert. Ausserdem weist die Studie detailliert Einfluesse der antiken Mathematik auf Platons philosophisches Denken nach.

Zavaliy, Andrei G., Motivation in the Ancient Greek Ethos: Punishment, Shame, and Moral Guilt. 310 pp. 2024:12 (Lexington Books, US) <733-41>
ISBN 978-1-66692-054-3 hard ¥24,816.- (税込) US$ 120.00

Gili, Luca, Aquinas on Change and Time: A Philosophical Analysis of the Commentary on Aristotle's "Physics" III and IV. (Europaea memoria: Studien und Texte zur Geschichte der europaeischen Ideen. Reihe I: Studien 138) 111 S. 2024:5 (Olms, GW) <733-36>
ISBN 978-3-487-16703-9 paper ¥8,966.- (税込) EUR 39.00

How can God know the future if future things are not actual? Would there be time if no change were to occur in the universe? What allows us to identify a direction in the order of changes independently of the series of instants in time? Aquinas answers all these questions in his commentary on Aristotle’s Physics. According to him, only entities located in the present exist. The present is nothing but the intermediate between past and future points on the line of time. Time, in turn, is ontologically dependent on change, but despite being its measure, it is mind-independent: time is what makes a changing thing suitable of being understood in a series of successive stages by a possible mind. This revolutionary commentary is nevertheless faithful to the nuances of Aristotle’s text and mark a milestone in the medieval reflection on the natural world. This book explores the core ideas outlined by Aquinas in his commentary on Aristotle’s Physics.

Glauthier, Patrick, The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome: Manilius, Seneca, Lucan, and the Aetna. 288 pp. 2025:2 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <733-37>
ISBN 978-0-19-778755-7 hard ¥20,473.- (税込) US$ 99.00