Richard Sorabji
Richard Rustom Sorabji Kharsedji ( born November 8, 1934 in Oxford ) is a British historian of philosophy for Ancient Philosophy and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at King's College London, of its reception is especially known for his exploration of Aristotle and in ancient times.
Life
Sorabji is the son of an Indian father and an English mother. After attending the Dragon School in Oxford and the Charterhouse School he served two years military service. Subsequently, he attended from 1955 to 1959 with a scholarship ( Cutler Boulter Scholarship ) Pembroke College, where he earned his degrees in Greek and Latin Literature (1957) and in ' Literae Humaniores ' (1959). As a result, Sorabji taught for a time at the Dragon School, before making his B.Phil. ( Habilitation ) under Gwil Owen and John Ackrill took off.
His first academic position was Sorabji in 1962 at Cornell University. In 1968 he became associate professor, while he was also working as the editor of the Philosophical Review. In 1970 he moved to King's College London, where he was appointed in 1981 as professor of ancient philosophy. Here he began his work on Aristotle with his first book, Aristotle on Memory (1972 ) and the co-editor of a four-volume edition with articles on Aristotle ( 1975-1979 ). In the 1980s, he dealt primarily with the ancient philosophy of physics and this released a trilogy with the titles Necessity, Cause and Blame (1980 ), Time, Creation, and the Continuum (1983 ), and Matter, Space, and Motion (1988).
In the years 1985 and 1986 was Sorabji president of the Aristotelian Society. In 1987 he founded the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Project, have been translated into the most Greek texts of ancient philosophy from the period 200 to 600 AD into English. Most are ancient comments on the works of Aristotle. By 2012, the book series reached 100 titles, including Sorabji has written a series of discharges. In addition, he has published a general introduction to the book series. In 1989 he became a member of the British Academy. In order to teach philosophy to a wider audience, he created between 1989 and 1991, King's College Centre for Philosophical Studies. Sorabji was from 1991 to 1996 director of the Institute of Classical Studies and 1996-1999 British Academy Research Professor at Oxford. In 1996 and 1997 he held the Gifford Lectures, published under the title Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic agitation were released to Christian Temptation in 2000.
Sorabji 1997 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was awarded in 1999 for his contribution to research on the ancient philosophy of the Order of the British Empire. After his retirement in 2000 Sorabji accepted the position of a professor of rhetoric at Gresham College. Other teaching activities he perceived at the University of Texas at Austin and at New York University. He is an honorary member of Wolfson College and continues to work as a research fellow at King 's College.
Writings
- Aristotle on Memory, 1972
- Necessity, Cause and Blame, 1980
- Time, Creation and the Continuum, 1983
- Matter, Space and Motion, 1988
- Animal Minds and Human Morals, 1993
- Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 2000
- Self. Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality, Life, and Death, 2005
- Opening Doors: The Untold Story of Cornelia Sorabji, 2010
- The Stoics and Gandhi: Modern experiment on Ancient Values, 2012
- Perception, Conscience and Will in Ancient Philosophy, 2013
- Articles on Aristotle, with Jonathan Barnes and Malcolm Schofield, Volume 1: Science, Volume 2: Ethics and Politics, Volume 3: Metaphysics, Volume 4: Psychology and Aesthetics ( 1975-79 )
- Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science, 1987; 2 ext. ed in 2008
- Aristotle Transformed, 1990
- Aristotle and After, 1997
- With Robert W. Sharples, The Philosophy of Commentators, 200-400 AD
- With D. Rodin, The Ethics of War: Shared Problems in Different Traditions, 2006