John Thorp

The Odyssey of Eidos

Philosophy

“Few concepts have been so central in our philosophical tradition, since its Greek origins, as that of eidos—‘form.’ This useful collection of papers is a set of soundings into that tradition. It ranges over a timespan of more than a millennium, from Plato to al-Farabi, and over a wide spectrum of subjects: metaphysics and theology, but also ethics, politics, physics, biology, and psychology: an odyssey indeed!”