Foreign thinker
Richard Sorabji
Richard SorabjiHistory of Ancient Philosophy and the Commentators on AristotleBritish
Ancient philosophy was not merely abstract theorizing; rather, it was a way of life and a continuous exercise for shaping the psyche and mastering the emotions.
Life and Thought
Sir Richard Sorabji is a distinguished historian of ancient philosophy and Honorary Professor at King's College London and the University of Oxford. He is the founder and director of the monumental Ancient Commentators on Aristotle translation project, which has played an unparalleled role in re-examining the transmission of ancient thought to the Islamic world and the Middle Ages. His foundational research on the ancient philosophy of mind, time, space, and Stoic moral philosophy is considered a key resource in the history of philosophy.
Sir Richard Sorabji is a renowned British philosopher and historian specializing in ancient and medieval philosophy. He pursued his higher education at the University of Oxford and, throughout his professional career, has taught and conducted research as a Professor of Philosophy at King's College London and as a visiting professor at prestigious universities such as Princeton and Oxford.
Sorabji's greatest and most enduring scholarly achievement is the management and founding of the international project 'Ancient Commentators on Aristotle'. By assembling over one hundred volumes of translations and critical editions of Greek, late antique, and early medieval commentaries on Aristotle's works, he revived an immense treasury that represents the missing link between ancient Greek philosophy, Islamic philosophy, and medieval Latin thought.
Sorabji's written research covers a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, including the examination of the concepts of time, space, and infinity in ancient physics, the analysis of theories of mind and sense perception in Plato and Aristotle, and in-depth studies of the emotions, moral development, and self-control in Stoic philosophy. His landmark works, such as Necessity, Cause and Blame, Animal Minds and Human Morals, and Emotion and Peace of Mind, are recognized as standard scholarly resources in their respective fields.
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