Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy I
John P. Anton, Albany: Suny Press, 1971
Description
The essays in this volume treat a wide variety of fundamental topics and problems in ancient Greek philosophy. The scope of the section on pre-Socratic thought ranges over the views which these thinkers have on such areas of concern as religion, natural philosophy and science, cosmic periods, the nature of elements, theory of names, the concept of plurality, and the philosophy of mind. The papers dealing with the Platonic dialogues examine with unusual care a great number of central themes and discuss them in considerable depth: problems in language and logic, myth, reason, hypothesis, eros, friendship, reason, morality, society, art, the nature of soul, and immortality; in addition, they offer fresh discussions on a number of basic morphological, methodological, and philological issues related to philosophical arguments and introduce new aspects for a critical reexamination of controversies surrounding the doctrines and the authenticity of certain Platonic works. The essays on the philosophy of Aristotle are closely reasoned analyses of such basic themes as the universality of the sensible, the nature of kinesis, the problem of future contingencies, the meaning of qualitative change, the doctrine of phantasia, the essence of intelligence and the metaphysical foundations for the ethical life. The essays on post-Aristotelian developments in ancient philosophy offer challenging and well-documented discussions on topics in the history of ancient logic, categorical thought, the ethical doctrines of ancient Scepticism, epistemological issues in the physical theory of the Epicureans, and basic concepts in the metaphysics of the neo-platonists.
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Table of contents
Introduction
Journal Abbreviations
- Pre-Socratics
Religion and Natural Philosophy in Empedocle’s Doctrine of the Soul – Charles H. Kahn
Cosmic Periods in the Philosophy of Empedocles – Edwin L. and Minar, Fr.
Mind’s Commitment to the Real: Parmenides B8. 34-41 – Alexander P. D. Mourelatos
The Problem of Anaxagoras – Margaret E. Reesor
Empirical Aspects of Xenophanes’ Theology – H. A. T. Reiche
Anaximander and the Problem of the Earth’s Immobility – John Robinson
A Zenonian Argument Against Plurality – Gregory Vlastos
Parmenides on Names – Leonard Woodbury
2. Plato
The Argument from Opposities in Republic V – R. E. Allen
Gorgias and the Socratic Principle Nemo Sua Sponte Peccat – Guido Calogero
Dreaming and Waking in Plato – David Gallop
Techne and Morality in the Gorgias – Robert W. Hall
On the “Gold-Example” in Plato’s Timaeus (50A5-B5) – Edward N. Lee
Some Observations Concerning Plato’s Lysis – Donald Norman Levin
Language, Plato, and Logic – Ronald B. Levinson
Reason and Eros in the “Ascent”-Passage of the Symposium – J. M. E. Moravcsik
The Unity of the Laches – Michael J. O’Brien
The Two States in Plato’s Republic – Martin Ostwald
Supporting Themes in the Symposium – George Kimball Plochmann
The Argument for Immortality in Plato’s Phaedrus – Thomas M. Robinson
Plato’s Hypothesis and the Upward Path – Thomas G. Rosenmeyer
Reply to Dr. Levinson – Rosamond Kent Sprague
The Creation Myth in Plato’s Timaeus – Leonardo Tarán
The Philosophical Passage in the Seventh Platonic Letter and the Problem of Plato’s “Esoteric” Philosophy – Kurt von Fritz
3. Aristotle
The Metaphysical Foundations for Aristotle’s Ethics – Thomas Gould
The Universality of the Sensible in the Aristotelian Noetic – Joseph Owens
Aristotle on κίνησις – Arthur L. Peck
Aristotle’s Treatment of φαντασία – D. A. Rees
Notes on Aristotle De anima 3.5 – John M. Rist
Aristotle’s Doctrine of Future Contingencies – Richard Taylor
The Aristotelian Doctrine of Qualitative Change in Physics VII, 3 – G. Verbeke
4. Post- Aristotelian Philosophy
Ancient Interpretations of Aristotle’s Doctrine of Homonyma – John P. Anton
Οὐ μᾶλλον and the Antecedents of Ancient Scepticism – Phillip DeLacy
Knowledge of Atoms and Void in Epicureanism – David J. Furley
Body and Soul in the Philsophy of Plotinus – A. N. M. Rich
Subject Index
Name Index
Link
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