Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy IV
Author : John P. Anton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 19,59 MB
Release : 1991-08-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791495051
Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy IV
Author : John Peter Anton
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 16,55 MB
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791406540
Book Description
Papers originally presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy. Seventeen essays demonstrate a shared and strikingly high regard for Plato as a major thinker in the western philosophical tradition, a recognition that the dialogues he wrote continue to exert influence as well as attract theoretical attention. Paper edition ($18.95) not seen. The essays in this collection have been selected from a much larger set of papers on Aristotle's ethics, presented before the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy during the past decade. The essays are arranged (roughly) according to several unifying themes: methodology, ergon, virtue and character, moral reasoning, and persons and property. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy III
Author : John Peter Anton
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780887069161
Book Description
The Plato who emerges from these essays is the seminal thinker, the profound philosopher, the master of dialectic who offers, together with his insights into reality and human values, a systematically developed set of powerful devices for the articulation and defence of his ideas. In each case the discussion unfolds not as advocacy of Platonic doctrines but as critical assessment of argument, and is meant as judicious explication of the logical form of significant theses often believed, during centuries of Platonic commentary, to be cornerstones of a monumental speculative system. It demonstrates a shared and strikingly high regard for Plato as a major thinker in the western philosophical tradition, a recognition that the dialogues he wrote continue to exert influence as well as attract theoretical attention. Taken together with the material on Plato in Volume II, Volume III displays a definite continuity in direction, scope, and quality, strengthening the conviction that Platonic scholarship has entered a new and different phase and has consolidated the approach that this new movement introduced.
Essays in Ancient Philosophy
Author : Michael Frede
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0816612757
Book Description
This text contains seventeen papers written by the author over the course of the last twelve years on the topic of philosophy.
Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy II
Author : John P. Anton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 1984-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791495035
Book Description
Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Volume Two, reflects the refinements in scholarship and philosophical analysis that have impacted classical philosophy in recent years. It is a selection of the best papers presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy during the last decade. The papers presented indicate a shift in accent from a predominant preference for the application of linguistic methods in the study of texts to a more intensified concern for contextual examinations of philosophical concepts. The works of both younger scholars and senior authors show a more liberal, yet controlled, use of historical and cultural elements in interpretation. The papers also reflect advances in scholarship in adjacent fields of Greek studies. From pre-Socratic to post-Aristotelian philosophers, the papers in this volume are intended to stimulate interest in the major accomplishments of classical philosophers. This work augments its companion volume Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy.
Logos and Muthos
Author : William Wians
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 36,38 MB
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438427433
Book Description
Explores the philosophical dimensions present in the works of ancient Greek poets and playwrights.
Dewey and the Ancients
Author : Christopher C. Kirby
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1472510550
Book Description
Dewey's students at Columbia saw him as "an Aristotelian more Aristotelian than Aristotle himself." However, until now, there has been little consideration of the influence Greek thought had on the intellectual development of this key American philosopher. By examining, in detail, Dewey's treatment and appropriation of Greek thought, the authors in this volume reveal an otherwise largely overlooked facet of his intellectual development and finalized ideas. Rather than offering just one unified account of Dewey's connection to Greek thought, this volume offers multiple perspectives on Dewey's view of the aims and purpose of philosophy. Ultimately, each author reveals ways in which Dewey's thought was in line with ancient themes. When combined, they offer a tapestry of comparative approaches with special attention paid to key contributions in political, social, and pedagogical philosophy.
Wisdom, Love, and Friendship in Ancient Greek Philosophy
Author : Georgia Sermamoglou-Soulmaidi
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,97 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110701210
Book Description
This volume consists of fourteen essays in honor of Daniel Devereux on the themes of love, friendship, and wisdom in Plato, Aristotle, and the Epicureans. Philia (friendship) and eros (love) are topics of major philosophical interest in ancient Greek philosophy. They are also topics of growing interest and importance in contemporary philosophy, much of which is inspired by ancient discussions. Philosophy is itself, of course, a special sort of love, viz. the love of wisdom. Loving in the right way is very closely connected to doing philosophy, cultivating wisdom, and living well. The first nine essays run the gamut of Plato's philosophical career. They include discussions of the >AlcibiadesEuthydemusGorgiasPhaedoPhaedrusSymposiumNicomachean EthicsPoliticsProtrepticusMagna Moralia
A Companion to Ancient Philosophy
Author : Sean D. Kirkland
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 18,30 MB
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0810137887
Book Description
A Companion to Ancient Philosophy is a collection of essays on a broad range of themes and figures spanning the entire period extending from the Pre-Socratics to Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic thinkers. Rather than offering synoptic and summary treatments of preestablished positions and themes, these essays engage with the ancient texts directly, focusing attention on concepts that emerge as urgent in the readings themselves and then clarifying those concepts interpretively. Indeed, this is a companion volume that takes a very serious and considered approach to its designated task—accompanying readers as they move through the most crucial passages of the infinitely rich and compelling texts of the ancients. Each essay provides a tutorial in close reading and careful interpretation. Because it offers foundational treatments of the most important works of ancient philosophy and because it, precisely by doing so, arrives at numerous original interpretive insights and suggests new directions for research in ancient philosophy, this volume should be of great value both to students just starting off reading the ancients and to established scholars still fascinated by philosophy's deepest abiding questions.
Endangered Excellence
Author : Pierre Pellegrin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438479581
Book Description
In Endangered Excellence, Pierre Pellegrin provides a fresh interpretation of Aristotle's Politics, revealing the extent to which Aristotle diverged from other ancient writers on politics, and the extent to which many of his positions resemble modern attitudes in political philosophy. Pellegrin highlights a number of strikingly original positions in his thought. Aristotle took humans to be inherently political, for example, even as he believed this characteristic developed more completely in men than in women, and in Greeks more than in barbarians. He maintained a nuanced and flexible conception of the way that cities ought to develop their constitutions, one that would be responsive to their particular social and historical contexts. Realist enough to recognize that virtuous men are rare and that class conflict is inevitable, Aristotle envisioned a political system that would be resilient in navigating the choppy waters of civic life. With this original approach to Aristotle's Politics, and incorporating key developments in European and English-language scholarship on the subject, Pellegrin demonstrates Aristotle's important and often unrecognized innovations in understanding political life.
