Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy: In Honor of Professor Anthony Preus

ISBN-13: 9781032257112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 368 str.

D. M. Spitzer

Opis

Spanning a wide range of texts, figures, and traditions from the ancient Mediterranean, this volume gathers far-reaching, interdisciplinary papers on various aspects of Greek philosophy from an international group of scholars. Suitable for students and scholars working on ancient Greek philosophy and ancient philosophy more broadly.

Spis treści

List of Figures and Tables

List of Contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Anthony Preus

 

Introduction: SAGP: Studies and Society
D. M. Spitzer

1. Discovering φύσις: Reductive Materialism, the Emergence of Reflexivity, and the First Secular Theories of Everything
Gerard Naddaf

2. Archaic Images of Totality
D. M. Spitzer

3. The Gnomon as Module for Thales and Anaximander: A Technique is Always an Application that is Enveloped by a Theory
Robert Hahn

4. On the Binding of Ares and Aphrodite: The Twofold Meaning of τὸ καλόν in Ancient Greek Philosophy and Poetry
Lewis Trelawny-Cassity

5. Philosophia in Plato’s Gorgias
Christopher Moore

6. Meanings of εἰκός in Plato´s Phaedrus: Criticisms and Appropriations of a Rhetorical Device
María Angélica Fierro

7. Consuming Knowledge
Anne Ashbaugh

8. Souls within a Soul: The City-Soul Analogy Revisited
Carlos Cortissoz

9. Explanation in the Phaedo: An Argument Against the Metaphysical Interpretation of the Clever Aἰτία
Betsy Jelinek

10. Aristotle’s De Caelo Between Mathematics and Physics
Pierre Pellegrin

11. Aristotle’s Critique of the Atomist's Proof of Indivisible Magnitudes
Fred D. Miller, Jr.

12. Aristotle's Women
Thomas M. Olshewsky

13. εἶδος as Species in Aristotle's Metaphysics Zeta
Andrey Darovskikh

14. Πολιτεία in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
J. J. Mulhern

15. Assertoric Truth and Falsehood in the Categories
Mark R. Wheeler

16. The Gods of the Garden
John Thorp

Index

O autorze

D. M. Spitzer is an independent scholar (USA). His work on early Greek thinking has appeared in journals such as Research in Phenomenology, Epoché, Ancient Philosophy. Spitzer has published two other anthologies: Transfiction and Bordering Approaches to Theorizing Translation (with Paulo Oliveira) and Philosophy’s Treason.