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The Academy was a philosophical school established by Plato that
safeguarded the continuity and the evolution of Platonism over a
period of about 300 years. Its contribution to the development of
Hellenistic philosophical and scientific thinking was decisive, but
it also had a major impact on the formation of most of the other
philosophical trends emerging during this period. This volume
surveys the evidence for the historical and social setting in which
the Academy operated, as well as the various shifts in the
philosophical outlook of Platonism during its existence. Its
contribution to the evolution of special sciences such as
mathematics is also examined. The book further includes the first
complete annotated translation in English of Philodemus' History of
the Academy, preserved on a papyrus from Herculaneum. It thus
offers a comprehensive picture of one of the most prominent and
influential of all educational institutions in ancient Greece.
The Academy was a philosophical school established by Plato that
safeguarded the continuity and the evolution of Platonism over a
period of about 300 years. Its contribution to the development of
Hellenistic philosophical and scientific thinking was decisive, but
it also had a major impact on the formation of most of the other
philosophical trends emerging during this period. This volume
surveys the evidence for the historical and social setting in which
the Academy operated, as well as the various shifts in the
philosophical outlook of Platonism during its existence. Its
contribution to the evolution of special sciences such as
mathematics is also examined. The book further includes the first
complete annotated translation in English of Philodemus' History of
the Academy, preserved on a papyrus from Herculaneum. It thus
offers a comprehensive picture of one of the most prominent and
influential of all educational institutions in ancient Greece.
The volumes of the Symposium Aristotelicum have become essential
reference works for the study of Aristotle. In this nineteenth
volume, eleven distinguished scholars of ancient philosophy provide
a running commentary on the first book of Aristotle's Physics, a
central treatise of the Aristotelian corpus that aims at knowledge
of the principles of physical change. Along with the general
introduction, the ten chapters together comment on the entirety of
the Aristotelian text and discuss the philosophical issues that are
raised in it in detail. Aristotle is shown to be in dialogue with
the divergent doctrines of earlier philosophers, namely with the
Eleatics' monism, with Anaxagoras' theory of mixture, and finally
with the Platonist dyadism that posits the two principles of Form
and the Great and Small. Aristotle uses critical examination of his
predecessors' views as the basis for formulating his own theory of
the principles of natural things, which are fundamental for the
entire Aristotelian study of the natural world. He provides his own
solution to the problem of coming-to-be and passing-away by
distinguishing between coming in actuality and in potentiality.
Comprehensive analysis of Aristotle's doctrines and arguments, as
well as critical discussion of rival interpretations, will make
this volume a valuable resource for scholars of Aristotle.
Lindsay Judson and Vassilis Karasmanis present a selection of
philosophical papers by an outstanding international team of
scholars, assessing the legacy and continuing relevance of
Socrates' thought 2,400 years after his death. Socrates' life,
philosophical activity, and death not only had a formative effect
on his follower Plato, and thus indirectly on almost the whole
course of Greek philosophy, but also represented a moral and
philosophical ideal which has been the inspiration, or the despair,
of many philosophers and other thinkers down to the present day.
The topics of the papers include Socratic method as portrayed by
Plato and by Xenophon; the notion of definition; Socrates'
intellectualist conception of ethics; famous arguments in the
Euthyphro and Crito, and a not-so famous argument in the Hippias
Major; and aspects of the later portrayal and reception of Socrates
as a philosophical and ethical exemplar--by Plato, the Sceptics,
and in the early Christian era. The collection demonstrates the
vitality as well as the diversity of Socratic studies, and will
interest many ancient philosophers, historians of philosophy, and
classicists.
Lindsay Judson and Vassilis Karasmanis present a selection of
philosophical papers by an outstanding international team of
scholars, assessing the legacy and continuing relevance of
Socrates' thought 2,400 years after his death. Socrates' life,
philosophical activity, and death not only had a formative effect
on his follower Plato, and thus indirectly on almost the whole
course of Greek philosophy, but also represented a moral and
philosophical ideal which has been the inspiration, or the despair,
of many philosophers and other thinkers down to the present day.
The topics of the papers include Socratic method as portrayed by
Plato and by Xenophon; the notion of definition; Socrates'
intellectualist conception of ethics; famous arguments in the
Euthyphro and Crito, and a not-so famous argument in the Hippias
Major; and aspects of the later portrayal and reception of Socrates
as a philosophical and ethical exemplar - by Plato, the Sceptics,
and in the early Christian era. The collection demonstrates the
vitality as well as the diversity of Socratic studies, and will
interest many ancient philosophers, historians of philosophy, and
classicists.
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