Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 2009

• ISBN13: 9789004186781
• ISBN10: 9004186786
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-01
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

This volume, the twenty-fifth year of published proceedings, contains seven papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2008-9. The papers treat topics including: mind and body in Heraclitus

Author Biography

Gary M. Gurtler, S.J., is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He has published on ancient philosophy, with special attention to Neoplatonism, including a book on Plotinus: The Experience of Unity (1988). William Wians is Processor of Philosophy at Merrimack College. He has edited five previous volumes of BACAP proceedings and written numerous articles and reviews on ancient philosophy. His collection Logos and Muthos: Philosophical Essays in Greek Literature was recently published.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Addendum 2010	p. xiii
Thought and Body in Heraclitus and Anaxagoras	p. 1
Commentary on Curd	p. 21
Curd/McPartland Bibliography	p. 39
Living Well and Living Together: Politics VII 1-3 and the Discovery of the Common Life	p. 43
Commentary on Garver	p. 64
Garver/Lockwood Bibliography	p. 67
Why Beauty is Truth in All We Know: Aesthetics and Mimesis in Neoplatonic Science	p. 69
Commentary on Martijn	p. 93
Martijn/Nikulin Bibliography	p. 106
Politics and Dialectic in Plato's Statesman	p. 109
Commentary on El Murr	p. 136
El Murr/Thomas Bibliography	p. 146
Is Virtue Knowledge? Socratic Intellectualism Reconsidered	p. 149
Commentary on Hardy	p. 185
Hardy/Roochnik Bibliography	p. 189
On the Chrysippean Thesis that the Virtues are Poia	p. 193
Commentary on Collette-Ducic	p. 224
Collette-Ducic/Johnson Bibliography	p. 240
Happiness, Justice, and Poetry in Plato's Republic Pierre Destrée	p. 243
Commentary on Destrée	p. 270
Destrée/Sim Bibliography	p. 277
About our Contributors	p. 279
Index of Names	p. 283
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