Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, 2007

by Cleary, John J.; Gurtler, Gary M.

• ISBN13: 9789004166868
• ISBN10: 9004166866
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-15
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

With one notable exception, this volume contains papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during the academic year 2006-7. That exception is the colloquium in which Alasdair MacIntyre offers a fresh reading of Plato's Republic. Indeed, most of the papers included in this volume discuss a wide range of topics related to Plato, for instance, the dangers of misology in the Phaedo, the Socratic use of rhetoric in the Gorgias, Plato's anti-hedonism in the Philebus, the link between mythical and logical thinking in the Symposium, and Heidegger's interpretation of Plato's concept of truth. But, apart from this obsession with Plato, there are two colloquia devoted to the Epicurean notion of preconception and to the Stoic conception of the good, respectively. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Misology and Truth	p. 1
Commentary on Woolf	p. 17
Woolf/Wood Bibliography	p. 24
Method and Evidence: On Epicurean Preconception	p. 25
Commentary on Morel	p. 49
Morel/Konstan Bibliography	p. 55
Rhetoric, Refutation, and What Socrates Believes in Plato's Gorgias	p. 57
Commentary on Teloh	p. 78
Teloh/Roochnik Bibliography	p. 82
Plato's Question of Truth (Versus Heidegger's Doctrines)	p. 83
Commentary on Gonzalez	p. 112
Gonzalez/Gurtler Bibliography	p. 118
Plato's Anti-Hedonism	p. 121
Commentary on Evans	p. 146
Evans/Harte Bibliography	p. 154
The Good is Benefit: On the Stoic Definition of the Good	p. 155
Commentary on Vogt	p. 175
Vogt Bibliography	p. 185
On Names and Concepts: Mythical and Logical Thinking in Plato's Symposium	p. 187
Commentary on Figal	p. 199
Figal/Schmidt Bibliography	p. 204
Yet Another Way to Read the Republic?	p. 205
MacIntyre Bibliography	p. 224
About our Contributors	p. 225
Index of Names	p. 229
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