Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy

In Honor of Professor Anthony Preus

D. M. Spitzer

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032257112
• eBook ISBN: 9781000845204
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

Spanning a wide range of texts, figures, and traditions from the ancient Mediterranean world, this volume gathers far-reaching, interdisciplinary papers on Greek philosophy from an international group of scholars.

The book's 16 chapters address an array of topics and themes, extending from the formation of philosophy from its first stirrings in archaic Greek as well as Egyptian, Persian, Mesopotamian, and Indian sources, through central concepts in ancient Greek philosophy and literatures of the classical period and into the Hellenistic age. Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy offers both in-depth, rigorous, attentive investigations of canonical texts in Western philosophy, such as Plato's Phaedo, Gorgias, Republic, Phaedrus, Protagoras and the Metaphysics, De Caelo, Nichomachean Ethics, Generation and Corruption of Aristotle's corpus, as well as inquiries that reach back into the rich archives of the Mediterranean Basin and forward into the traditions of classical philosophy beyond the ancient world.

Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy is of interest to students and scholars working on different aspects of ancient Greek philosophy, as well as ancient philosophy, more broadly.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Anthony Preus
• Introduction: SAGP: Studies and Society
• 1 Discovering φύσις: Reductive Materialism, the Emergence of Reflexivity, and the First Secular Theories of Everything
• 2 Archaic Images of Totality
• 3 The Gnomon as Module for Thales and Anaximander: A Technique is Always an Application that is Enveloped by a Theory
• 4 On the Binding of Ares and Aphrodite: The Twofold Meaning of τὸ καλόν in Ancient Greek Philosophy and Poetry
• 5 Philosophia in Plato’s Gorgias
• 6 Meanings of εἰκός in Plato’s Phaedrus: Criticisms and Appropriations of a Rhetorical Device
• 7 Consuming Knowledge
• 8 Souls Within a Soul: The City-Soul Analogy Revisited
• 9 Explanation in the Phaedo: An Argument Against the Metaphysical Interpretation of the Clever Αἰτία
• 10 Aristotle’s De Caelo Between Mathematics and Physics
• 11 Aristotle’s Critique of the Atomists’ Proof of Indivisible Magnitudes
• 12 Aristotle’s Women
• 13 εἶδος as Species in Aristotle’s Metaphysics Zeta
• 14 Πολιτεία in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
• 15 Assertoric Truth and Falsehood in the Categories
• 16 The Gods of the Garden
• Index