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

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