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Classical Insights And Today's World, Julius M. Moravcsik
Classical Insights And Today's World, Julius M. Moravcsik
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Professor Moravscik, as President of the Society, was invited to present his views on the current state of classical philosophy at the turn of the millennium. He comments on the role of the History of Philosophy in current education, sketches the work done in classical philosophy during the 20th century, posits Aristotelianism as an antidote for Cartesianism, and recommends a Platonic perspective for epistemology.
Worlds Within World Within The One: Anaxagoras' Parmenidean Cosmology, John E. Sisko
Worlds Within World Within The One: Anaxagoras' Parmenidean Cosmology, John E. Sisko
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
The long-standing puzzle regarding the relation between Anaxagoras' pluralism and Parmenides' monism can be met and solved on its own terms. We need not deny that Parmenides was a numerical Monist and we need not suppose that Anaxagoras failed to adequately consider Parmenides' basic principles. Anaxagoras did not attack these basic principles, because he thought that they were compatible with pluralism. He not only provided a brilliant explanation of the emergence of our world within the Chaos, but he posited a fascinating cosmology of worlds within worlds within the One. And since his Chaos is Parmenides' One under an alternative …
Sagp Newsletter 2001.4 (May), Anthony Preus
Sagp Newsletter 2001.4 (May), Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Earth And Stars In The Cosmology Of Xenophanes, Alexander P.D. Mourelatos
Earth And Stars In The Cosmology Of Xenophanes, Alexander P.D. Mourelatos
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
The doxography for Xenophanes of Colophon unambiguously attributes to him a theory that all the meteora, i.e. all 'objects suspended above us' or 'objects seen in the sky' are different types of clouds. My concern in this paper is with two sets of assumptions that are likely to have framed Xenophanes' theory: a) assumptions concerning the size and shape of the eareth, and b) assumptions concerning the motions of the fixed stars.
Literary And Poetic Performance In Plato's Laws, Gerard Naddaf
Literary And Poetic Performance In Plato's Laws, Gerard Naddaf
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Plato’s evaluations of the written and spoken word are complex, even ambiguous. On the one hand, he clearly privileges the give-and-take oral conversation as the paradigm for philosophical discussion, and on the basis of this paradigm he offers strong critiques of the written word, notably in the Phaedrus and Letter 7. On the other hand, he is a most famous enemy of the oral performance of poetry − notwithstanding the fact that in the Republic he gives ‘music’ a prominent place in education. When we turn to the Laws, we encounter another aspect or dimension of Plato’s thinking about the …
Thinking, Thought And Nous In Aristotle's De Anima, Michael Bowler
Thinking, Thought And Nous In Aristotle's De Anima, Michael Bowler
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Michael Wedin in his “Tracking Aristotle’s Nous’’ wishes to argue that the most plausible interpretation of De Anima, Book III, chapter 5 is . .that these chapters provide the essentials of a thoroughly finitistic account of individual noetic activity.” I want to argue that Wedin’s account is not the most plausible interpretation of Aristotle’s theory of individual noetic activity. I think Wedin’s interpretation misses a crucial distinction between the actualization of mind and the being of mind, insofar as he argues that mind is identical simpliciter with its object in the act of knowing when in fact, for Aristotle, mind …
Sagp Newsletter 2001.3 (March), Anthony Preus
Sagp Newsletter 2001.3 (March), Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
No abstract provided.