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1990

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The Theodicy Of The Timaeus, Thomas M. Robinson Dec 1990

The Theodicy Of The Timaeus, Thomas M. Robinson

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

I suggest that any explanation of the Demiurge that has a chance of being correct must take into account the fact that he is invariably described in non-contingent terms, and the entities to which many have wished to reduce him (the world’s soul, or the rationality within it) in invariably and unambiguously contingent terms. This holds true despite Timaeus’s readiness to speak without apparent qualm of the Demiurge as either a father or a craftsman or both, or even - after the manner of Anaxagoras - to talk of him on occasion simply as Reason; whatever the variants in the …

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Seneca And The Stoic View Of Suicide, Walter Englert Dec 1990

Seneca And The Stoic View Of Suicide, Walter Englert

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

will present a summary of the Stoic doctrine on suicide before Seneca, followed by an analysis of Seneca’s own views. Our sources on Stoic views of suicide before Seneca are meager. But they allow us to construct a coherent Stoic theory of suicide, and in Seneca we see the theory fleshed out. Rist is right to point out that we find a connection between suicide and libertas for the first time in Seneca, but wrong to suppose that it is inconsistent with earlier Stoic teaching, pathological, or based on a hatred of life.8 Seneca’s views are consistent with earlier, orthodox …

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Sagp Newsletter 1990/91.2 (December), Anthony Preus Dec 1990

Sagp Newsletter 1990/91.2 (December), Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Announcement of the Society's panels with the American Philological Association, and the Eastern, Pacific, and Central Divisions of the American Philosophical Association for 1990/91.

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The Philosophical Economy Of Plato's Psychology: Common Concepts In The Timaeus, Dorothea Aline Frede Dec 1990

The Philosophical Economy Of Plato's Psychology: Common Concepts In The Timaeus, Dorothea Aline Frede

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Plato's insistence that the eternal immobile model is “the real thing” and the mobile world only an image is to stress the sincerity of his conviction that the intelligible pattern, the unchangeable network of principles, must be the foundation of the physical reality. Only because there is such a fundamentum in re can we have concepts that allow us to understand and explain the world. Without such really existing concepts our thinking would be nothing, it would be a groping for stability in a changing world that could at best provide similarities without any fix point to determine their nature. …

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Sagp Newsletter 1990/91.1 (September) Ssips, Anthony Preus Sep 1990

Sagp Newsletter 1990/91.1 (September) Ssips, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Announcement of the panels for the December meetings of the Society, as well as the program for the 9th annual SSIPS/SAGP conference at Baruch College, October 1990.

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Plotinus On Freedom, Creativity And The One, Laura Westra Apr 1990

Plotinus On Freedom, Creativity And The One, Laura Westra

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

In this paper I want to show the import and the centrality of Freedom as Creativity in the philosophy of Plotinus. I will only say a little about Freedom's cardinal role and centrality in his thought, as I defend that position at length in my forthcoming book on the topic (and on Enneads 6.8). Instead, I will show the link between Freedom and Creativity in Section 1, then speak of Creativity as a human good and ideal when understood in the Plotinian sense, touching also upon the light it sheds on general problem of philosophy (Section 2); and finally, of …

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Aristotle On Unity: Metaphysics Delta 6, Constantine Georgiadis Apr 1990

Aristotle On Unity: Metaphysics Delta 6, Constantine Georgiadis

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

The brief passage on accidental unity (ἕv κατὰ συμβεβηκός) in Chapter 6 of Metaphysics Δ (1015b 16-34) raises a number of questions for which the text does not provide explicit answers. Aristotle does not define the nature of accidental unity, nor does he explain the status and character of the items which partake in accidental unities. One may wonder whether those items pertain to language, or to reality or whether they involve a certain relation of language to reality. Aristotle lists different examples which are purported to illustrate different kinds of accidental unity but those kinds are not described in …

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Sagp Newsletter 1989/90.4 (March), Anthony Preus Mar 1990

Sagp Newsletter 1989/90.4 (March), Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Announcement of the Society's panel with the Central Division, April 1990

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Sagp Newsletter 1989/90.3 (February), Anthony Preus Feb 1990

Sagp Newsletter 1989/90.3 (February), Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Announcement of the SAGP Panel with the Pacific Division for 1990

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Neoplatonic Influences In Augustine's Confessions, Shon H. Kraley Jan 1990

Neoplatonic Influences In Augustine's Confessions, Shon H. Kraley

Anthós Journal (1990-1996)

Augustine wrote the Confession at a time when Christianity was still a small religion mostly populated with peasants and lower-class individuals. This paper argues that he actively utilized Neoplatonic philosophies and ideas in order to give credibility to his Christian doctrine. By doing so he accomplished the goal of expanding Christianity and appealing to the Intellegentsia.

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