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The Analysis Of “Being” In Plato, Henry Teloh

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

While ancient philosophers do not thematize the notion of existence, medieval philosophers do. Aristotle, for example, thinks that to be is to be in some category; it is to be predicatively something. Aquinas, on the other hand, because of a scriptural commitment to creationism, radically distinguishes necessary and contingent existents.

Happiness And Function In Plato’S Republic, Richard Mohr

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

The casual reader of the Republic may not notice that the primary purpose of the whole dialogue is to discuss happiness rather than virtue; more precisely the purpose is to discuss what consequences various conceptions of justice or manners of life have for our understanding of what happiness is. This purpose is explicitly stated in Book V just prior to the introduction of the philosopher-king at 472c: "Our purpose was, with these models (of justice …

The Horns Of Dilemma: Dreaming And Waking Vision In The Theaetetus, Rosemary Desjardins

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

With these disarmingly simple words, addressed to Theaetetus towards the end of the dialogue named in his honor, Plato introduces what surely looks like a gratuitous puzzle. Occurring as an apparent digression just before the expected denouement of the discussion, the passage now known as Socrates' Dream is first elaborately developed, then to all intents and purposes elaborately, precisely, and definitively refuted. After which, the thread of the discussion is picked up where it was …

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University of Dayton Review

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Socratic Psychotherapy, Anthony Preus

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

Was Socrates a psychotherapist? Attempting to answer this question may lead toward a better understanding of Socrates as reported by Plato (and perhaps by Aristophanes and Xenophon), and it may help to clarify our own notion of psychotheraphy. Contra, it may be argued that psychotherapy as we understand it was invented by Charcot and Freud, so it would be anachronistic to ascribe it to any of the ancients; interpreted, this means that our concept of …

Birth And Death In Parmenides And Plato, David Gallop

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

At a turning point in the Phaedo (95e) Socrates says that the objections of his interlocutor, Cebes, call for a thorough inquiry into the reason (aitia) for coming-to-be (genesis) and destruction (phthora.) In this paper I wish to explore some philosophical antecedents of this inquiry, with a view to clarifying its significance in the Phaedo context, and ventilating it as a conceptual issue in its own right.

The Socratic Argument Against Akrasia In The Protagoras, Donald Zeyl

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

In a famous argument at the end of the Protagoras Socrates undertakes to show (a) that the thesis that one can act contrary to what one knows to be best is "absurd," given the explanation of such actions as being due to the agent's being "overcome by pleasure," and given the hedonistic standards of evaluation to which most people are committed; and (b) that the correct explanation of such actions is that they are due …

Plato’S Theaetetus As Dialectic, Ronald Polansky

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

Plato's Theaetetus, having episteme (knowledge or science) as its principal topic, attracts considerable interest. Two lines of interpretation dominate the literature. Each provides a way for explaining the two most prominent features of the dialogue — that it fails to define knowledge and that Socrates refrains from introducing the forms to help himself out. The majority of commentators, adhering to the standard view of Plato — that he has a doctrine of forms which …

The Inquiry Into Aitiai In Plato’S Phaedo, Michael L. Morgan

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

There is a feature of Socrates' intellectual autobiography in the Phaedo that has not been sufficiently clarified by commentators on that passage. Most students of the dialogue have taken the text to describe Socrates' disenchantment with mechanical reasons or explanations, his disappointment with Anaxagoras' failure to provide sound teleological explanations, and his eventual turning to explanations involving the separated Forms. In very rough terms, to be sure, Socrates' tale is thought to be about his …

Block Talk (December 1982), University Of Dayton. Student Development

Block Talk

• Help House update
• Reminder: Clean up and lock up
• Feature on Estelle and Emmett Stanley, 237 Lowes St.
• Energy conservation; study hours; facts about trash and dog licenses
• Survey about Kennedy Union arts and crafts room
• Events calendar

Vytis, Volume 68, Issue 10 (December 1982), Knights Of Lithuania

Vytis: The Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania

Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania national organization (United States); digitized and made available with the permission of the organization. Content may be protected by copyright.

Concerned Philosophers, Vol. 1, No. 4, Concerned Philosophers For Peace

Concerned Philosophers for Peace

No abstract provided.

Logical Truth In Plato, Robin Smith

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

In his works on the history of logic, I.M. Bochenski passes rather harsh judgment on Plato's practical competence in logic. His earlier Ancient Formal Logic claims that the dialogues are so full of "elementary blunders" that "the reading of them is almost intolerable to a logician." Some of the harshest censure has been removed from the later History of Formal Logic, but Bochenski still regards Plato as struggling inordinately hard to " solve logical …

The Two-Worlds Argument And The Development Of Plato’S Metaphysics, William J. Prior

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

In the final argument of the first part of the Parmenides, Plato raises an objection to the separate existence of Forms. This argument, which I shall call the "Two Worlds Argument" (TWA), takes up more space than any of the other arguments against the Theory of Forms (TF), occupying almost two Stephanos pages (133a-134e). It is, moreover, the only argument in the series about which Plato permits Parmenides to offer an editorial comment, the …

Socrates’ Practice Of Elenchos In The Charmides, W. Thomas Schmid

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

There is a common, but false conception of Socrates' practice of dialectical examination. This conception depicts him as a relentless critic, a "despotic logician" (Nietzsche) guided by a moral purpose. Socrates is said to aim not at truth but at refutation — at proving, step by step, and often with a display of malicious irony, that the interlocutor's thought is inconsistent, that he "doesn't know what he is talking about.' Richard Robinson says that the …

Program: 10th Annual Baker Philosophy Colloquium, University Of Dayton

University of Dayton Review

Program listing for the 10th annual Baker Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981. Visiting presiding philosophers: David Gallop of Trent University and Nicholas P. White of the University of Michigan.

Plato On Mind And Morality In Nature, Joan Kung

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

The view that values and virtues, whether independently real or merely conventional, are no part of nature and are to be studied in a discipline distinct from sciences which investigate the natural world goes nearly unquestioned in our time. I shall argue that it is challenged by Plato in his criticism of Anaxagoras.

Courage In Plato’S Earlier Dialogues, Nicholas P. White

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

Beginning in his earlier works. Plato attempted to give an account of virtue and of the particular virtues. including courage. which receives special attention in the Laches and the Protagoras. I want to explore a number of aspects of the virtue of courage about which I think that philosophers are still not fully clear. I am afraid that some of our lack of clarity results from the way in which Socrates and Plato began the …

A Platonic Model Of The Soul-Body Relationship, Kenneth Dorter

University of Dayton Review

Editor's note: After blind peer review, this paper was selected for reading at the University of Dayton's 10th annual Philosophy Colloquium, held Feb. 27-28, 1981.

In presenting a unified overview of Plato's conception of soul I do not intend to suggest that Plato's undogmatic and unsystematic approach to philosophy can be reduced in a systematic dogma. The model I develop is meant to be taken not dogmatically but instrumentally, as a basis for relating to one another the various things that Plato says about the soul. It is furthermore based upon a conviction that the progressive development of Plato's conception …

Review: 'The Rise Of The American Electrochemicals Industry, 1880-1910: Studies In The American Technological Environment', John Alfred Heitmann

History Faculty Publications

Historians of science and technology have recently recognized that the spectacular advances made during the 1920s in the manufacture of synthetic chemicals can best be understood within the context of industrial and educational developments prior to World War I. In The Rise of the American Electrochemicals Industry, 1880-1910, Martha Moore Trescott contends that the electrochemical industry provided the essential bridge between mechanical and metallurgical knowledge of the nineteenth century and chemical technology of the twentieth century.

Flyer News, Vol. 29, No. 21 (Nov. 23, 1982), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

"Christmas Through The Years: A Family Celebration" At Ud

News Releases

News release announces the 19th annual Christmas on Campus celebration, "Christmas Through The Years: A Family Celebration."

Dance Ensemble Performs At The University Of Dayton

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News release announces a concert of modern dance and modern jazz styles at the University of Dayton.

Ud Welcomes Prospective Students To Open House On December 11th

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News release announces an open house for prospective students.

Flyer News, Vol. 29, No. 20 (Nov. 19, 1982), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Come To Ud And Sing Along With George

News Releases

News release announces an old-fashioned Christmas carol sing at the University of Dayton.

Joint Program To Train Engineers For The Air Force

News Releases

News release announces that a joint program of the University of Dayton and the Air Force Logistics Command is now recruiting candidates.

Flyer News, Vol. 29, No. 19 (Nov. 16, 1982), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Alumni Support Of Ud Setting School Record

News Releases

News release announces that more alumni gave more money to the University of Dayton's annual support program in 1981 than ever before.

Ud Professor To Give Piano Recital

News Releases

News release announces that Hyung Bae Kim, director of the music program at the University of Dayton, will give a solo piano recital.