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Did Aristotle 'Develop'? Reflections On Werner Jaeger's Thesis, David R. Lachterman Dec 1980

Did Aristotle 'Develop'? Reflections On Werner Jaeger's Thesis, David R. Lachterman

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Jaeger was combating the previous monolithic interpretation of Aristotle with an organic model of psychological growth. Disproving details in Jaeger's account do not ultimately demonstrate that Aristotle did not develop in some way, or present his ideas in different ways in different places. (Preus)


Plato's Theory Of Participation: Platonic Forms And The Making Of Sense Objects, Richard Patterson Dec 1980

Plato's Theory Of Participation: Platonic Forms And The Making Of Sense Objects, Richard Patterson

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Plato’s Theory of Participation: Platonic Forms and the Making of Sense Objects

It is correct to say, with certain Friends of the Forms, that Plato’s separate Forms (i.e., non-spatial Forms existing independently of their worldly participants) are not perfect or unqualified instances of themselves, as asserted by prominent Foes of the Forms; rather, they are abstract intelligible entities that do not, with a few exceptions, exemplify themselves. However, this does not yet explain how worldly things can possibly “participate” in Forms, or how that participation can make worldly things be what they are. This paper formulates and defends an explanation …


Socrates And Hedonism: Protagoras 351b-358d, Donald J. Zeyl Oct 1980

Socrates And Hedonism: Protagoras 351b-358d, Donald J. Zeyl

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

The weight of the evidence is heavily in favor of the antihedonist reading of the Protagoras. It is thoroughly compatible with the text of the Protagoras; it is intelligible in the light of a plausible account of Socrates' aims; and it can meet objections to it, whereas the prohedonist account creates more problems than it solves.


Listing Of The 1980-1980 Sagp Content, Anthony Preus Jan 1980

Listing Of The 1980-1980 Sagp Content, Anthony Preus

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

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Kykloi : Cyclic Theories In Ancient Greece, Hubert Wayne Nelson Jan 1980

Kykloi : Cyclic Theories In Ancient Greece, Hubert Wayne Nelson

Dissertations and Theses

It is both curious and frustrating, given the perennial popularity of the cycle concept in Ancient Greece, that there has not been a single book written devoted to the wide variety of philosophic and historical conceptions bound up with that loosely descriptive designation. This study was originally undertaken to satisfy my own curiosity on the subject. Herein I intend to survey the entire history of the cycle concept in general from about 700 B.C. to the time of Polybius in the second-century A.D. It is intended to be a descriptive as well as an analytical report.