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Full-Text Articles in Ancient Philosophy
Aristotle's Analytic Tools, Mary Mulhern
Aristotle's Analytic Tools, Mary Mulhern
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Aristotle developed analytic tools to deal with conceptual difficulties that were important in his time. Some of these tools are his explicit analysis of homonymy, his eightfold classification of subjects and predicates and its elaboration into the predicaments and predicables, his syntactical analysis of ordinary language sentences, and his construction of a formal language for deductive and demonstrative syllogistic. Some of these conceptual difficulties are traceable to theories of Ideas, in which definitory predicates were not distinguished from non-definitory ones, as for instance in Hypothesis V of the Parmenides, where it is argued that the (non-existent) one is not equal …
Studying Mathematics For The Sake Of The Good, Andrew Payne
Studying Mathematics For The Sake Of The Good, Andrew Payne
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
In the Republic, Socrates describes the good as the end of all human action: “Every soul pursues the good and does what it does for its sake. It divines that the good is something but it is perplexed and cannot adequately grasp what it is or acquire the sort of stable beliefs it has about other things, and so it misses the benefits, if any, that even those other things may give.” I wish to examine how humans act for the sake of the good in the sections of the Republic following this passage. Human action is oriented toward the …
Sagp Newsletter 2007/8.1 (December), Anthony Preus
Sagp Newsletter 2007/8.1 (December), Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Includes the SAGP Programs with the Eastern Division (December 28, 2007) in Baltimore, with the American Philological Association (January 4, 2008) in Chicago, with the Pacific Division (March 2008) in Pasadena, and with the Central Division (April 2008) in Chicago.
Sagp/Ssips 2007 Abstract Collection, Anthony Preus
Sagp/Ssips 2007 Abstract Collection, Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
This is a collection of abstracts from the 2007 SAGP/SSIPS conference, in alphabetical order by name of author.
Aristotle On Mathematical Existence, Phil Corkum
Aristotle On Mathematical Existence, Phil Corkum
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Do mathematical objects exist in some realm inaccessible to our senses? It may be tempting to deny this. For one thing, how we could come to know mathematical truths, if such knowledge must arise from causal interaction with non-empirical objects? However, denying that mathematical objects exist altogether has unsettling consequences. If you deny the existence of mathematical objects, then you must reject all claims that commit you to such objects, which means rejecting much of mathematics as it is standardly understood. For, as David Papineau (1990) vividly puts it, it is doublethink to deny that mathematical objects exist but to …
On The (In)Consistency Of Aristotle's Philosophy Of Time, Tiberiu Popa
On The (In)Consistency Of Aristotle's Philosophy Of Time, Tiberiu Popa
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Aristotle’s mind-dependence theory of time is considerably more than an eccentric afterthought formulated in a short passage, as many believe; rather, it is firmly anchored in Physics IV, especially in Ch. 11. A number of formulations that may seem purely epistemic or propaedeutic in nature do in fact have ontological significance, pointing to the fact that time’s existence hinges crucially on our capacity to perceive change. Aristotle seems to be echoed in crucial respects by contemporary theories of time, notably by A. Grünbaum’s.
Socrates's Great Escape: Philosophy And Politics In The Crito, Matthew King
Socrates's Great Escape: Philosophy And Politics In The Crito, Matthew King
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Many contemporary students of Plato hold that the arguments Socrates gives the personified Laws in the Crito do not represent Socrates’s own views, but rather work on assumptions to which Crito adheres, but Socrates does not. But if the Laws’ arguments are not Socrates’s own, then we seem to be left with a bewildering problem: why would Plato provide us with arguments that Socrates does not believe in, for a conclusion which Socrates evidently does believe in? After all, Socrates does remain in prison to face his execution; evidently, he believes that that is what he ought to do. This …
The Tension Between Altruistic Character And Self-Serving Possession In A Classical Socio-Political Ethic, Jeremy S. Neill
The Tension Between Altruistic Character And Self-Serving Possession In A Classical Socio-Political Ethic, Jeremy S. Neill
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Much of the Nicomachean Ethics treats egocentrism as an ineffectual and pernicious social vice out of which humans ought to be habituated. In the Politics self-centeredness is almost universally portrayed as a useful and enduring constituent of human psychology. The system of private property described in the Politics can hardly be a necessary social institution when Aristotle claims in the Ethics that the habituation process is capable of permanently fixing our attention upon public and altruistic fiscal ventures. This interpretive discrepancy between the two texts demonstrates that Aristotle’s defense of private property is ineffectual in its attempt to preserve the …
A Threshold In Socrates Education: An Examination Of The Introductory Scenes In Plato's Protagoras, Lisa Leibowitz
A Threshold In Socrates Education: An Examination Of The Introductory Scenes In Plato's Protagoras, Lisa Leibowitz
Lisa Leibowitz
No abstract provided.
Sagp Newsletter 2006/7.2, Anthony Preus
Sagp Newsletter 2006/7.2, Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Programs of the Society with the Pacific Division, April 7, 2007, in San Francisco, and with the Central Division, April 20, 2007, in Chicago.
Li As Cultural Grammar, Chenyang Li
Catholic Studies And The Mission Of The Catholic University, Richard M. Liddy
Catholic Studies And The Mission Of The Catholic University, Richard M. Liddy
Richard M Liddy
No abstract provided.
Catholic Studies And The Mission Of The Catholic University, Richard Liddy
Catholic Studies And The Mission Of The Catholic University, Richard Liddy
Department of Religion Publications
No abstract provided.
Resembling Nothing: Image And Being In Plato, Yancy Hughes Dominick
Resembling Nothing: Image And Being In Plato, Yancy Hughes Dominick
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
A crucial application of Plato’s views on the use of images in philosophy occurs through the use of the image relationship as an image for the relation of forms and particulars. The relation of a picture to the object it depicts, or that between a reflection and what it reflects, can be seen as analogous to the relation of a particular to the form in which it participates. Although the attack on the image model as analogous to the relation of forms and particulars in the Parmenides threatens to undermine any reliance on that model, this essay will present a …