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The World Of The Greek Philosophers: A Reappraisal, Robert S. Brumbaugh

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In this account of an encounter with the surviving traces of the world of the Greek philosophers* and ray own discovery of their relevance to the ideas that originated and were tested there, I have three purposes in mind. The first Is to start a discussion of ancient thought in its context; such topics as "the world" are somewhat out of style, and yet our more specialized studies presuppose such a world and can go wrong if the general presuppositions are mistaken. % second purpose is to persuade our Society that it Is necessary for us to keep track of …

Sagp Program For 1963, Phillip Delacy, Robert W. Hall, Rosamond Kent Sprague

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Announcement of the meetings of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association and with the American Philological Association, December 1963.

Aristotle On Kinesis, Arthur L. Peck

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This paper is zetetic rather than expository: Can we define the field in which Aristotle believed kinesis to operate? My interest in this question stems from my work with his biological writings. The distinction between potentiality and actuality was for him an indispensable instrument for philosophy. The application of this principle reaches its apex when he speaks of active and passive nous.

Socrates And Thrasymachus, Francis Sparshott

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What is striking in the Republic is less the doctrines that Plato propounds than the relationship that he develops between ideas. We show that a surprising number of these relationships are already set forth, or alluded to, in the encounter between Socrates and Thrasymachus.

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The Unity Of The Laches, Michael J. O'Brien

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On the level of ideas the dialogue remains incomplete. A satisfactory conception of courage is never formulated. On the level of personalities, however, there is a solution, in the person of Socrates. He has fought bravely at Delium and has matched or surpassed Laches in steadfastness. But he can also examine courage rationally and realizes the importance of knowledge to virtue, like Nicias. Neither Laches nor Nicias is fully worthy as a person of courage, as Socrates is. But there is a harmony between the incomplete definitions they offer and their own characters. The unity of the Laches is both …

Sagp Program For 1962, John H. Randall Jr., Rosamond K. Sprague

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Announcement of the meetings of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association and with the American Philological Association for 1962.

Hiccups And Other Interruptions In The Symposium, George Kimball Plochmann

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The hoped-for result of my study will be to discover that the genius of philosophy and that of literature do not change places, yet are somehow the same; and if this conclusion involves getting rid of certain textbook conceptions of either philosophy or literature, this too will be all to the good.

Aristotle's Treatment Of Phantasia, D. A. Rees

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Review of the relevant passages in Aristotle, and (briefly) the scholarship on Aristotle's concept of phantasia. Aristotle's treatment of phantasia is contrasted with Plato's discussions of eikasia, mimesis, the receptacle in the Timaeus, the Sophist as maker of phantasmata, the treatment of memory in the Philebus, and eidola in several places. De Anima 3.3 concerns mental images; further discussion involves passages in EN, MA, and the Parva Naturalia.

Roman Catholicism In Selected Novels Of Willa Cather, Irma Aloysius Sister Derck

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Brief History Of The Society For Ancient Greek Philosophy, Rosamond Kent Sprague

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A historical report of the society covering 1953 to 1962.

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Body And Soul In The Philosophy Of Plotinus, Audrey N. M. Rich

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How did Plotinus conceive of the relation existing between the human soul and the human body? Plato did not give the impression of being vitally concerned about this question. Although Plotinus professes to be a follower of Plato, he is much more profoundly influenced in this instance by Aristotle. Besides owing much to Aristotle, Plotinus' account of sensation, pleasure and pain, and the emotions in general clearly shows the influence of the medical theories of Galen.

Plotinus' belief in reincarnation shows the more Platonic strain in his approach to the body-soul problem.

Xenophanes And The Axiomatization Of The God-Concept, Harald A.T. Reiche

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Inasmuch as Xenophanes rests his axiomatization of the god-concept on the logic of "likeness" (prepein), implicit in the Greek correlation of arete and time, he rests his case for an idealistic, nomomorphic revision of theology and human society on a correspondence-theory of truth, whose referent is periodically verifiable as superlatively powerful and universally binding.

Cosmic Periods In The Philosophy Of Empedocles, Edwin L. Minar Jr.

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The highest human types or "lives", which one may go through before attaining the divinity and immortality of fr. 147, are those of benefactors of their fellow man: "and finally they come as seers and bards and physicians and leaders among men on earth.1133 The humanistic motive that led Empedocles to see as the ruling forces in nature Love and Strife, which are most familiar to us as forces in the life of man, is also the leading spirit of his physical philosophy.

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He passed away in 1985.

Presocratic Methodology, Jerry Stannard

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In this essay the author characterizes the explanatory method of presocratic philosophers, especially Empedocles, in terms of some of the components activated in the surviving texts.

Sagp 1961, Philip Merlan, Rosamond Sprague

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This is the announcement of the sessions with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association and with the American Philological Association for December 1961

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The Problem Of Anaxagoras, Margaret Reesor

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Anaxagoras held that the objects of sense perception, both entities and qualities, were existents, and not relative to the percipient, and that they formed a continuum which observed the criteria of Parmenides' being. Birth, dissolution, growth and change of quality were explained in terms of combination and separation. the opposites were inseparable and infinite in degree, and the parts of the spectrum were one. the opposites were used to account for sense perception as well as for pleasure and pain. Since animals and plants are all product of the same natural process, they are essentially alike. Man lives in a …

The Two States In Plato's Republic, Martin Ostwald

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Unlike the state of the Guardians which remains "set up as a model in heaven," there is, in Plato's view in the Republic, the faint hope that the state of the Philosopher may be possible.

Reason And Eros In The Ascent Passage Of The Symposium, Julius M.E. Moravcsik

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The purpose of this paper is limited to examining the roles which reason and eros play in the ascent, and to deal with some related ontological issues. The final vision is not an act of integration and coordination, but the intuiting of an entity not comprehended previously.

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Society For Ancient Greek Philosophy 1960 Program, Rosamond Kent Sprague

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Plato's Political Philosophy (Abstract), Ludwig Edelstein

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Plato had one consistent theory of politics; the Republic, Politicus, and Laws form a unity, complementary rather than contradictory. These dialogues are all theoretical, none provides a blueprint for political action. Political theory establishes the standard by which we must judge and thus allows us to act according to an aim.

Judgment And Thought In The Theaetetus, Thomas G. Rosenmeyer

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Translators have rendered doxa as "opinion", "belief", and "judgment", among other renderings. All three translations are subject to criticism. We analyze doxa as prompted by a present perception or by a past perception registered and resuscitated. There is also a doxa prompted by a Form, or complex of Forms.

Society For Ancient Greek Philosophy 1959 Program, Rosamond Kent Sprague

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The Metaphysical Foundations For Aristotle's Ethics, Thomas F. Gould

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Panpsychism And Immortality In Empedocles, Charles H. Kahn

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The general position of Empedocles in the matter of consciousness may be described as a rigorous panpsychism. In this view there is really no such thing as inanimate nature. It is the physis or composition of our body which accounts for, if it is not identical with, our psychic character and thought. At the same time, he distinguishes the wandering daimon from the four physical elements. The realm from which he has been banished can only be that of Love. Far from contradicting the physical poem, the doctrine of reincarnation and release constitutes its logical sequel, the coping-stone which completes …

Plato's Hypothesis And The Upward Path, Thomas G. Rosenmeyer

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In this paper I shall attempt to show that Aristotle's logical terminology, ontologically conditioned or determined as it obviously is, contrasts with that of Plato, who, on the whole, with perhaps one exception, was very careful not to introduce unwarranted ontological perspectives into matters of logic.