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Articles 1 - 9 of 9
Full-Text Articles in History of Philosophy
Sagp Newsletter 2008/9.1 East Philol, Anthony Preus
Sagp Newsletter 2008/9.1 East Philol, Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Announcement of SAGP programs with the American Philological Association and with the American Philosophical Association 2008/2009 academic year.
Sagp/Ssips 2008 Program, Anthony Preus
Sagp/Ssips 2008 Program, Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Sagp/Ssips 2008 Abstract Collection, Anthony Preus
Sagp/Ssips 2008 Abstract Collection, Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Belief And Persuasion In The Socratic Elenchus, Dylan Futter
Belief And Persuasion In The Socratic Elenchus, Dylan Futter
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Perhaps the most remarkable feature of Socrates’ philosophical method is how unsuccessful it is. One problem is that elenchus seems able only to destroy common belief without generating anything substantive in its place. Another is that it seems incapable of getting anyone to relinquish his unsupported beliefs. Plato is acutely aware of these problems. In the Meno, he undertakes to show that Socrates’ method of inquiry is capable of generating substantive results. In the Gorgias, he reveals why some people are not moved by reasoned argument. And in the Republic he proposes a complex model of moral belief-formation, …
Aristotle's Abstract Ontology, Allan Bäck
Aristotle's Abstract Ontology, Allan Bäck
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Aristotle has a metaphysics of individual substances, substrata persisting through time that are neither in nor said of a subject. That I do not dispute. However, when we move from the individual to the universal, from perception to knowledge, Aristotle has a metaphysics of relations. This I will try to sketch out here.
Aristotle appeals to abstraction at key places in his philosophy. Somehow abstraction gets us to the first principles and to the objects of the most fundamental sciences. Somehow universals are abstracted from singulars and have no transcendent existence.
Aristotle never states his theory of abstraction formally or …
Plato And Aristotle On The Instant Of Change - A Dilemma, John Bowin
Plato And Aristotle On The Instant Of Change - A Dilemma, John Bowin
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
There is an ancient puzzle about motion in Plato at Parmenides 155e-157b which has been the subject of scholarship by Richard Sorabji and more recently, Nico Strobach.1 The puzzle, as Plato gives it, can be roughly summarized as follows: At every time, a given object must either be in motion or at rest; there is no third possibility. Also, an object can never be simultaneously both in motion and at rest. The only way for an object to be both in motion and at rest is for it to be in motion and at rest at different times. But how …
Sagp Newsletter 2007/8.2 Pacific Central, Anthony Preus
Sagp Newsletter 2007/8.2 Pacific Central, Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Appetites And Actions In Aristotle's Moral Psychology, Tom Olshewsky
Appetites And Actions In Aristotle's Moral Psychology, Tom Olshewsky
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
The so-called practical syllogism is best understood in dispositional terms. Animate movement originates with orexis (appetite), but appetite is the result of the coming together of dual dispositions, the orektikon and the orekton. For calculative appetite, multiple objectives can be imagined, and deliberation determines which objective is best for this person in this circumstance. Deliberation is an antecedent of the actualized appetite, not its consequence. This psychology makes clear that satisfaction of appetites is a two-stage process for calculative beings: first the determination of the appetite, then movement to fulfillment in its objective. In deliberation, the determination is which …
Persuasion And Force In Plato's Republic, Christopher Moore
Persuasion And Force In Plato's Republic, Christopher Moore
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Despite the frequent pairing of and contrast between persuasion and force, Plato’s Republic undermines any coherent split between these two modes of handling others. This paper provides two major pieces of evidence to support this claim: (i) Book I dramatizes the weakness of the distinction; and (ii) the arguments that the best rulers will rule only under coercion (in Books I, V, VII, and IX) makes the distinction into an obvious conundrum. Further evidence omitted here is Plato’s tendency to subvert this same rhetorically popular binary elsewhere, especially Statesman, Sophist and Laws. Given that Plato doesn’t explicitly question the persuasion-force …