Overview

This volume, the sixth year of published proceedings, contains eleven papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during the academic year 1989-90. The commentators take up the themes of these papers, in some instances developing and building on the main argument, while in others offering direct challenges to the principal author’s thesis.

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Author:   John J. Cleary ,  Gary M. Gurtler, S.J.
Publisher:   University Press of America
Imprint:   University Press of America
Edition:   6th ed.
Volume:   6
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9780819184009

ISBN 10:   0819184004
Pages:   518
Publication Date:   30 May 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Origins, Arche and Phaedrus, R.J. Hankison; Form and Generation in Aristotle, Jennifer Whiting; Aristotle's Doctrine of the Proper End of Man - Some Observations, Robert Renehan; Plato on Ignorance and Akrasia, John Ferrari; The Invulnerability of Goodness - The Ethical and Psychological Theory of Plotinus, John Bussanich; Fatalism and Future Truth, Dorothea Frede; Why Atoms Had to Swerve - An Exploration in Epicurean Physics, Peter Bicknell; Nous, Theoria and the Wise Man in Book X of Aristotle's ""Ethics"", Ronna Burger; The God-Given Way - Reflections on Methods and the Good in the Later Plato, Mitchell Miller; The Theory and Practice of Aristotelean Demonstration, Geoffrey Lloyd; Epicurean Thought, David Glidden. (Part Contents)"

Reviews

"""The Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy is known for scholarship of the highest caliber."" F. A. Grabowski, (Rogers State University) in CHOICE, vol. 53, no. 5 (2016)"

Author Information

John J. Cleary is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at NUI, Maynooth (Ireland). He received his B.A. and M.A. from University College, Dublin, and his Ph.D. from Boston University in 1982. He was director of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy from 1984 to 1988, and is the founding general editor of this series of proceedings. He has published extensively on ancient philosophy, including a monograph on Aristotle and Mathematics (Leiden, 1995). Currently he is studying the role of paideia in ancient political thought. Daniel C. Shartin is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross, where he teaches courses in ancient philosophy, logic, and philosophy of mind. Prof. Shartin received his Ph.D. in philosophy from UCLA. He has written on Aristotle's Categories and Metaphysics, and currently he is working on the middle Platonic dialogues.

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