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Studies on Plato, Aristotle and Proclus : collected essays on ancient philosophy of John J. Cleary / edited by John Dillon, Brendan O'Byrne, Fran O'Rourke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cleary, John J.
- Series:
- Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts ; v. 15.
- Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts : studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, 1871-188X ; v. 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Plato.
- Aristotle.
- Proclus, approximately 410-485.
- Proclus.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (639 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- John J. Cleary (1949–2009) was an internationally recognised authority in many aspects of ancient philosophy. As well as penetrating and original studies of Plato, Aristotle, and Proclus, he was particularly interested in the philosophy of mathematics, and ancient theories of education. The essays included in this collection display Cleary’s range of expertise and originality of approach. Cleary was especially attentive to the problems involved in the interpretation of a philosophical text: in his reading of Plato he recognised the special status of dialogue as a privileged mode of philosophical writing. His underlying concern was the open-ended character of philosophy itself, to be pursued with intellectual rigour and respect both for the question and one’s interlocutor. These collected essays are representative of John Cleary’s philosophical life’s work.
- Contents:
- Front Matter / John Dillon , Brendan O’Byrne and Fran O’Rourke
- Back to the Texts Themselves
- The Paideia of the Historical Protagoras
- Competing Models of Paideia in Plato’s Gorgias
- Erotic Paideia in Plato’s Symposium
- Cultivating Intellectual Virtue in Plato’s Philosopher-Rulers
- Paideia in Plato’s Laws
- Socratic Influences on Aristotle’s Ethical Inquiry
- Akrasia and Moral Education in Aristotle
- The Mathematical Cosmology of Plato’s Timaeus
- Abstracting Aristotle’s Philosophy of Mathematics
- Proclus’ Philosophy of Mathematics
- Plato’s Teleological Atomism
- The Role of Theology in Plato’s Laws
- ‘Powers that Be’: The Concept of Potency in Plato and Aristotle
- On the Terminology of ‘Abstraction’ in Aristotle
- Science, Universals, and Reality
- Phainomena in Aristotle’s Methodology
- Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato’s Theory of Form Numbers
- Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato’s First Principles
- Should One Pray for Aristotle’s Best Polis?
- Emending Aristotle’s Division of Theoretical Sciences
- Proclus’ Elaborate Defence of Platonic Ideas
- Proclus as a Reader of Plato’s Timaeus
- The Rationality of the Real: Proclus and Hegel
- Plato’s Philebus as a Gadamerian Conversation?
- Bibliographies / John Dillon , Brendan O’Byrne and Fran O’Rourke
- Index of Modern Authors / John Dillon , Brendan O’Byrne and Fran O’Rourke.
- Notes:
- Title from PDF title page (viewed on Feb. 20, 2013).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contains:
- Cleary, John J. Paideia of historical Protagoras.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-10478-9
- 90-04-24784-X
- OCLC:
- 828299360
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004247840 DOI
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