Oxford studies in ancient philosophy. Volume LIX, Winter 2020 / editor, Victor Caston.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caston, Victor, 1963- editor.

Series:

Oxford studies in ancient philosophy, 0265-7651 ; 59

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle.

Carneades, active 2nd century B.C.

Carneades.

Empedocles.

Plato.

Philosophy, Ancient--Periodicals.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Genre:

Periodicals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Oxford studies in ancient philosophy. Volume 59

Studies in ancient philosophy

Ancient philosophy.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

'Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy' provides, twice each year, a collection of the best current work in the field of ancient philosophy. Each volume features original essays that contribute to an understanding of a wide range of themes and problems in all periods of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, from the beginnings to the threshold of the middle ages. Volume LIX contains an examination of: Aristotle’s reception of Empedocles’ ideas about harmonia and love in developing his own conception of the soul; Plato’s portrayal of the disembodied soul and how it can be the subject of bodily desires; how the philosopher rulers in Plato’s Republic are motivated to rule through bonds of philia to their fellow citizens; how Aristotle, while denying that there are magnitudes that are actually infinite, allows that there are infinitely many things; Aristotle’s distinction between the many senses of being in MetaphysicsΔ. 7 and the relation between existence and predication; and the explanation of Carneades’ reasons for not writing philosophical works in Philodemus’ Index Academicorum (PHerc. 1021).

Contents:

Cover

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Volume Lix Winter 2020

Copyright

Advisory Board

Contents

Thinking with Empedocles: Aristotle on the Soul as Harmonia

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

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X

XI

XII

Bibliography

Bodily Desires and Afterlife Punishment in the Phaedo

1. The problem of bodily desires in the Phaedo

2. The person, the soul, and bodily desires

3. Bodily desires and the disembodied soul

3.1. The ghost story (80 e 1-81 e 3)

3.2. The myth (107 d 2-114 c 8)

3.3. Bodily desires in the ghost story

3.4. Bodily desires in the myth

3.5. The nature of afterlife punishment in the myth

4. Is the soul the only subject of bodily desires?

5. Conclusion

Moral Motivation in Plato's Republic? Philia and the Return to the Cave

1. Eudaemonism and morality

2. Love and moral motivation: from eros̄ to philia

3. From mutual interdependence to philia

4. Political friendship: equality, reciprocity, and unity

5. Return to the cave

6. Clarification and potential objections

7. Ruling and eudaimonia

8. Philia and moral motivation

Aristotle's Actual Infinities

1. Introduction

1.1. What is at stake

1.2. Some clarifications

1.3. Infinite pluralities in Aristotle? Initial evidence for and against

1.4. Infinite pluralities in Aristotle: outline of our argument

2. Number

2.1. Number and plurality

2.2. Context: number means number

2.3. A return to Metaphysics Δ. 13

3. Infinite by division

3.1. Considerations in favour of the smallness reading

4. Potentiality and becoming

4.1. Problems with processes

4.2. A different approach

Aristotle on the Many Senses of Being

1. The senses of being and the necessity of Δ. 7.

2. How the different distinctions relate, and distinctions that are not drawn

3. 1-place and 2-place being and their causes

4. Being per se and the methodology of Posterior Analytics 2

5. Causes of being per se, investigating essences, and being as truth

6. From Δ. 7 to ZH: causes of being per se

7. From Δ. 7 to Θ: causes of being in potentiality and in actuality

Appendix: Arguments that Aristotle did not intend Δ as part of the Metaphysics

New Evidence on Carneades: Reasons for his Avoidance of Writing and an Epistemological Pun

2. Carneades and Philodemus' Index Academicorum (Dorandi 1991)

3. The Athenian embassy to Rome in the Index Academicorum (col. 22, middle)

4. Carneades in the Index Academicorum-A New Edition (col. 22. 1-17)

5. Carneades' reasons for not composing treatises (col. 22. 3-7)

6. Carneades' pupils and his persistent argument with Chrysippus (col. 22. 7-11)

7. The Stoic Diogenes' puns with Carneades about philosophical terms (col. 22. 11-17)

8. Philodemus' source(s) for Carneades' biography

9. Conclusion-New evidence on Carneades (Philod. Index Acad. col. 22. 1-17)

Index Locorum

Notes for Contributors to Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-260274-8

0-19-189162-2

0-19-260273-X

OCLC:

1265461213