Thinking, knowing, acting : epistemology and ethics in Plato and ancient Platonism / edited by Mauro Bonazzi, Angela Ulacco, Filippo Forcignanò.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bonazzi, Mauro, 1973- editor.

Ulacco, Angela, editor.

Forcignanò, Filippo, editor.

Series:

Brill's Plato Studies Series 3.

Brill's Plato studies series, 2452-2945; volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Ethics.

Platonists.

Plato.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.

Summary:

The volume Thinking, Knowing, Acting: Epistemology and Ethics in Plato and Ancient Platonism aims to offer a fresh perspective on the correlation between epistemology and ethics, a topic of central importance in the Platonic tradition which has not yet received the attention it deserves. The first part deals with the social, juridical premises of Plato’s philosophy, with particular regard to the relation between science and practical reason. The second part investigates the reception and development of these problems in Aristotle and the Platonic tradition. Other papers, on Solon and Galen, show that the conflict between knowledge and political action was also a central topic for the other Greek thinkers and contribute by contrast to a better evaluation of the originality of Platonism.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Introduction

Acting and Knowing before Plato: on Solon’s Theodicy / Mauro Bonazzi

Plato and the ‘Performative Contradiction’ / Franco Trabattoni

Self-knowledge and Politics in the Alcibiades i / Albert Joosse

Plato’s Journey through the Conflict: Knowledge, Action and καιρός in the Syracusan Experience / Filippo Forcignanò

Learning from the Gods: Episteme and Politics in Plato’s Menexenus / Emilia Cucinotta

Der beste Logos als Handlungskriterium in Platons Kriton / Sabrina Mertler

Das δαιμόνιον im Theages und der Weg zur Weisheit / Giusy Maria Margagliotta

The Theaetetus Digression: an Ethical Interlude in an Epistemological Dialogue? / Emanuele Maffi

Kompsoi Logoi / Mariapaola Bergomi

Aristotle’s Method of Inquiry in Eudemian Ethics 1 and 2 / Andrea Falcon

Is the Phronimos Shame-Less? / Marilù Papandreou

The telos of Assimilation to God and the Conflict between theoria and praxis in Plato and the Middle Platonists / Paolo Torri

Wissen und Meinung im anonymen Theaitetoskommentar / Bernd Hene

The Theory of Mixtures and Its Ethical Implications: Role and Responsibility of the Galenic Physician / Maria Luisa Garofalo

Selbstbewegung und Kreisbewegung. Autokinēsis in Plotin anhand der Enn. 6, 9, 8 [9] / Giovanni Panno

Back Matter

Index of Modern Authors.

ISBN:

90-04-39899-6

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004398993 DOI