Oxford studies in ancient philosophy. Volume 62, Summer 2022 / editor, Victor Caston ; associated editor, Rachana Kamtekar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caston, Victor, 1963- editor.

Kamtekar, Rachana, 1965- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Ancient--Periodicals.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages)

Other Title:

Studies in ancient philosophy

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

'Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy' is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.

Contents:

Cover

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

Copyright

Advisory Board

Contents

Opposites and Explanations in Heraclitus

1. Introduction

2. Preliminaries on explanation and opposites

3. Opposites in Heraclitus' predecessors

4. Opposites as explananda

5. Against a metaphysical foundation

6. Metaphysical interdependence

7. Conclusion: Opposites and explanation

Bibliography

Evaluative Illusion in Plato's Protagoras

2. Akrasia in the Protagoras

3. The puzzle of temporal distortion

4. The non-rationalinterpretation

5. What are appearances?

6. What is the power of appearance?

7. Why do proximate pleasures appear greater?

8. Conclusion

That Difference Is Different from Being: Sophist 255 c 9-e 2

2. Text, translation, and linguistic concerns

3. 'Participated in both forms' at 255 d 4 and the ὥσπερ τὸ ὄν clause

4. Reading the argument with ὥσπερ τὸ ὄν adjoined to the apodosis

5. Conclusion

Is Plato a Consequentialist?

2. Consequentialist principles in the Republic and the Laws

2.1. Laws and consequentialist principles

2.2. Principle H and consequentialism

3. Objections to consequentialism in Plato

4. Evidence for and against consequentialism in Plato

4.1. Demandingness

4.2. The do/allow distinction

4.3. Doing bad things

4.4. Impartiality

5. The harm principle

6. The Laws' theology

6.1. The petteia-player

6.2. Why does the Coincidence obtain?

6.3. Rational eudaemonism, A1, and the Coincidence

6.4. Book 10's theology and our self-understanding

Aristotle's Argument for the Necessity of What We Understand

1. We think we only understand necessities?

2. Understanding as a relative.

2.1. Understanding is not simultaneous with its object

2.2. What are the objects of understanding?

2.3. Is the dependency principle specific to scientific understanding?

3. Understanding as a state

3.1. The tension between the two principles

4. A tempting solution

5. Aristotle's argument for the necessity of what we understand

5.1. Why does Aristotle hold that contingencies are KOWT?

5.2. How does the claim that contingencies are KOWT establish that understanding is of necessities?

6. Objections

6.1. Objection 1: Durability without eternal truth

6.2. Objection 2: Eternal truth without necessity

7. Concluding remarks

Aristotle on Digestion, Self-Motion, and the Eternity of the Universe: A Discussion of Physics 8. 6 and De somno

2. Physics 8. 6: The difficulty and its context

3. The passage (Physics 8. 6, 259b1-20)

4. Three interpretations and their shortcomings

5. A new interpretation and its evidence in Physics 8

6. De somno on sleep and digestion

7. Temporal continuity and the ou kuriōs claim in Physics 8. 6

8. The broader context

Giving Gifts and Making Friends: Seneca's De beneficiis on How to Expand One's Sphere of Ethical Concern

2. The Stoic ideal

3. Benefaction, joint activity, and friendship

4. The uniqueness of benefaction and self-sufficiency

5. Conclusion: Friendship and oikeiōsis

Hierocles' Concentric Circles

1. Four puzzles about the circles

2. Is Hierocles advocating complete impartiality?

3. Do the circles illustrate the theory of oikeios̄ is?

4. Finding out what is appropriate

5. Hierocles' investigation of duties

6. Organic parts within parts

7. The circles as organic parts of the universal body

8. Solving the puzzles about the circles.

Bibliography

Archaic Epistemology: A Discussion of Jessica Moss, Plato's Epistemology: Being and Seeming

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Index Locorum

Notes for Contributors to Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 21, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Caston, Victor Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 62

ISBN:

0-19-198064-1

0-19-288531-6