Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mouzala, Melina G.

Series:

Topics in Ancient Philosophy / Themen der Antiken Philosophie Series

Topics in Ancient Philosophy / Themen der Antiken Philosophie Series ; v.10

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (540 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023.

Summary:

This series provides a forum for monographs and collected volumes aiming at a philosophical discussion of the texts, topics, and arguments of ancient philosophers. The authors demonstrate that philosophical historiography not only paraphrases the claims of ancient authors, but can also reconstruct the arguments for those claims and consider ongoing discussions in modern philosophy, thus enriching the philosophical debate of our time.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: Ancient Greek Dialectic in Classical Antiquity

Dialectic as True Rhetoric in Plato's Gorgias

Socrates' "Flight into the Logoi": A Non-Standard Interpretation of the Founding Document of Plato's Dialectic

Friendly Fire: Dialectic Struggles between the Megarians and Plato

Eros on Stage: Dialogue and Dialectic in the Phaedrus

Dialectic and the Activity of the Soul when Reaching for Being and the Good in Plato's Theaetetus 184b3-186e12

Pursuing Self-Knowledge in Plato's Sophist. The Communion of the Sophistic and Socratic Dialectic in the Sixth Definition of the Sophist: A Reading Based on Proclus' Interpretation of Dialectic in the Sophist

On Plato's Late Dialectic: The Methods of Collection and Division

Sophistical Demonstrations: A Class of Arguments Entangled with False Peirastic and Pseudographemata

Part II: Reception, Interpretation, Development and Influence of Ancient Greek Dialectic in Late Antiquity and Byzantium

The Services of Dialectic: Dialectic as an Instrument for Metaphysics in Alexander of Aphrodisias

Aporiai with Multiple Solutions in Alexander of Aphrodisias

Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Principle of Non-Contradiction: The Argument "from Signification"

Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception in Origen of Alexandria: From Plato to Christ-Logos

Exegesis as Philosophy: Notes on Aristotelian Methods in Neoplatonic Commentary

Syrianus and the Dialectical Cosmos

Proclus on Plato's Dialectic: Argument by Performance

Elenchus and Syllogistic in Olympiodorus of Alexandria

Simplicius and Aristotle's Dialectic

Michael Psellos on Dialectic and Allegory

Index Locorum

Index Nominum

Index Rerum

Notes on the Contributors.

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ISBN:

9783110744149

3110744147

OCLC:

1394116941