Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XXX (2014)

by Brill

Overview

This volume, the thirtieth year of published proceedings, contains five papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2013-14. The paper topics include: pleasure in the Philebus under the rubric of the fourfold structure of reality; the tension between the good of the city and the good of the citizens in the Republic; the relation of self-knowledge to dialectic in Theaetetus and Alcibiades I; a close examination of the interplay of the characters in the Sophist to counter Plato’s replacement of Socrates by the Eleatic Stranger; and three autobiographical passages in different dialogues to establish philosophical practice as intellectual and emotional together.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789004296589
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	06/22/2015
Series:	Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy , #30
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Gary M. Gurtler, S.J., is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He has published on ancient philosophy, including 2 books, Plotinus: The Experience of Unity (1988) and Ennead IV.4.30-45, IV.5, Translation and Commentary (2015), as well as articles on Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus.

William Wians is Professor of Philosophy at Merrimack College. He has edited five previous volumes of BACAP proceedings and written numerous articles and reviews on ancient philosophy. A collection of his work was published as Logos and Muthos: Philosophical Essays in Greek Literature (2009). A second volume is in preparation.

Contributors include Zina Giannopoulou, Jill Gordon, Drew Hyland, Cristina Ionescu, Marina McCoy, John Partridge, Gerasimos Santas, Anne-Marie Schultz, Rachel Singpurwalla, and Suzanne Stern-Gillet.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Notes on Contributors viii

Colloquium 1 The Place of Pleasure and Knowledge in the Fourfold Ontological Model of Plato's Philebus 1

Commentary on Ionescu Cristina Ionescu 33

Ionescu/McCoy Bibliography Marina McCoy 38

Colloquium 2 Plato on the Good of the City-state in the Republic 41

Commentary on Santas Gerasimos Santas 63

Santas/Singpurwalla Bibliography Rachel Singpurwalla 71

Colloquium 3 Self-Knowledge in Plato's Theaetetus and Alcibiades 1 73

Commentary on Giannopoulou Zina Giannopoulou 95

Giannopoulou /Partridge Bibliography John Partridge 100

Colloquium 4 Strange Encounters: Theaetetus, Theodorus, Socrates, and the Eleatic Stranger 103

Commentary on Hyland Drew A. Hyland 118

Hyland/Gordon Bibliography Jill Gordon 122

Colloquium 5 Socrates on Socrates: Looking Back to Bring Philosophy Forward 123

Commentary on Schultz Anne-Marie Schultz 142

Schultz/Stern-Gillet Bibliography Suzanne Stern-Gillet 156

Index of Names 159