Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy: Volume XXIX

by Gary Gurtler (Editor), William Wians (Editor)

Overview

This volume, the twenty-ninth year of published proceedings, contains six papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2012-13. The paper topics include: Glaucon's fate in the Republic, divine creation and human responsibility in the Timaeus, Aristotle on orexis in generation, on the biological use of analogy and finally on dialectic as proto-phenomenological, and lastly, Proclus on likeness and unlikeness as ontological first principles.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789004268364
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	06/15/2014
Series:	Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy , #29
Edition description:	Bilingual
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Gary M. Gurtler, S.J., is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He has published on ancient philosophy, with special attention to Neoplatonism, including Plotinus: The Experience of Unity (1988), and 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. His collection Logos and Muthos: Philosophical Essays in Greek Literature was recently published.

Contributors include Sara Ahbel-Rappe, Pieter d’Hoine, David George, Devin Henry, Jacob Howland, Sean Kelsey, Sean Kirkland, Mariska Leunissen, Michael Shaw, Allan Silverman, Susan Sauvé Meyer and William Wians.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Notes on Contributors viii

Colloquium 1 The Forms of Likeness and Unlikeness in Proclus Pieter d'Hoine 1

Commentary on d'Hoine Sara Ahbel-Rappe 38

d'Hoine/Ahbel-Rappe Bibliography 53

Colloquium 2 "God is Not To Blame": Divine Creation and Human Responsibility Plato's Timaeus Susan Sauvé Meyer 55

Commentary on Sauvé Meyer Allan Silverman 70

Sauve Meyer/Silverman Bibliography 75

Colloquium 3 Unqualified Generation in Aristotle's Natural Philosophy Michael M. Shaw 77

Commentary on Shaw Sean Kelsey 107

Shaw/Kelsey Bibliography 111

Colloquium 4 Glaucon's Fate: Plato's Republic and the Drama of the Soul Jacob Howland 113

Commentary on Howland David B. George 137

Howland/George Bibliography 143

Colloquium 5 The Birds and the Bees: Aristotle 012 the Biological Concept of αναλογον Devin Henry 145

Commentary on Henry Mariska Leunissen 170

Henry/Leunissen Bibliography 182

Colloquium 6 Dialectic and Proto-Phenomenology in Aristotle's Topics and Physics Sean D. Kirkland 185

Commentary on Kirkland William Wians 214

Kirkland/Wians Bibliography 224

Index of Names 227