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

This volume, the thirtieth year of published proceedings, contains five papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium m 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...