Modern thinkers and ancient thinkers : the Stanley Victor Keeling Memorial Lectures at University College London, 1981-1991
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Modern thinkers and ancient thinkers : the Stanley Victor Keeling Memorial Lectures at University College London, 1981-1991
UCL Press, 1993
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"The Stanley Victor Keeling Memorial Lecture at University College London in March each year ..., the first lecture being given by Anthony Kenny in 1981."--Pref
Includes bibliographies and indexes
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Description
In this volume of distinguished contributions, topics are included from every major area of philosophy that concerned the ancients -- physics and metaphysics, psychology, ethics and politics, as well as logic. "Modern thinkers and ancient thinkers" is significant not only for the particular topics discussed but also as showing how leading thinkers of today approach ancient philosophy and what they find of value in it for themselves. The reader will find here the views of Elizabeth Anscombe and Donald Davidson on aspects of Plato, and of Hilary Putnam, Michael Frede and Anthony Kenny on issues in Aristotle. The volume opens with a discussion by Denis O'Brien of Parmenides, Plato and Plotinus, which sets the agenda by raising important questions about the way in which we should approach the history of philosophy. There are contributions by Montgomery Furth on Anaxagoras and by Gregory Vlastos on Socrates, and the sequence concludes with Jonathan Barnes' discussion of advances in logical theory in later antiquity. The book comprises the first ten S.V. Keeling Memorial Lectures given at University College London, a series founded in 1980 through the generosity of an anonymous donor.
Some of the speakers are best known as distinguished specialists in the study of ancient Greek philosophy, but the organizing committee has also made a point of inviting major contemporary philosophers who have an interest in the ancients, even though their main work is not in that area. The Keeling Lectures will not only continue but be complemented by a series of colloquia, with the same aim of emphasising links between modern and ancient philosophy. The first two (also to be published by UCL Press) will be on Aristotle and moral realism (in 1994) and on Descartes and ancient philosophy (in 1995). "Modern thinkers and ancient thinkers" will be welcomed by philosophers and classicists, graduate students and anyone with an interest in ancient Greek philosophy.
Table of Contents
- Non-being in Greek philosophy: Parmenides, Plato, Plotinus Denis O'Brien, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris
- A philosophical hero? Anaxagoras and the Eleatics Montgomery Furth, University of California, Los Angeles
- The historical Socrates and Athenian democracy Gregory Vlastos [deceased]
- The origin of Plato's theory of forms Elizabeth Anscombe, University of Cambridge
- Plato's philosopher Donald Davidson, University of California, Berkeley
- Aristotle after Wittgenstein Hilary Putnam, Harvard University
- On Aristotle's conception of the soul Michael Frede, University of Oxford
- Aristotle on moral luck Anthony Kenny, Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford
- "A third sort of syllogism": Galen and the logic of relations Jonathan Barnes, University of Oxford
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