Presocratics and Plato : essays in honour of Denis O'Brien

Author(s)

• Stern-Gillet, Suzanne
• Corrigan, Kevin

Bibliographic Information

Presocratics and Plato : essays in honour of Denis O'Brien

edited by Suzanne Stern-Gillet and Kevin Corrigan

（Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 161 . Reading ancient texts ; v. 1）

Brill, 2007

Note

Bibliography of Denis O'Brien's works: p. [213]-220

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

What is the history of philosophy? Is it history or is it philosophy or is it by some strange alchemy a confluence of the two? The contributors to the present volume of essays have tackled this seemingly simple, but in reality difficult and controversial, question, by drawing on their specialised knowledge of the surviving texts of leading ancient philosophers, from the Presocratics to Augustine, through Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus. These contributions, which reflect the range of methods and approaches currently used in the study of ancient texts, are offered as a tribute to the scholarship of Denis O'Brien, one of the most original and penetrating students of the thousand-year period of intense philosophical activity that constitutes ancient philosophy. Contributors include: T. Ebert, F. Fronterrota, C.J. Gill, C. Huffman, N. Notomi, J.-C. Picot, J.-F. Pradeau, M. Rashed, K. Sayre, R.K. Sprague, and J.G.C. Strachan. Publications by Denis O'Brien: * Theories of Weight in the Ancient World: Four Essays on Democritus, Plato and Aristotle - A Study in the Development of Ideas. 1. Democritus: Weight and Size. An Exercise in the Reconstruction of Early Greek Philosophy, ISBN: 978 90 04 06134 7 (Out of print) * Pour interpreter Empedocle, ISBN: 978 90 04 06249 8 (Out of print) * Theories of Weight in the Ancient World: Four Essays on Democritus, Plato and Aristotle - A Study in the Development of Ideas. 2. Plato: Weight and Sensation. The Two Theories of the 'Timaeus', ISBN: 978 90 04 06934 3 * Theodicee plotinienne, theodicee gnostique, ISBN: 978 90 04 09618 9

Table of Contents

Preface Notes on Contributors I. PRESOCRATICS 1. Some Remarks on noein in Parmenides, F. Fronterotta 2. The Structure of the Eye and its Cosmological Function in Empedocles. Reconstruction of Fragment 84, M. Rashed 3. Empedocles, Fragment 115.3: Can One of the Blessed Pollute his Limbs with Blood?, J.-C. Picot 4. Philolaus and the Central Fire, C. Huffman II. PLATO 5. Self-Knowledge in Plato's Alcibiades, C. Gill 6. Socrates on the Definition of Figure in the Meno, T. Ebert 7. Plato's Phaedo as Protreptic, R.K. Sprague 8. An Absurd Question: Plato, Symposium 199 d, J.C.G. Strachan 9. Tumescence and Spiritual Seed in the Phaedrus, J.-F. Pradeau 10. Plato against Parmenides: Sophist 236D - 242B, N. Notomi 11. Dialectic by Negation in Three Late Dialogues, K. Sayre A Detailed Bibliography of Denis O'Brien's Works Index locorum General Index

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Details

• NCID: BA85823886
• ISBN:
  • 9789004165090
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: xxv, 226 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • FREE : O'Brien, Denis, 1936-
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0144067X