Ancient models of mind : studies in human and divine rationality

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Ancient models of mind : studies in human and divine rationality

edited by Andrea Nightingale and David Sedley

Cambridge University Press, 2015, c2010

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"First paperback edition 2015"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-247) and index

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How does God think? How, ideally, does a human mind function? Must a gap remain between these two paradigms of rationality? Such questions exercised the greatest ancient philosophers, including those featured in this book: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Plotinus. This volume encompasses a series of studies by leading scholars, revisiting key moments of ancient philosophy and highlighting the theme of human and divine rationality in both moral and cognitive psychology. It is a tribute to Professor A. A. Long, and reflects multiple themes of his own work.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Plato on aporia and self-knowledge Andrea Wilson Nightingale
  • 2. Cross-examining happiness: reason and community in the Socratic dialogues of Plato Sara Ahbel-Rappe
  • 3. Inspiration, recollection, and mimesis in Plato's Phaedrus Kathryn A. Morgan
  • 4. Plato's Theaetetus as an ethical dialogue David Sedley
  • 5. Divine contemplating mind Allan Silverman
  • 6. Aristotle and the history of Skepticism Alan Code
  • 7. Stoic selection: objects, actions, and agents Stephen White
  • 8. Beauty and its relation to goodness in Stoicism Richard Bett
  • 9. How dialectical was Stoic dialectic? Luca Castagnoli
  • 10. Socrates speaks in Seneca, De vita beata 24-28 James Ker
  • 11. Seneca's Platonism: the soul and its divine origin Gretchen Reydams-Schils
  • 12. The status of the individual in Plotinus Kenneth Wolfe
  • A. A. Long: Publications 1963-2009
  • Index locorum
  • General index.

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