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The University of Chicago Press Socrates Founding Political Philosophy in
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The University of Chicago Press Platos Sophist
Book Synopsis"Theaetus," the "Sophist," and the "Statesman" are a trilogy of Platonic dialgues that show Socrates formulating his conception of philosophy as he prepares the defense for his trial. Originally published together as "The Being of the Beautiful
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The University of Chicago Press Platos Statesman
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The University of Chicago Press The Laws of Plato
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The University of Chicago Press Reason and Character The Moral Foundations of
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Pangle’s book offers a singularly illuminating, meticulous, and learned examination of one of the two central works of classical political philosophy: Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. (The other central work is Plato’s Republic.) Her argument that Aristotle ultimately offers a subtle, humane, socially responsible critique of the more conventional accounts of moral responsibility is all the more powerful because of her attention to Aristotle’s overall discussion and because of her careful exegesis of the text.” -- Peter Ahrensdorf, Davidson College“In Reason and Character, Pangle brings her considerable interpretive skills to bear on foundational questions in the classical tradition. She opens new pathways in the study of Aristotle, adeptly engages the scholarly literature, and offers compelling solutions to long-standing debates regarding the Nicomachean Ethics.” -- Susan D. Collins, University of Notre Dame"Anyone working on the texts described would find them an invaluable aid. Philosophy students who are not reading Greek would also find them helpful gateways into Plato’s and Aristotle’s thoughts on these moral problems. [Pangle] quotes from other scholars generously, including when she disagrees, and her notes and references are extensive. This enterprise is exactly what she has said it is: the fruit of lengthy pondering on two difficult authors, in a notoriously problematic area of moral philosophy, leading to a new and illuminating synthesis between them." * Classics for All (Praise for Virtue is Knowledge and Reason and Character) *"Reason and Character is a challenging, searching, and meticulous examination of a classic text. It should be read by everyone who wishes to understand the Nicomachean Ethics." * Claremont Review of Books *"Examining questions that have perplexed generations of scholars, Pangle offers a fresh approach not simply through careful attention to the inquiry’s dialectical nature, but through her own lively dialogue with Aristotle." * Review of Politics *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Task and the Puzzle of Reason in the Nicomachean Ethics (NE 1 and 2) 2. Knowledge, Choice, and Responsibility for Character (NE 3.1–5) 3. Reason and Purpose in the Moral Virtues (NE 3.6–4.9) 4. Justice and the Rule of Reason (NE 5) 5. Wisdom and Active Wisdom: The Intellectual Virtues (NE 6) 6. Problems of Self-Control (NE 7.1–10) Epilogue: The Philosophic Life (NE 10.6–8) Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography of Modern Works and Editions Index
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The University of Chicago Press Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw
Book SynopsisWe tend to think of rhetoric as a solely human art. After all, only humans can use language artfully to make a point, the very definition of rhetoric. Yet when you look at ancient and early modern treatises on rhetoric, what you find is surprising: they're crawling with animals. With Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw, Debra Hawhee explores this unexpected aspect of early thinking about rhetoric, going on from there to examine the enduring presence of nonhuman animals in rhetorical theory and education. In doing so, she not only offers a counter-history of rhetoric but also brings rhetorical studies into dialogue with animal studies, one of the most vibrant areas of interest in humanities today. By removing humanity and human reason from the center of our study of argument, Hawhee frees up space to study and emphasize other crucial components of communication, like energy, bodies, and sensation. Drawing on thinkers from Aristotle to Erasmus, Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw tells a new story of the discipline's history and development, one animated by the energy, force, liveliness, and diversity of our relationships with our partners in feeling, other animals.Trade Review“In Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw, Hawhee goes back to the birth of rhetoric, in classical texts, including Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics and Rhetoric, and close in the early Renaissance, when these works enjoyed a revival.” * Times Literary Supplement *"Hawhee's complex, nuanced, important argument will inform both the study of rhetoric (and its history) and the more recent turn to animal studies, providing the latter with historical background stretching back as far as Aristotle....Highly recommended." * Choice *“Lively enough for advanced undergraduates with some classical training, as well as graduate courses in the history of rhetoric (or a contemporary theory unit on stylistics). Researchers interested in the classics, animals, or theory in general will of course value this fine-grained approach that turns up many illuminating ideas.” * Rhetoric Review *“An illuminating exposition on the deep relationship between language and nonhuman animals. . . .Hawhee’s book succeeds at introducing a fascinatingly new approach to animal studies and rhetoric.” * The British Society for Literature and Science *“This is an important work for students of the history and theory of rhetoric. Hawhee makes an exemplary case of the human-animal relationship as a rhetorical model for sensation and perception, providing readers with a conceptual vocabulary that enables a rigorous discussion of nonrational elements of rhetoric. What follows is an explanation and pedagogy of style that is more concretely and pragmatically rhetorical than any scholarship to date.” * Gregory Clark, author of Civic Jazz: American Music and Kenneth Burke on the Art of Getting Along *“In Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw, Hawhee not only offers an important new historical perspective on rhetoric but also develops an understanding that can account for the full complexity involved in an act of persuasion. Focusing on the centrality of animals for both the practice and teaching of rhetoric in ancient and pre-modern times, she illuminates with admirable clarity the collaborative relationship of logos and alogos, making evident the force of feeling and sensation in the creation and communication of understanding. Her study both invites and compels us to rethink what rhetoric is and leads to a significantly richer understanding of the multi-dimensional activity of mind that we call thought. Challenging the standard opposition of rational and non-rational, she shows how these two aspects often work in necessary collaboration to produce a fuller and more nuanced understanding. In addition, she demonstrates the reach of rhetoric’s appreciation of nature in the shaping of the progymnasmata not only as a rich source of pedagogical training and cultural imagination but also as an equally important disciplined attention to empirical observation that contributed to the rise of modern science. This is a wonderful book that enlarges the way that we can think about rhetoric and that powerfully reconnects the human with the rest of the animal kingdom, establishing a continuum that better explains what it means to be a sentient creature responsive to environments of threat and possibility.” -- James L. Kastely * author of The Rhetoric of Plato's Republic: Democracy and the Philosophical Problem of Persuasion *“Animals flourish in and insects infest rhetorical theory, but who before Hawhee ever noticed? Her zoo of nonhuman animals tells us a lot about another animal whose animality has also been long neglected: the human animal. Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw puts the animal back into Aristotle’s political animal via a tour d’horizon of the core curriculum in the western world. Against the idealized rationalism of some models of deliberation and the pejorative denunciation of rhetoric as basely emotional, animals in Hawhee’s artful hands show us a way to a rhetoric that is at once feeling, sensing, thinking, and artful—aesthetic in the original sense.” * John Durham Peters, author of The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media *“In Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw, Hawhee offers an original and compelling counter-history of premodern rhetorical theory and practice in which the alogos shared by all animal beings is situated at the very heart of language education and human communications. Indeed, in Hawhee’s luminous rereadings, sensation is depicted as the condition for logos (as speech and reason), as well as for animal signaling. Putting rhetorical studies into productive conversation with contemporary issues raised by animal studies and affect theory, Hawhee gracefully demonstrates that nonhuman animals scurry through premodern rhetorical texts neither as anthropomorized representations nor as the dangerous supplements of human logos, but as zoostylistic teachers: language about animal liveliness both enlivens the senses and testifies to the absolutely fundamental role of sensation in any deliberation and every rational-critical discourse.” * Diane Davis, author of Inessential Solidarity: Rhetoric and Foreigner Relations *Table of ContentsNote on Translations and Primary Sources Acknowledgments Introduction: Feeling Animals 1 Aristotle and Zōa Aisthētika 2 Zoostylistics after Aristotle 3 Beast Fables, Deliberative Rhetoric, and the Progymnasmata 4 Looking Beyond Belief: Paradoxical Encomia and Visual Inquiry 5 Nonhuman Animals and Medieval Memory Arts 6 Accumulatio, Natural History, and Erasmus’s Copia Conclusion: At the Feet of Rhetorica Notes Bibliography of Primary Sources Bibliography of Secondary Sources Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Roman Stoics Self Responsibility and
Book SynopsisRoman Stoics of the imperial period developed a distinctive model of social ethics. This book shows how these Romans, including various philosophers applied their distinct brand of social ethics to daily relations and responsibilities, creating an effective model of involvement and ethical behavior in the classical world.
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The University of Chicago Press The Stoic Idea of the City
Book SynopsisThis systematic analysis of the Stoic school, concentrates on Zeno's "Republic". Using textual evidence, the author examines the Stoic ideals that initiated the natural law tradition of Western political thought.
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The University of Chicago Press The Socratic Way of Life Xenophons Memorabilia
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Pangle’s work on Xenophon’s Memorabilia is, quite simply, magisterial. His interpretation builds on scant existing scholarship, bringing Xenophon’s work into a much wider frame of scholarly reference. The Socratic Way of Life sheds new light on the long-standing dispute concerning the authentic teaching of the historical Socrates as distinct from the Socrates portrayed in Plato’s dialogues. This could have little short of revolutionary implications for the study of classical philosophy.” -- Carnes Lord, US Naval War College“This book is in all respects a scholarly exemplar. Pangle’s The Socratic Way of Life is a distinct contribution to the revival of interest and respect for Xenophon through its focus on the Socratic writings. Pangle’s philosophical commentary demonstrates that Xenophon knew what he was about, that he possessed a wry sense of humor, and that, when he seems deficient, it is because he has his tongue firmly in his cheek. It is in Pangle’s power to open up this work as a field of scholarship, and the time is ripe.” -- Paul A. Rahe, Hillsdale CollegeThomas L. Pangle’s book on this single work of Xenophon draws on long familiarity with it that has to be respected. It enables him in his introduction to relate Xenophon and his Socrates to more recent figures who loom large in political discourse. It helps him to see the importance of things that Xenophon does not say in Socrates’ defense (pp. 37-41) or elsewhere, trying to tease out Xenophon’s own views from some of his silences. He finds relevant not only what Xenophon (unlike Plato) chooses not to mention (p. 80) but also what he mislabels (monologue as ‘dialogue’, p. 92). He notices many twists that are unusual in this work and therefore invite us to notice them that much more, while also drawing attention to some expression that is used for the first time in it (e.g. an exclamation with Zeus’s name at 2.2.13, 84). Pangle is an experienced and observant reader of Xenophon. * Polis, The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought *With this rich monograph on Xenophon’s Memorabilia —equally remarkable for its loyalty to Strauss and its originality—Pangle has definitively established himself as Strauss’s greatest living student. . . . Pangle’s reading of Hercules’ choice between Virtue and Vice (Memorabilia ii 1) leads to a revealing contrast between ‘Heroic and Socratic Virtue’, one that valorizes ‘his joyful study, together with friends, of great old books.' The attention Pangle gives to pictorial representations of this famous passage in the notes (241, 253-254) points to another excellence of his book: it is filled with reliable erudition. Particularly interesting is Pangle’s attention to Shaftesbury (116, 196, 203, 218, 238-241, 253, and 256), but useful references to Telemann (229 and 241), Handel (229 and 241), Proust (245), Benjamin Franklin (219n22), and John Adams (241n97), constitute a welcome step . . ... Unusual too is Pangle’s attention to philology; he has inspected the manuscript tradition and it shows (220, 221, 226, 229-230, 232- 235). But what shows even more is his attention to what he calls ‘conventional’ (233n29 and 237n63), i.e., non-Straussian, scholars. More charitable than he could otherwise have been, Pangle is in dialogue throughout with Xenophon’s non-Straussian expositors, including currently active scholars like Louis-André Dorion and Vivienne Gray (see Index entry on 283). . . . I will be hoping that the new orthodoxy will follow Pangle’s example by illuminating, even if only by contrast, the kind of ‘noble generosity’ (111) that made Xenophon’s Socrates intent on benefiting others, even if that meant dying καλῶς. * Ancient Philosophy *Pangle’s book is especially impressive in its portrayal of the Xenophontic Socrates’ understanding of the divine and the role of the gods in the city. It is difficult to overstate the importance to philosophy’s understanding of itself of the differences here between Plato’s Socrates and Xenophon’s. Pangle is to be applauded for grappling with this subject. May Zeus grant us more edifying commentaries from Pangle in this vein—and more work on Xenophon by any and all newcomers wishing to read him not just as a statesman but as a philosopher. * The Weekly Standard *As Pangle argues, Xenophon’s non-Socratic works establish the authority of his Socratic writings, and these gentlemanly types helped to perpetuate Socrates’s legacy. Further, as Pangle points out, Xenophon’s distorted image of Socrates consciously undertook to counterbalance Plato’s distortion of Socrates. Xenophon’s missing presentation of a conversation between Plato and Socrates in Book III "is one of Xenophon’s more explicit indications that his oeuvre as a whole presupposes, and complements, the Platonic oeuvre" (SWL, 139). Pangle’s footnote indicates the agreement on this point of famed classicist John Burnet, and we find in this context Xenophon’s sole mention of Plato (III.6.1). Again, we can see why Pangle turns to Xenophon; he is guided, at least in part, by the recognition that Xenophon’s account of Socrates presupposes Plato’s, serves to counterbalance it, and thus facilitates arriving at a genuine view of the philosopher. * The Review of Politics *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart One: Socrates’s Innocence of the Injustices for Which He Was Executed 1. Socrates Was Not Guilty of Impiety or Disbelief as Regards the Gods of Athens His Piety Proven by His Worship His Belief Proven by His Daimonion His Belief Proven by His Teaching on Divination His Belief Proven by His Attitude toward Natural Science His Belief Proven by His Fidelity to His Sacred Oath Concluding the Defense against the Charge of Impiety or Disbelief 2. Socrates Was Not Guilty of Corrupting the Young Answering a Nameless Accuser’s Charge That Socrates Promoted Contempt for the Athenian Regime and Laws Starting to Explain His Association with Critias and Alcibiades In What Sense Virtue Is Knowledge The Big Differences between Critias and AlcibiadesCritias AlcibiadesExplaining the Teaching of Socrates That Wisdom Is the Title to Rule Transition to Part 2 of the MemorabiliaPart Two: Socrates’s Active Justice, as Benefiter of Others 3. How Socrates Benefited through His Piety and His Self-Mastery His Teaching on Praying and Sacrificing Socrates’s Self-Mastery vs. Xenophon’s Sexual Indulgence Socrates’s Teaching on Divine Providence Socratic Self-Mastery vs. Conventional Self-Mastery The Virtue That Socratic Self-Mastery Serves Socrates’s Discouragement of Boasting His Teaching of Self-Mastery for the Sake of a Life Dedicated to PoliticsThe Setting of the Dialogue Self-Discipline as Crucial to Education for Ruling Why One Must Seek to Be One of Those Who Rule Why the Active Political Life Is the Good Life Heracles’s Choice 4. How Socrates Benefited in Regard to Family and Friends Attending to His Son and Wife Attempting to Reconcile Feuding Brothers Socrates on the Value of Extrafamilial Friendship Promoting Reflection on One’s Own Worth as a Friend Socrates on the Power and Problem of Friendship among Gentlemen How Socrates Helped Friends in Serious Economic DifficultiesA Socratic Revolution in a Desperate Friend’s Household Socrates’s Advice to a Fellow Economic Misfit A Glimpse of Socrates’s Own Economic Art Extending His Economic Art 5. How Socrates Benefited Those Reaching for the Noble/Beautiful (Kalon) His Playful Teaching of Noble Generalship Interpreting Homer on the Virtue of a Good Leader On the Goal Aimed at by a Noble Commander Assimilating Military-Political Rule to Household Management (“Oeconomics”) His Earnest Teaching of Noble Generalship On What a Statesman Needs to Know Socrates Exhorting to a Career as a Democratic Leader How Is the Beautiful/Noble Related to the Good? The Virtues as Noble/Beautiful Socrates as Arbiter of the Beautiful/Noble in Art The Profitable Beauty of Socrates’s Soul, Reflected in Comic Allegory Exhorting to the Cultivation of Beauty of Physique Promoting Everyday Self-Mastery and “Living Decorously” 6. Socrates as Beneficial Tutor The Seduction of Euthydemus The Centrality of Justice, as a Virtue of Speech and Deed The Refutation of Euthydemus’s Convictions Regarding Justice The Refutation of Euthydemus’s Convictions Regarding the Good The Refutation of Euthydemus’s Conception of Democracy Making Euthydemus Moderate as Regards Divinity Socrates Teaching Justice Teaching His Companions Self-Mastery Making His Companions More Dialectical Teaching His Associates Self-Sufficiency in Deeds Xenophon’s Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index
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University of Chicago Press Socrates and Aristophanes
Book SynopsisIn one of his last books, Leo Strauss examines the confrontation between Socrates and Aristophanes in Aristophanes' comedies. Looking at 11 plays, Strauss shows that this confrontation is essentially one between poetry and philosophy.Table of ContentsI: Introduction II: The Clouds III: The Other Plays 1: The Acharnians 2: The Knights 3: The Wasps 4: The Peace 5: The Birds 6: The Lysistrate 7: The Thesmophoriazusai 8: The Frogs 9: The Assembly of Women 10: The Plutos IV: Conclusion Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Seneca Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic
Book SynopsisA selection of Seneca’s most significant letters that illuminate his philosophical and personal life.Trade Review"The letters’ intimate voice, their accessibility, and their focus on everyday challenges make the letters relevant for readers of all ages and academic levels. In addition, explanatory notes at the end of the book add depth and offer clarification for readers unfamiliar with Seneca or Stoic philosophy. A good representative sample of Seneca’s letters, Fifty Letters is an approachable text and a good introduction to Roman Stoicism. . . . Recommended." * Choice *"In 2015 Chicago did the great service of publishing G. and L.’s magisterial translation and commentary on all 124 surviving letters to Lucilius (Seneca: Letters on Ethics to Lucilius)... With this volume, G. and L. have now produced a very reasonably priced soft covered selection of slightly under half of the full corpus of Letters to Lucilius." * Classics for All *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Margaret Graver and A. A. Long Fifty Letters 1 Taking charge of your time 2 A beneficial reading program 3 Trusting one’s friends 6 Intimacy within friendship 7 Avoiding the crowd 8 Writing as a form of service 9 Friendship and self-sufficiency 11 Blushing 12 Visiting a childhood home 14 Safety in a dangerous world 15 Exercises for the body and the voice 16 Daily study and practice 18 The Saturnalia festival 20 Consistency 21 How reading can make you famous 23 Real joy is a serious matter 30 An Epicurean on his deathbed 31 Our mind’s godlike potential 33 The use of philosophical maxims 38 Fewer words achieve more 40 Oratory and the philosopher 41 God dwells within us 46 A book by Lucilius 47 The evils of slavery 49 Remembering old times 53 A bad experience at sea 54 A near-fatal asthma attack 56 Noisy lodgings above a bathhouse 57 A dark tunnel 58 A conversation about Plato 63 Consolation for the death of a friend 65 Some analyses of causation 70 Ending one’s own life 75 What it means to make progress 76 Only the honorable is good 79 A trip around Sicily brings thoughts of glory 83 Heavy drinking 84 The writer’s craft 86 The rustic villa of Scipio Africanus 90 The beginnings of civilization 91 A terrible fire at Lyon 97 A trial in the time of Cicero 104 Why travel cannot set you free 108 Vegetarianism and the use of literature 112 A difficult pupil 113 Is a virtue an animate creature? 116 The Stoic view of emotion 121 Self-awareness in animate creatures 123 Resisting external influences 124 The criterion for the human good Notes Textual Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Leo Strauss on Platos Protagoras
Book SynopsisA transcript of Leo Strauss's key seminars on Plato's Protagoras. This book offers a transcript of Strauss's seminar on Plato's Protagoras taught at the University of Chicago in the spring quarter of 1965, edited and introduced by renowned scholar Robert C. Bartlett. These lectures have several important features. Unlike his published writings, they are less dense and more conversational. Additionally, while Strauss regarded himself as a Platonist and published some work on Plato, he published little on individual dialogues. In these lectures Strauss treats many of the great Platonic and Straussian themes: the difference between the Socratic political science or art and the Sophistic political science or art of Protagoras; the character and teachability of virtue, its relation to knowledge, and the relations among the virtues, courage, justice, moderation, and wisdom; the good and the pleasant; frankness and concealment; the role of myth; and the relation between freedom of thoughtTrade Review“This book is an easy, pleasant, and stimulating read. It is informal and playful, and it constitutes a drama in its own right. Here one gets to watch a master and subtle interpreter of texts take on an exceedingly puzzling Platonic dialogue in front of a dozen or so very bright young students.” -- Paul A. Rahe, Hillsdale College“Leo Strauss’s course on Plato’s Protagoras, ably edited and introduced by Bartlett, displays Strauss’s remarkable combination of generous attention to his students, philosophical acumen, and textual interpretation that is at once modest and intrepid. In addition to an illuminating analysis of the themes and action of the Protagoras (and the Gorgias), Strauss presents striking discussions of topics that range from the place and meaning of myths in the dialogues to ways to approach the dialogues and to begin to understand them.” -- Mark Blitz, Claremont McKenna College"Based on audio recordings of a 1965 seminar at the University of Chicago on Plato’s Protagoras, this transcript of the discussion between Leo Strauss and his students covers significant topics of importance to Strauss and political theory more broadly: the political uses of myth; the question of whether virtue can be taught; the ideas of courage, justice, and moderation; and freedom of thought and speech, among many others. . . Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsNote on the Leo Strauss Transcript Project Editorial Headnote Introduction 1 Sophistry and Rhetoric: Plato’s Gorgias Reconsidered 2 Callicles’s Challenge to Socrates in the Gorgias 3 Sophistry, Rhetoric, and the Philosophic Life 4 The Turn to the Protagoras (309a–312b) 5 Meeting Protagoras (312b–316c) 6 Is Virtue Teachable? (316c–320c) 7 The Long Speech of Protagoras: Mythos (320c–322d) 8 The Long Speech of Protagoras: Mythos and Logos (322d–325b) 9 The Long Speech of Protagoras, Teacher of Virtue (325b–329d) 10 The Cross-Examination of Protagoras: Virtue and Its Parts (329d–335c) 11 The First Breakdown of the Conversation and Its Aftermath (335c–341c) 12 Virtue in the Element of Poetry (341c–347c) 13 What Is Courage? (347c–352e) 14 On the Hedonism of the Many (352e–356c) 15 The Hedonistic Calculus and the Problem of Courage (356c–359c) 16 Courage, Hedonism, and the Refutation of Protagoras (359c–362a) 17 Summary and Conclusion: Rhetoric and Sophistry Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Socratic Paradox and Its Enemies
Book SynopsisArgues that the Socratic paradoxes are best understood as Socrates' way of combating sophistic views: that no one is willingly just, those who are just and temperate are ignorant fools, and only some virtues (courage and wisdom) but not others (justice, temperance, and piety) are marks of true excellence.Trade Review"Regardless of whether one agrees or disagrees with Weiss, it would be hard not to admire her extraordinarily penetrating analysis of the many overlapping and interweaving arguments running through the dialogues." - Daniel B. Gallagher, Classical Outlook "Many scholars of Socratic philosophy...will wish they had written Weiss's book, or at least will wish that they had long ago read it." - Douglas V. Henry, Review of Politics"
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The University of Chicago Press Platos Philosophers
Book SynopsisFaced with the difficult task of discerning Plato's true ideas from the contradictory voices he used to express them, scholars have never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities within and between the dialogues. This title explains how these prose dramas cohere to reveal a comprehensive Platonic understanding of philosophy.Trade Review"Plato's Philosophers is brilliantly conceived, remarkably well executed, decidedly innovative, and enormously important. Illuminating a pattern of dramatic cohesiveness within Plato's body of work, Catherine Zuckert offers a compelling alternative to interpretations that trace a developmental logic across the dialogues. This book will spur us to rethink concepts and perspectives that have been taken for granted for too long. It is magisterial in the finest sense." - Gerald Mara, Georgetown University"
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Columbia University Press Commentary on the Dream of Scipio
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Columbia University Press Happiness and Goodness Philosophical Reflections
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHappiness and Goodness reminds me of a Socratic dialogue. The absence of jargon and use of realistic examples in this book make philosophy accessible to all interested in improving their lives. -- Andrea Tschemplik, American University Happiness and Goodness is a phenomenal book that offers innovative and penetrating insights into the most fundamental questions of human concern, such as happiness, love, morality, death, and God. Drawing from a vast array of philosophical, religious, and literary sources, Steven M. Cahn and Christine Vitrano brilliantly challenge long-standing assumptions about what it means to live a satisfying and successful life. They also have an uncanny ability to transmit their ideas in a vivid and enjoyable fashion by providing colorful vignettes and everyday life stories. I, for one, could not put the book down. -- Dov Weiss, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign This crisply written and incisive book draws on ancient thought and contemporary examples to develop a compelling account of living well. -- David Shatz, Yeshiva University I can't remember the last time I read a book about ethics that was so fascinating. -- Ed Lake, Deputy Editor, AeonTable of ContentsForeword, by Robert B. Talisse Preface 1. Introduction 2. Wasted Lives? 3. Projects of Worth? 4. Flourishing? 5. Things That Matter? 6. Morality and Happiness 7. Morality and Unhappiness 8. Character 9. Appearing Moral 10. God and Morality 11. Heaven and Hell 12. Moral Judgments 13. Moral Standards 14. Choosing the Experience Machine 15. Happiness and Ignorance 16. Assessing Achievement 17. Pleasures and Pains 18. Fear of the Divine 19. Fear of Unfulfilled Desires 20. Fear of Death 21. Futility 22. Living Well 23. Satisfaction 24. Concluding Questions Notes Index About the Authors
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Columbia University Press Energy Dreams Of Actuality
Book SynopsisEnergy Dreams interrogates the ontology of energy from the first coinage of the word energeia by Aristotle to the current practice of fracking and the popularity of “energy drinks.”Trade ReviewEnergy is something that pervades all our concerns from ecological to libidinal: we dream about clean renewable energy, condemn fracking, gain strength through energy drinks. Michael Marder's Energy Dreams moves beyond these topics and asks a more fundamental hermeneutic question: what understanding of energy is presupposed in our mundane concerns? He demonstrates brilliantly that we need a new philosophical paradigm and that only in this way will we be able to properly confront all the practical problems in our dealings with energy. Marder's book makes it clear that only a deeper theoretical reflection will enable us to solve our most "practical" problems-a lesson needed like daily bread in today's world, which more and more abhors authentic thinking. -- Slavoj Zizek, author of Less Than Nothing and Absolute Recoil Energy Dreams is an intellectually fascinating and exciting investigation of energy, and it represents a new generation of environmental thinking that tackles the environmental crisis with philosophical sophistication and adventurousness. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary debates in environmental and political philosophy. -- Adrian Parr, author of The Wrath of Capital Energy Dreams is a passionate philosophical page-turner, a beautifully rendered and urgently needed elemental philosophy of non-violence that journeys to the very heart of how we imagine our relationships to ourselves, each other, our worlds, and the earth itself. Marder's vegetal thinking is visionary. -- Kelly Oliver, author of Earth and World: Philosophy After the Apollo Missions Michael Marder's Energy Dreams is a book on energeia, broadly conceived, a reflectively literal tour de force, moving through Aristotle to Hegel, including the many contemporary and historical meanings of energy, touching down with Heidegger and even Carl Schmitt but always returning to Aristotle. Marder offers a conversational yet rigorous reflection on some the most important issues of our time. -- Babette Babich, Fordham UniversityTable of ContentsOpening Words 1. Energy Dreams 2. Theological Musings 3. Economic Chimeras 4. Psychological Reveries 5. Political Fantasies 6. Physical Fancies The Last Word: Energy or Energies? P.S.-The Very Last Word Notes Works Cited Index
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Columbia University Press Nothing Sacred
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Indiana University Press The Way of the Platonic Socrates
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Adds to a vital and growing body of work dedicated to rethinking and reinterpreting one of the most, if not the most, important authors in Western philosophy and literature—Plato."—Jeremy Bell, editor of Plato's Animals"By his own acknowledgement, Ewegen is not attempting in this stimulating book to definitively "solve" the issue of the way of the Platonic Socrates. What he does do is establish convincingly that one crucial but underestimated aspect of Socrates' way can be articulated by a congeries of terms that include: openness, receptivity, releasement, even weakness, passivity, withdrawal, and poverty, among others. This important book demonstrates insightfully that these themes have not received the attention they deserve."—Drew A. Hyland, Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Trinity College"The Platonic Socrates presented in this extraordinary new work is not only, as the tradition has handed him down to us, poor, wandering, powerless, knowing only that he does not know, but also radically open, receptive, in withdrawal, less a thinker or questioner than a space for thinking and questioning that opens up the entire history of philosophy. By focusing on that space in the Platonic dialogues, Shane Ewegen has given us nothing less than a radically new Socrates."—Michael Naas, author of Plato and the Invention of Life"Ewegen's book elaborates both on what it means for the Platonic Socrates to be somehow lacking and on the assorted ways in which Socrates' character is defined by it. It offers important insights into the highly enigmatic character of the Platonic Socrates and the philosophical significance thereof. This will become essential reading for anyone who takes Socrates' depiction in the dialogues to be philosophically relevant and for anyone interested in how Socrates creates the space in which philosophy can occur."—Sonja Tanner, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, author of Plato's Laughter"In The Way of the Platonic Socrates, S. Montgomery Ewegen approaches the enigma of Socrates. Through the analysis of a broad array of Platonic texts, Ewegen investigates the philosophical implications of the Socratic posture and comes to an outcome paradoxical no less than fascinating, and genuinely Lacanian in tenor: a portrait outlining the ancient thinker in his lack and withdrawal, placelessness and spaciousness, in brief, in his abiding and generative mystery."—Claudia Baracchi, Università di Milano-BicoccaTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Wandering: Apology1. Retreat: Phaedo / Timaeus2. Power(lessness): Gorgias3. Poverty: Symposium4. Indebtedness: Statesman5. Ignorance: Protagoras6. Releasement: RepublicEpilogue: Plato BibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Hearing Sound and the Auditory in Ancient Greece
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece attunes readers of ancient philosophy to themes of noise, sound, speech and their interrelation, which certainly are the sort of things that we might overlook if it were not for the care and attention provided by the essays in this volume."—Eric Sanday, University of Kentucky"The essays in Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece share an attention to hearing as something philosophically significant across numerous texts and figures in ancient Greek philosophy—from Heraclitus and other Presocratics to Plato and Aristotle and later antiquity. This thematic focus allows for the authors to address the connection to a range of phenomena of interest to philosophers: logos, sense-perception, silence, crowd noise, the experience of pain. The collection as a whole makes for fascinating reading, and will be certain to inspire future work in philosophy."—Robert Metcalf, University of Colorado DenverTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsEditor's Introduction, by Jill GordonPart I: Listening to the Logoi1. Wakeful Living, Wakeful Listening in Heraclitus, by Drew A. Hyland2. Sound, Water, and the Unity of Life in Empedocles, by Michael M. Shaw3. Indoor Voices: Adriana Cavarero and Jacques Derrida on the Devocalization of Logos in Plato, by Michael Naas4. Hearing, Touch, and Practical Intelligence in Aristotle's Philosophy, by Eve Rabinoff5. Listening to the "Egg", by Sean Alexander GurdPart II: Sound Education6. Like Those Who Are Untested: Heraclitus' Logos as Tuning Instrument for Psuchê, by Jessica E. Decker7. Philosophical Listening in Plato's Lysis, by Shane M. Ewegen8. Sound and the Soul in Plato, by Ryan T. DrakePart III: Sound Politics9. Listening to the Seventh Letter, by Jill Gordon10. Observations on Listening in Aristotle's Practical Philosophy, by I-Kai Jeng11. Mis-aulogy: Aristotle on the Politics of Sound, by Sara BrillPart IV: Alogos, Embodiment, and Silence12. The Sound of Pain in Sophocles' Philoctetes, by Rebecca Goldner13. Socratic Death Rattles: Pythagorean Hearing and Listening in Plato's Phaedo, by Kris McLain and Anne-Marie Schultz14. Socrates' Body and the Voice of Philosophy, by James Barrett15. Works of Silence, by Jeremy BellIndex
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Indiana University Press Friendship
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Friendship promises to positively alter the landscape of Platonic and Aristotelian studies, and Ancient Philosophy more broadly, as Dr. Baracchi gives us a fresh and intellectually fecund approach to ancient texts such as the Nicomachean Ethics, the Timaeus, and the Republic, among others."—Ryan Drake, Fairfield UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Thoughts on the Threshold1. The Eyes of Friendship2. The Cosmos That I Am3. The Friendship between Us4. The Friends of Socrates5. Philosophers' Friendship6. On Enmity7. Friendship and Politics8. Friendship and Nature9. Sensing-WithIndex
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Indiana University Press Friendship
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Friendship promises to positively alter the landscape of Platonic and Aristotelian studies, and Ancient Philosophy more broadly, as Dr. Baracchi gives us a fresh and intellectually fecund approach to ancient texts such as the Nicomachean Ethics, the Timaeus, and the Republic, among others."—Ryan Drake, Fairfield UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Thoughts on the Threshold1. The Eyes of Friendship2. The Cosmos That I Am3. The Friendship between Us4. The Friends of Socrates5. Philosophers' Friendship6. On Enmity7. Friendship and Politics8. Friendship and Nature9. Sensing-WithIndex
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University of Notre Dame Press Back to the Rough Ground
Book SynopsisBack to the Rough Ground is a philosophical investigation of practical knowledge, with major import for professional practice and the ethical life in modern society. Its purpose is to clarify the kind of knowledge that informs good practice in a range of disciplines such as education, psychotherapy, medicine, management, and law. Through reflection on key modern thinkers who have revived cardinal insights of Aristotle, and a sustained engagement with the Philosopher himself, it presents a radical challenge to the scientistic assumptions that have dominated how these professional domains have been conceived, practiced, and institutionalized.Trade Review"[Dunne] makes clear both the contemporary relevance of the Aristotelian conception of practical judgment and the way in which, implicitly and explicitly, it has already played a part in the twentieth-century debates in a way that no one else has done. His detailed exposition of Aristotle is not only admirable . . . but exceptionally well-designed." —Alasdair MacIntyre“Joseph Dunne's achievement in this truly remarkable work is of the highest significance for educational philosophy . . . [Back to the Rough Ground] should be compulsory reading for all those who profess a serious interest in the conceptual complexities . . . of professional knowledge. [Dunne's] arguments are consistently intelligent, clear, and persuasive . . . the overall quality of his writing is simply outstanding.” —Journal of Philosophy of Education“A remarkable exercise in the hermeneutics of reading carried out in a truly Gadamerian spirit. . . . The richness and brilliance of Dunne's twofold reading, which moves back and forth between Aristotle, Gadamer, and Habermas, . . . does indeed succeed in forcefully reviving . . . a usable modern phronetic tradition.” —Quarterly Journal of Speech“An impressively masterful and engaging volume, which will more than repay careful reading and rereading. Its depth of analysis, richness of content, and subtlety of argument offer invaluable resources not only for understanding Aristotle's practical philosophy but also for appreciating why robust accounts of practical reason, though scarce in modernity, are nonetheless indispensable. . . . [A] model of how phronesis [practical wisdom] might be exhibited in our own day." —Modern Theology“[A] very powerful, scholarly, and philosophically acute attempt to rehabilitate an understanding of practical reason. . . . Dunne's absorbing and illuminating book is a necessary acquisition for anyone who is interested in practical philosophy.” —International Journal of Philosophical Studies"...a first-rate piece of work...wide ranging in its scope, yet finely attentive to detail. It covers...a large number of contemporary thinkers, and yet shows scholarly and philosophical finesse in reading Aristotle and recovering the contemporary significance of his views of techne and phronesis." —The Review of Metaphysics
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University of Notre Dame Press Aristotle and Modern Politics
Book SynopsisDespite the separation between classical and modern theories of government, contributors to Aristotle and Modern Politics find Aristotle a useful interlocutor for assessing both possibilities and limitations in contemporary politics. In this collection, noted political scientists, theologians, and philosophers discuss the magnitude of Aristotle's presence in contemporary debate and demonstrate some of the ways in which Aristotle sheds new light on contemporary problems. This engaging book also exhibits the persistence of political philosophy at a time when the pervasive influence of ideology and historicism lead many to deny its possibility. Although the authors of these essays differ on the nature of Aristotle's contribution, all are united by the conviction that he has something important to teach citizens of modern political societies.If the fundamental principles of modern politics were drawn from critical reflections of reason over and against the imposition of Trade Review"...this eclectic collection of essays serves to illustrate the ways in which the perceived shortcomings of modern liberal politics can be understood, if not corrected, with reference to several of Aristotle's writings. The success of this book is due, in large part, to its dialectical character. ...this is a very fine volume indeed. Its diverse elements come together to forma remarkable whole, one that makes its reading both pleasurable and informative. It also succeeds in sparking new and exciting debates...."—International Journal of the Classical Tradition“. . . highly researched, well grounded in contemporary literature as well as in Aristotle, and highly readable. The authors show a rare ability to bring out the best in those whom they study . . . highly recommended.” —Choice“The serious revival of Aristotelianism is exemplified by Aristotle and Modern Politics, edited by Aristide Tessitore. The twelve essays presented here—all but two for the first time—aim to show what Aristotle has to teach us about community, virtue, law, economics, and the foundations of modern politics. In each case, the subject is not merely some Aristotelian hobbyhorse, but a matter of lively, even heated debate in contemporary scholarship on the meaning and value of liberalism.” —Perspectives on Political Science“[T]his volume ... performs a signal service. In addition to exploring how Aristotelian insights can be drawn upon to advance contemporary intellectual and policy debates, it also begins what is probably an overdue effort to correct misrepresentations of the authentic Aristotle by some of his recent champions.” —Claremont Review of Books“The strength of this collection lies in the high quality of each contribution and of each contributor:.... These essays embody much of the best Aristotelian political theory in America today. These are important essays on important topics and there is somthing here for everyone.” —Perspectives on Politics“This is a distinguished volume.... [T]he scope and high quality of most of the essays demonstrate the strengths of the contemporary revival of Aristotelian political philosophy. [S]everal of the contributors are at the cutting edge of this revival. The general quality of the essays, the ways they explore an interesting variety of modern political themes from a classical perspective, and the implicit conversation among the essays make this volume uniquely useful for those interested in looking at contemporary life through the still powerful lens of classical political philosophy.” —Journal of Politics
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University of Notre Dame Press Aristotle and Modern Politics
Book SynopsisDespite the separation between classical and modern theories of government, contributors to Aristotle and Modern Politics find Aristotle a useful interlocutor for assessing both possibilities and limitations in contemporary politics. In this collection, noted political scientists, theologians, and philosophers discuss the magnitude of Aristotle's presence in contemporary debate and demonstrate some of the ways in which Aristotle sheds new light on contemporary problems. This engaging book also exhibits the persistence of political philosophy at a time when the pervasive influence of ideology and historicism lead many to deny its possibility. Although the authors of these essays differ on the nature of Aristotle's contribution, all are united by the conviction that he has something important to teach citizens of modern political societies.If the fundamental principles of modern politics were drawn from critical reflections of reason over and against the imposition of Trade Review"...this eclectic collection of essays serves to illustrate the ways in which the perceived shortcomings of modern liberal politics can be understood, if not corrected, with reference to several of Aristotle's writings. The success of this book is due, in large part, to its dialectical character. ...this is a very fine volume indeed. Its diverse elements come together to forma remarkable whole, one that makes its reading both pleasurable and informative. It also succeeds in sparking new and exciting debates...."—International Journal of the Classical Tradition“. . . highly researched, well grounded in contemporary literature as well as in Aristotle, and highly readable. The authors show a rare ability to bring out the best in those whom they study . . . highly recommended.” —Choice“The serious revival of Aristotelianism is exemplified by Aristotle and Modern Politics, edited by Aristide Tessitore. The twelve essays presented here—all but two for the first time—aim to show what Aristotle has to teach us about community, virtue, law, economics, and the foundations of modern politics. In each case, the subject is not merely some Aristotelian hobbyhorse, but a matter of lively, even heated debate in contemporary scholarship on the meaning and value of liberalism.” —Perspectives on Political Science“[T]his volume ... performs a signal service. In addition to exploring how Aristotelian insights can be drawn upon to advance contemporary intellectual and policy debates, it also begins what is probably an overdue effort to correct misrepresentations of the authentic Aristotle by some of his recent champions.” —Claremont Review of Books“The strength of this collection lies in the high quality of each contribution and of each contributor:.... These essays embody much of the best Aristotelian political theory in America today. These are important essays on important topics and there is somthing here for everyone.” —Perspectives on Politics“This is a distinguished volume.... [T]he scope and high quality of most of the essays demonstrate the strengths of the contemporary revival of Aristotelian political philosophy. [S]everal of the contributors are at the cutting edge of this revival. The general quality of the essays, the ways they explore an interesting variety of modern political themes from a classical perspective, and the implicit conversation among the essays make this volume uniquely useful for those interested in looking at contemporary life through the still powerful lens of classical political philosophy.” —Journal of Politics
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University of Notre Dame Press The Inner Word in Gadamers Hermeneutics
Book SynopsisThe Inner Word in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics is an intellectual history and textual analysis of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s famous and obscure theme of the verbum interius.Trade Review“Consummately researched, lucidly written, and persuasively argued throughout, The Inner Word succeeds brilliantly in bringing to light this neglected but pivotal matter in Gadamer’s work. Arthos is learned in the best ‘humanist’ way, for he succeeds in creating something new of his own that will speak eloquently to all of us.” —Walter Jost, University of Virginia“Gadamer suggests that the Christian idea of incarnation is a key to his hermeneutics, but does not explain his position in a detailed or systematic manner. Arthos brings his considerable knowledge of hermeneutics and rhetoric to bear on Gadamer's insight, recounting the rich intellectual history to which Gadamer gestures, and providing an extended and detailed exegesis of this pivotal point in the third part of Truth and Method. Gadamer's account of 'linguisticality,' Arthos explains, can best be understood through his use of a complex metaphor—the ‘inner word.’ Arthos matches his erudition with clear and clean prose, and his account exemplifies, rather than just describes, Gadamer's hermeneutical philosophy. Any scholar interested in Gadamer's philosophy should have this book on his or her shelf.” —Francis J. Mootz III, William S. Boyd Professor of Law, William S. Boyd School of Law“Arthos's strength lies for me in his careful reading of the sources. He effectively commands the literature on the subject. This work shows in a sophisticated way the legacy of trinitarian theology for philosophical hermeneutics. The very complex task of illuminating the phenomenon of the verbum interius and indicating its centrality for philosophical hermeneutics is accomplished by John Arthos with great sensitivity to the subject matter.” —Andrzej Wiercinski, The International Institute for Hermeneutics“John Arthos’s . . . book . . . will be a model for future scholarship on Gadamer’s intellectual inheritance. . . . Drawing widely from Gadamer’s writings while focusing on one crucial move in Gadamer’s argument, it provides both a systemic interpretation of Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics and an informative overview of those views—ancient, medieval and modern—that helped shape crucial aspects of Gadamer’s thought.” —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews“Arthos’s book is arguably the definitive statement on how to read Gadamer’s Trinitarian claim . . . an indispensable resource to practical rhetorical critics as well as to theorists in understanding what is at issue in our assumptions about language, agency, and meaning.” —Rhetoric and Public Affairs“While offering a close reading of Gadamer’s position on the inner word, the author’s book stands as a valid contribution to the philosophy and theology of ‘Logos,’ one that leads the reader to a more profound understanding of the nature of language and the linguistic self.” —Catholic Library World“. . . Arthos’s book provides a rich resource in delving into both the history of the verbum and its hermeneutic appropriation by Gadamer. This work, then, is not only an essential read for Gadamerian scholars but also a valuable source for those interested in engaging the masters of medieval thought with the hermeneutic turn.” —International Philosophical Quarterly“Arthos explicates and emphasizes the contribution Gadamer made in Truth and Method to hermeneutics and the study of human communication. The book’s most significant contribution, however, is its historical focus.” —Journal of Communication and Religion“Arthos justly celebrates the inherent humanism of Gadamer’s hermeneutics and has aided our understanding of Gadamer with his thorough elucidation of a very difficult passage in Truth and Method.” —Monatshefte"[The Inner Word in Gadamer's Hermeneutics] is a 360 page magisterial study of the roughly ten pages of the 'Language and Verbum' section in Truth and Method, in which Gadamer treats of the topic of the inner word . . . Methodically researched and engagingly written, [the book], however, is no dry academic tome. For Arthos's purpose is not only to exegete these pages but to inquire 'into the paradigmatic significance of a hermeneutic logos for our culture.' . . . Indeed, he succeeds not only in his inquiry but also in demonstrating, i.e., producing, the very workings of a culturally relevant hermeneutics." —The Heythrop Journal
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University of Notre Dame Press The Greek Praise of Poverty
Book SynopsisExplains Cynicism's rise in popularity in the ancient world by exploring the set of attitudes that collectively formed the Greek praise of poverty. The author argues that economic, military, and philosophical thought contains explicit criticisms of wealth and praise of poverty. This is a work of ancient Cynicism and its classical environment.Trade Review“In his thought-provoking The Greek Praise of Poverty: Origins of Ancient Cynicism, William D. Desmond proposes that the chief reason for this widespread appeal and longevity is that, for all its flamboyance, Cynicism in fact had deep roots in traditional Greek culture, and in particular in Greek suspicions of wealth, and praise of frugality and the simple life . . . erudite, scholarly and mostly well-written.” —Times Literary Supplement“Desmond's book shows impressively how the cynics were not, contrary to what one might think, marginalized in Greek society. They represent a strand of thought that appears (if Desmond is right) very influential, and raises intriguing questions about the degree of influence their thought may have had on some of the early church fathers, as well as Christian anchorites and monks.” —Milltown Studies"Through a comprehensive analysis of wealth and poverty in classical Greek thought, Desmond recounts two concurrent themes. The first illuminates the Greek understanding of the virtue of poverty, running mainly from Hesiod to Aristotle, through concentrating on the late fifth and early fourth centuries' historical, comedic, and philosophical writings; the second illuminates this understanding's continuation in Diogenes and Cynical thought in general." —First Things"In this investigation of the early stages of Cynicism in the classical period (450-323 B.C.), Desmond argues that figures such as Antisthenes and Diogenes were not cultural outcasts or marginal figures, and that the Cynic movement had deep and significant roots in the 'Greek praise of poverty' and the virtues that it could inspire." —New Testament Abstracts"The ancient Cynics have long been seen as exceptional and outside the margins of Greek culture. William Desmond makes a powerful argument against this perception, by searching for the origins of Cynic ideas and attitudes within mainstream Greek culture and society. He examines a wide number of different texts, ranging from Homer to Hesiod to the tragic poets, Thucydides, Herodotus, Xenophon and of course Plato and Aristotle. . . This is a very successful and interesting book that deserves to be read by a wide audience." —Bryn Mawr Classical Review"According to Desmond, democratic populism, Greek heroism, and a philosophic yearning for absolute truth--forerunners of Cynic asceticism--all derive from the virtue of frugality. . . . Philological and philosophical, Desmond draws widely from the original Greek sources and argues persuasively for his provocative conclusions." —Choice“Sets the thoughts of such Cynic philosophers as Antisthenes and Diogenes in the context of a Greek tradition of ambivalence toward wealth.”—The Chronicle of Higher Education
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University of Notre Dame Press Psellos and the Patriarchs
Book SynopsisPsellos and the Patriarchs: Letters and Funeral Orations for Keroullarios, Leichoudes, and Xiphilinos contains translations of the funeral orations written by Michael Psellos, the leading Byzantine intellectual of the eleventh century, for the three ecumenical patriarchs of Constantinople whom he knew best: Michael Keroullarios (1043-1058), Konstantinos Leichoudes (1059-1063), and Ioannes Xiphilinos (1064-1075). The orations are significant sources for the lives and reputations of these patriarchs; they are also a prime source for the educational reforms made by the emperor Konstantinos IX Monomachos in the mid-1040s, and for many events of that turbulent century that Psellos witnessed, including popular uprisings, plots, civil wars, and the battle with the Catholic legates in 1054. Never before translated into English, the orations and letters are introduced by a detailed analysis of Psellos' historical relationships with the patriarchs and an interpretation of the works.Trade Review"This volume of translations, by two of the best contemporary experts on Psellos and his times, is an important addition to a growing body of scholarship on Byzantium in the eleventh century. Because of the four personalities involved, Psellos and the Patriarchs is an extremely valuable source for historians; it provides a wealth of material on such topics as the secular and ecclesiastical careers of leading intellectuals; relations between patriarch and emperor; the functioning of rhetoric at the highest levels in society; and not least, the personality, character, and literary prowess of Psellos himself." —John Duffy, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine Philology and Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University"Learning, philosophy, complex theology, the call of monasticism, high politics, and deep intrigue make up the world of eleventh-century Byzantium. Michael Psellos belonged to this world and wrote about it in an engaging and gossipy way. His funeral orations on three patriarchs of Constantinople, together with some of his letters, shed much light on the detail of this period. The translators, who, by editing these works, rescued them from oblivion, have put the world of scholarship deeply in their debt." —Andrew Louth, emeritus, Durham University"Psellos and the Patriarchs offers readers interested in Byzantine history and literature a series of relatively neglected but very important medieval Greek texts in English translation with introduction and brief commentary. Written by the eleventh-century ingenious author Michael Psellos (arguably among the most representative Byzantine rhetors), these texts focus on the lives, networks, and careers of three patriarchs of Constantinople who played a central role in the vibrant political and intellectual life of the capital of the Byzantine empire—in this period, a leading urban center of the eastern Mediterranean world." —Stratis Papaioannou, Brown University"In Byzantine history, the eleventh century is traumatic and chaotic, innovative and creative. The most perspicacious observer of this destructive and formative period was Michael Psellos, and this collection of some of Psellos' work related to contemporary patriarchs of Constantinople deepens our picture of a crucial period. The commentary provides relevant context, while the translations render Psellos' Greek beautifully without sacrificing accuracy. It's a topos worthy of Byzantine literature, but none the less true: this volume is a must for anyone interested in the history of Byzantium." —Tia M. Kolbaba, Rutgers University“There are two kinds of Byzantinists: those who find Psellos difficult, and those who lie about it. Both types will rejoice at the publication of Kaldellis and Polemis's volume of annotated translations, including the funeral orations. . . . An introductory essay and brief biography of Psellos by Kaldellis provide helpful guidance. . . . these translations let Psellos's artistry shine.” —Speculum“The bulk of Psellos’s one thousand or so theological and philosophical works remain untranslated in any language. The planned future volumes in this series will begin to fill this gap, and thus deservedly make more accessible the fascinating world and mind of Michael Psellos to a larger audience.” —Parergon“The series ‘Michael Psellos in Translation’ offers to historians of the Middle Ages as well as to the informed public and students a valuable tool for assessing the intellectual aspirations of a key-figure in the development of medieval thought.” —The Catholic Historical Review“Helpful introductions provided for each of the addressees allow the reader to better understand the vibrant, intellectual court culture that first united and then divided these men. . . . The reader also comes away with a greater appreciation for the deep intertextual relationships of Psellos’s texts with earlier Christian and classical literature.” —Parergon
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University of Notre Dame Press Platos Timaeus as Cultural Icon
Book SynopsisIn recent years, Plato''s Timaeus has recaptured the interest of scholars, sparking an exploration of the astonishing influence this work has had on a wide range of intellectual traditions. Plato''s Timaeus as Cultural Icon brings together a group of leading experts from Canada, the United States, and Europe to examine the reception of Plato''s Timaeus throughout history, as well as its impact on major intellectual and cultural traditions.Gretchen J. Reydams-Schils''s enlightening introduction tackles the issue of why the Timaeus has enjoyed such tremendous cultural status and sets the stage for the many topics covered in this volume, which include an assessment of the Timaeus''s influence on Plato''s successors, an examination of how it became connected to traditions of sacred texts, an analysis of the mind-body problem, the tradition of music and its relation to philosophy, the cultural impact of Calcidius''s Latin translation ofTrade Review"This volume contains thirteen papers from a conference held at Notre Dame.... The papers discuss the interpretation and significance of Plato's Timaeus from the Old Academy to nineteenth-century German philosophy. There is an introductory overview by the editor, as well as a bibliography, index locorum, and a general index. ...of high quality." —Speculum"...Reydams-Schils' Plato's Timaeus as Cultural Icon is a paradigm of what a book of essays on the influence of a dialogue should be. First and foremost, the articles are first-rate. Moreover, they cover an extraordinary range of topics, thinkers and time-periods. This is an excellent collection." —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews“As a collaborative effort of expert philosophers, classicists, and historians, this remarkable book serves as a wonderful starting point and research tool for anyone with an interest in Plato’s Timaeus.” —Philosophical Inquiry“Under the capable editorship of Reydams-Schils, the present volume brings together 13 essays by scholars from the United States, Europe and Canada that address the influence and cultural status of the Timaeus since its appearance more than two millennia ago...This collection is an excellent and reasonably priced support for studies of Plato’s dialogs in general and the Timaeus in particular." —Library Journal“Each essay is a model of careful scholarship.” —The Sixteenth Century Journal“...an impressive testimony to the dialogue’s enduring influence.” —Mouseion: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada"The overall quality of the papers is far better than average for a volume of this sort. They deserve to be read by all advanced students in the Platonic tradition." —Classical World“The thirteen articles in this volume are papers originally presented in 2000 at a conference at Notre Dame. Two of them deal with some intrinsic problems of the dialogue itself, while the rest depict the various phases of its fortuna up to Schelling.” —Classical World
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University of Notre Dame Press Platos Literary Garden
Book SynopsisPlato''s dialogues are universally acknowledged as standing among the masterworks of the Western philosophic tradition. What most readers do not know, however, is that Plato also authored a public letter in which he unequivocally denies ever having written a work of philosophy. If Plato did not view his written dialogues as works of philosophy, how did he conceive them, and how should readers view them? In Plato''s Literary Garden, Kenneth M. Sayre brings over thirty years of Platonic scholarship to bear on these questions, arguing that Plato did not intend the dialogues to serve as repositories of philosophic doctrine, but instead composed them as teaching instruments.Trade Review“Kenneth Sayre's book addresses students who are undertaking the serious study of Plato for the first time . . . . Sayre promises students a method for engaging with the dialogues as actively as the actual participants are engaged, and he promises scholars a much needed account of the significance of the dramatic and literary form of the dialogues.” —Ancient Philosophy“Sayre examines with admirable scholarly precision and thoroughness fundamental Platonic themes—the story of recollection, the method of collection and division, the use of paradigms, eros, and dialectic. —International Studies in Philosophy
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University of Notre Dame Press Political Philosophy and the Republican Future
Book SynopsisAre we moving inevitably into an irreversible era of postnationalism and globalism? In Political Philosophy and the Republican Future, Gregory Bruce Smith asks, if participation in self-government is not central to citizens' vision of the political good, is despotism inevitable? Smith''s study evolves around reconciling the early republican tradition in Greece and Rome as set out by authors such as Aristotle and Cicero, and a more recent tradition shaped by thinkers such as Machiavelli, Locke, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Madison, and Rousseau. Gregory Smith adds a further layer of complexity by analyzing how the republican and the larger philosophical tradition have been called into question by the critiques of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and their various followers.For Smith, the republican future rests on the future of the tradition of political philosophy. In this book he explores the nature of political philosophy and the assumptions under which that tradition can be an ongTrade Review"The fragmentation of knowledge among competing schools in our time is not unlike the competing schools of philosophy confronting Cicero. This fragmentation—in his time and ours—manifests itself in the loss of public space. Without a public space—rooted in the phenomena of a shared public life—there can be no genuine knowledge and no free and active political life. In penetrating analysis, Gregory Bruce Smith engages Cicero as a master of the phenomenological method presented here and as a republican statesman opening opportunities for citizens—not subjects—to shape their own future." —Christopher A. Colmo, Dominican University“Gregory Bruce Smith’s book is significant as scholarship because there is no other comprehensive presentation that is more thorough or intelligent. Smith is especially effective in his presentation of Cicero as a kind of phenomenologist who does not forget the source of philosophy in everyday discourse, or ‘public space.’ He usefully argues that for Cicero the combination of rhetoric, public speaking, statesmanship, and philosophy is more worthwhile and significant than merely contemplative philosophy on its own.” —Mark Blitz, Claremont McKenna College“Gregory Smith presents a thoughtful and expansive study of Cicero the republican. It is also an argument for Cicero’s relevance today that becomes a rescue operation for him from modern neglect and postmodern levity. The book explores Cicero and his surroundings through the lens of political philosophy to illuminate our present situation.” —Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University; senior fellow, Hoover Institution“Throughout his presentation, Smith makes clear that Cicero always begins with what is given, and seeks to weave strands together, to open the space necessary for a republican future. This book is highly recommended for scholars interested in phenomenology, as well as for undergraduates looking for an introduction to Cicero’s political philosophy.” —Choice“Smith’s burning care for future generations’ possession of republican liberty makes this an important piece of political writing that reflects on the life well lived and exhorts us toward it.” —The Review of PoliticsTable of ContentsPreface 1. Reflections on the Tradition of Republicanism 2. Initial Reflections on Political Philosophy 3. Who Was Cicero? 4. Cicero on the Nature of Philosophy 5. Cicero on Cosmology and Natural Philosophy 6. Cicero on Natural Theology 7. Cicero on Ethics 8. Cicero on Oratory and the Language Arts 9. Cicero on Politics 10. A Brief Reflection on Nietzsche 11. Conclusion: Political Philosophy and the Republican Future Bibliography Index
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University of Notre Dame Press Ars Vitae
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Lasch-Quinn] is a gifted scholar whose examination of ancient works, their modern scholarly reception, and the appearance of big ideas in popular culture is consistently brilliant. . . . She manages to cover over two thousand years of philosophical development in under four hundred pages, and while those pages are dense in content, they are charmingly readable. The introduction, ‘Therapeia,’ is worth the price of the book.” —Front Porch Republic”In her profoundly insightful and thought-provoking work, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn . . . notes, ‘the problems with contemporary culture stem in part from its inability, even in the event that basic needs are met, to provide adequate resources for the living of everyday life.’ . . . Lasch-Quinn’s work not only informs but urges the reader to seek a deeper understanding of the current problems we face.” —Journal of Sociology and Christianity"Lasch-Quinn has set out in Ars Vitae to embody the best of what true philosophical writing has to offer. She writes in a way that makes her readers better thinkers, more reflective and self-aware, and she does so by showing the development of her own thinking—who her influences are, the sources from which she draws her wisdom, and how philosophy informs her understanding of herself, the culture, and the world in which she lives." —Los Angeles Review of Books"Lasch-Quinn turns to the ancients to persuade her readers that living, contra postmodernism, can bring us to 'the heights of awe, love, and wholeness,' even in the face of great pain and evil. . . . Many of us go through days, weeks, and even years of being beaten down, but suffering, Lasch-Quinn’s book tells us, can be transfigured into beauty, even holiness. " —City Journal"This is what makes Ars Vitae such vital reading. It provides both a thorough-going critique of the therapeutic, self-obsessed ethos so dominant today, and a way beyond it, through the potential development of those inner, moral resources on which true selfhood and a moral community rest." —spiked"Ars Vitae is a remarkable book. . . . The prose feels intensely personal, and even intimate, engaging the reader in the author’s search for meaning with an approach that feels consequential without being personally needy." —Law and Liberty“Lasch-Quinn’s forward-looking vision, developed through an impressive range of learning, ties wholeness, flourishing, selfhood, and health to goodness, truth, and beauty, which remain attainable through the most basic impulses and features of human life. That she makes her argument through accessible and upbeat engagements with everyday realities like literature, film, architecture, and coffee mugs (for which she has a real fondness) only proves her point.” —The Christian Century“Ars Vitae doesn’t just stir the imagination—it stirs the scholarly imagination. It makes one think not simply about its subject but also how one might approach any subject. It is thus an example of both innovation and intervention.” —Christian Scholar’s Review“The book is not a manual but instead a glimpse into, and an invitation to join, a conversation about what is good and how to live. . . . In the end, those who take up Ars Vitae may find themselves, as I did, most grateful to Lasch-Quinn for giving them grounds for hope.” —VoegelinView"Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn’s engaging and learned Ars Vitae: The Fate of Inwardness and the Return of the Ancient Arts of Living is an intellectual tour de force that expounds various branches of ancient philosophy, assesses the scholarly debate around them, and critiques much of the modern appropriation of the classical heritage." —First ThingsTable of ContentsMajor Abbreviations and Sources Acknowledgements Introduction: Therapeia 1. The New Gnosticism 2. The New Stoicism 3. The New Epicureanism 4. The New Cynicism 5. The New Platonism Conclusion: Philosophia Epilogue: Once Bibliography
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University of Notre Dame Press Reason and Politics The Nature of Political
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Reason and Politics is an unconventional and important contribution to the field of political philosophy. Mark Blitz uncovers what kind of people we in our age have to be in order to be concerned with justice, or virtue, or rights, or magnanimity, or the common good. He asks: What is going on in our bodies and minds when we have such experiences? And the result is a tour de force.” —Jerry Weinberger, author of Benjamin Franklin Unmasked“This is a remarkable inquiry into the rational structure of the political phenomena that appear most irrational. Mark Blitz provides a path to clarity in the face of the complexity of our way of life, political partisanship, and the proliferation of false but powerful and ossified political doctrines. One may have to go back all the way to Hobbes to read a book of a comprehensiveness similar to Reason and Politics.” —Svetozar Y. Minkov, author of Leo Strauss on Science"Mark Blitz has written a work of high political philosophy that is at once clear and accessible. . . . Reason and Politics is dedicated to uncovering reasonably that which ‘forms and directs’ political phenomena, in a word their nature and everything that flows from that. While a product of unforced but altogether impressive erudition, Blitz’s book aims to stay as concrete as possible, eschewing the abstractions that largely inform and deform late modern thought. " —Law and Liberty"In the course of this remarkable study, we learn that self-knowledge in our 'post-modern' condition requires seeing ourselves in light of both ancient politics and ancient philosophy; the former is the historical moment that provides the essential touchstone for serious trans-historical comparison of human experience and the latter is the way of seeing and thinking most suited to grasping the nature of things." —Perspectives on Political Science"Blitz makes a strong case for a phenomenological approach to the study of politics. . . . [He] offers a radical, thought-provoking departure from the reigning orthodoxies of the profession." —ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Nature of Practical Action 2. The Nature of Freedom and Rights 3. The Nature of Power and Property 5. The Nature of What is Common 6. The Nature of Goods Conclusion
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University of Notre Dame Press Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism Volume 1
Book SynopsisIt is generally agreed that those types of philosophy that are loosely called ''Platonic'' and ''Neoplatonic'' played a crucial role in the history of European culture during the centuries between antiquity and the Renaissance. However, until now no scholar has attempted to describe the evolution of these forms of thought in a single comprehensive academic study. So writes Stephen Gersh in the preface to Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism: The Latin Tradition.Stephen Gersh's two-volume survey of Platonic influences upon the Middle Ages focuses on questions that are basic to scholars of medieval philosophy, history, and literature: What was the influence of Plato's philosophy during the Middle Ages? Is it correct to consider earlier medieval philosophy as Platonic? How do Platonism and Neoplatonism differ? What do Platonic and Neoplatonic modes of thought have to do with Plato?Most medieval philosophers developed their doctrines without access to the greatest inte
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University of Notre Dame Press Aristotles Discovery of the Human
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This is an outstanding book that makes an innovative and sophisticated contribution to our understanding of the Nicomachean Ethics in particular and of Aristotle’s practical philosophy in general.” —Gerald M. Mara, author of The Civic Conversations of Thucydides and Plato“Notable for clarity, good sense, and insight, Mary Nichols’s lovely book is a delight and a treasure.” —Harvey C. Mansfield, author of Manliness"An impressive and accomplished study of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. . . .Nichols' book is among the very best contemporary studies of Aristotle. Essential." —ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Our Unfinished Humanity: A Divine Gift (Book 1) 2. Ethical Virtue: Nature, Character, and Choice (Books 2-3) 3. The Virtues of Living Together (Book 4) 4. A Shrine to the Graces: Justice and Tragedy (Book 5) 5. Intellectual Virtue: Prudence, Wisdom, and Philosophy (Book 6) 6. Human Strength and Divine Perfection (Book 7) 7. Friendship: Family, Political Community, and Philosophy (Books 8-9) 8. Divine Thoughts and Political Reform (Book 10) Conclusion: Aristotelian Piety for a Liberal Politics
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University of Notre Dame Press Augustine and the Cure of Souls
Book SynopsisAugustine and the Cure of Souls situates Augustine within the ancient philosophical tradition of using words to order emotions, offering a fresh reading of his writings.Trade Review“In Augustine and the Cure of Souls, Paul R. Kolbet . . . reminds us how deeply Augustine was shaped by the ancient world’s rhetorical tradition and shows how he both drew upon it and upended it in his long career of preaching Christ. . . . Because Kolbet’s concern is historical, we should not expect his Augustine to answer all of our questions. But as Kolbet has shown, Augustine has much more to say to us today than we might think. Augustine held that the best way to understand him was to observe his ministry in action, and by patiently doing so, Kolbet has done today’s ministers a great service.” —Christian Century“By placing Augustine in his historical and personal context, the link between his thinking and actual life is made and his sermons are situated in the cultural, philosophical, theological and liturgical context of that period. . . . This study is a new and promising step in the very recent and blooming study of Augustine’s sermons.” —Louvain Journal of Theology and Canon Law“This is a highly readable study on ‘Augustine’s reception of classical traditions of the cure of souls and his transformation of these classical traditions in his Christian rhetoric.’ . . . the book is an admirable presentation of Augustine’s developing thought and its relation to the classical culture in which he was educated, and brings together in an illuminating manner topics previously served less well by separate treatment. It is certainly a book to recommend to students of Augustine and to would-be catechists or preachers.” —Journal of Theological Studies“Augustine and the Cure of Souls is a fine and thought-provoking book. Kolbet makes a persuasive case that Augustine’s pastoral theory and homiletical practice can be better understood when seen as part of a long line of development of the broad stream of Greco-Roman philosophico-rhetorical therapy and as a self-consciously Christian appropriation thereof.” —The Medieval Review“Kolbet’s illuminating and original study bridges a wealth of diverse Augustinian themes through the lens of rhetoric.” —Theological Studies“Kolbet does a masterful job of surveying the classical literature of ancient therapeutic practice and showing how Augustine relates to it at the various stages of his development. Focusing on this theme shows the reader a particular vision of Augustine as a pastor within his Roman and Hellenistic context.” —Anglican Theological Review“Paul Kolbet is to be congratulated on this book, which reminds us what Augustine owed to the dominant cultural force of his society. . . . a study which will be of the greatest value to all who seek a better understanding of the shaping and operation of Augustine’s remarkable intellect.” —Journal of Ecclesiastical History“. . . provides an excellent introduction for early modernists of recent developments in Augustine studies in thinking of Augustine as theological rhetor and rhetorician. . . . Augustine and the Cure of Souls is a superb disclosure of Augustinian psychagogy, one that can enable new work in Augustine’s theory and practice of the sermon.” —Sixteenth Century Journal“This lucid and thoughtful book explores the idea that ‘psychagogy’ was an important guiding theme and grounding project throughout Augustine’s life. ‘Psychagogy’ is understood in two senses: as guidance for one’s own soul and that of others. What is involved is a process that combines intellectual or scholarly and ethical or spiritual dimensions. Crucially, for Augustine, as Kolbet presents him, the process forms an ongoing, and inevitably incomplete, journey towards spiritual understanding.” —Journal of Roman Studies"Augustine and the Cure of Souls is a great read for anyone. Relative novices find here a well-integrated picture of Augustine and great examples of his adaptation of his classical inheritance, of his turning the "pagan water" into the "Christian wine." More seasoned scholars, in turn, can test some of their commonly accepted stereotypes as well as find new and important ways of seeing the well-known texts of Augustine." —The Thomist
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University of Notre Dame Press God as Reason
Book SynopsisIn God as Reason: Essays in Philosophical Theology, Vittorio Hösle presents a systematic exploration of the relation between theology and philosophy. In examining the problems and historical precursors of rational theology, he calls on philosophy, theology, history of science, and the history of ideas to find an interpretation of Christianity that is compatible with a genuine commitment to reason. The essays in the first part of God as Reason deal with issues of philosophical theology. Hösle sketches the challenges that a rationalist theology must face and discusses some of the central ones, such as the possibility of a teleological interpretation of nature after Darwin, the theodicy issue, freedom versus determinism, the mindbody problem, and the relation in general between religion, theology, and philosophy. In the essays of the second part, Hösle studies the historical development of philosophical approaches to the Bible, the continuity between the New TestamTrade Review"God as Reason makes a powerful contribution to the task of the philosophical assessment of religion and theology, and indeed to the task of arriving at a philosophically defensible account of God. Vittorio Hösle here addresses key questions concerning teleology in nature, theodicy, freedom and determinism, and the mind-body problem in essays of exemplary clarity and economy of expression that are equally informed by the full breadth of the philosophical tradition of the West and by the most important contemporary developments in both philosophy and the natural sciences." —Jennifer A. Herdt, Yale Divinity School"The essays in this collection constitute a fresh exploration of the relation between theology and philosophy throughout the history of the Western world and a brilliant achievement. This is truly a book for our post-secular age. It is a text peppered with criticism of our contemporary attitudes in very numerous fields including philosophy, ours being a 'time in which the essence of philosophy is being undermined by an increasingly narrow specialization,' and it stimulates the reader on almost every page. This is not only a major challenge to fideists and fundamentalists of every hue, and a demonstration of the centrality of the quest for rational religion in our not so secular age, but a powerful challenge to the secularists themselves." —Jonathan Israel, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University“With an inductive style, Hösle seeks to demonstrate his thesis that ‘modernity is Christianity’s legitimate child’. . . . God as Reason is an elegant demonstration of Hösle’s masterful grasp of historical philosophy and theology.” —Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies“Vittorio Hösle’s latest publication is an excellent look at the interrelatedness of faith and reason. He presents a fascinating series of essays, all written between 1997 and 2009, in an attempt ‘to find an interpretation of Christianity that is compatible with . . . [a] commitment to reason.’ Of notable interest in this volume is Hösle’s philosophical dialogue between the mind and body, which contains several humorous exchanges.” —Catholic Library World“[Hösle] shows an especially sensitive appreciation for the ‘pragmatics’ of the exchange between the various parties before turning to consider their arguments. His treatment concludes with a useful summary and the provocative idea that ‘the human prospect would look better than it does if a function equivalent to [a common religion] could be found for the twenty-first century.’” —Toronto Journal of Theology
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Pennsylvania State University Press An Image of the Soul in Speech Plato and the
Book SynopsisInvestigates what Nietzsche called the problem of Socrates, as that problem manifests itself in Plato's work. In particular, the book demonstrates how Socrates' own confrontation with this problem is the key to understanding the distinctively mimetic, dialogic, and reflexive character of Socratic philosophy.Trade Review“This is a book whose subtext seems to be: Plato is good to think with. It is a self-standing work of philosophy as much as it is a hermeneutic enterprise. McNeill’s exploration of the model of human self-understanding and political engagement presented in Plato’s dialogues is sophisticated, committed, insightful, and wholly original.”—G. R. F. Ferrari,University of California, Berkeley“In extending and deepening our understanding of Plato’s depiction of Socrates’ subtle sense of human motivation, thought and action, this book makes a valuable contribution to the large body of scholarship on the figure of Socrates.”—Sara Brill PolisTable of ContentsContents1. Introduction: Plato’s Socrates on the “Problem of Socrates”2. Republic Book 1: Philosophy and Cultural Decadence3. Polemarchus, Politics, and Action4. Thrasymachus, Rhetoric, and the Art of Rule5. Gorgias and the Divine Work of Persuasion6. Protagoras, Antinaturalism, and the Political Art7. Tyrannical Eros and the Philosophic Orientation of the Republic8. Imitation and Experience9. Poetry, Psychology, and τò θυμoειδες10. Psychology and OntologyConclusion: An Image of the Soul in SpeechReferencesIndex
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Yale University Press The Republic
Book SynopsisProvides a translation of the dialogues of Plato. This book argues that the particular formulation by Plato had a direct and profound influence on the Founding Fathers and the development of American constitutional law.
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The University of Michigan Press A Commentary on Cicero De Divinatione II
Book SynopsisOffers the first commentary on Cicero's De Divinatione II in nearly a century. This commentary equips students and scholars with the kinds of historical and philosophical background and linguistic and stylistic information needed to understand and appreciate Cicero's text on Roman religion and divination.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Writing Imperial History
Book SynopsisOffers the first comprehensive analysis of Tacitus’ five texts and their interconnections and serves to confront longstanding assumptions that have led to a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature and development of his oeuvre and historical thinking.Trade Review“The author’s writing is clear and straightforward, and his knowledge of Tacitean scholarship is also impressive. Overall, the book is peppered with interesting insights. Ten Berge is a diligent and careful scholar.” —Eric Adler, University of MarylandTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Preliminary Remarks: Background Tacitus and Verginius Rufus: Funeral and Ideology CHAPTER 1: Agricola: Enunciating Tacitean Concerns and Techniques CHAPTER 2: Germania: Reading Ethnography alongside Biography CHAPTER 3: Dialogus de Oratoribus: Rehabilitating the ‘Anomaly’ CHAPTER 4: Historiae: Biography, Ethnography, and Dialogue as Sources for Historiographical Narrative CHAPTER 5: Annales: Finalizing an Integrated Project Epilogue Bibliography Index Locorum
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University of California Press Essays on Aristotles Rhetoric
Book SynopsisThis anthology presents Aristotle's Rhetoric in its original context, providing examples of the kind of oratory whose success Aristotle explains and analyzes. It assesses the role and the techniques of rhetorical persuasion in philosophic discourse and the public sphere.Table of ContentsCONTRIBUTORS: Jacques Brunschwig, M. F. Burnyeat, Christopher Carey, John M. Cooper, Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Dorothea Frede, Stephen Halliwell, T. H. Irwin, George A. Kennedy, Stephen R. Leighton, Richard Moran, Martha Craven Nussbaum, C. D. C. Reeve, Paul Ricoeur, Amelie Oksenberg Rorty, Gisela Striker, Robert Wardy
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University of California Press The Greeks and the Irrational
Book SynopsisTakes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism. Using the analytical tools of modern anthropology and psychology, this title asks, 'Why should we attribute to the ancient Greeks an immunity from 'primitive' modes of thought which we do not find in any society open to our direct observation?'.Trade Review“Impeccable scholarship. . . . a gracefully written, shimmering work.” * The Atlantic *"A fascinating journey." * Metapsychology Online Review *"One of those rare books whose significance does not exhaust itself in its results and conclusions. It teaches us to read Greek literature with a new awareness of things hitherto neglected and quickens our sensitivity." * American Journal of Philology *"A well-written and beautifully printed volume." * Classical Bulletin *Table of ContentsI Agamemnon's Apology II From Shame-Culture to Guilt-Culture III The Blessings of Madness IV Dream-Pattern and Culture-Pattern V The Greek Shamans and the Origin of Puritanism VI Rationalism and Reaction in the Classical Age VII Plato, the Irrational Soul, and the Inherited Conglomerate VIII The Fear of Freedom Appendix I Maenadism Appendix II Theurgy Index
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University of California Press Aristotle and Xenophon on Democracy and Oligarchy
Book SynopsisA collection that contains - Aristotle's The Constitution of Athens; Xenophon's The Politeia of the Spartans; The Constitution of the Athenians ascribed to Xenophon the Orator; and, The Boeotian Constitution from the Oxyrhynchus Historian.Trade Review"This collection proves invaluable for both scholars and teaching purposes." -- Marlene K. Sokolon European LegacyTable of ContentsForeword to the 2010 Edition Preface PART I THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ATHENIANS Ascribed to Xenophon the Orator Introduction The Main Topics The Constitution of the Athenians Commentary Select Bibliography THE POLITEIA OF THE SPARTANS By Xenophon Glossary Introduction The Politeia of the Spartans Commentary Select Bibliography THE BOEOTIAN CONSTITUTION From the Oxyrhynchus Historian Introduction The Boeotian Constitution Commentary Select Bibliography Appendix to Part I: Herodotus III,80-82 PART II THE CONSTITUTION OF ATHENS By Aristotle Glossary Introduction The Constitution of Athens Commentary Appendix to Part II Select Bibliography Index MAPS 1. Ancient Greece pages 2. Boeotia and Attica pages 3. Messenia and Laconia pages
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University of California Press A Free Will
Book SynopsisWhere does the notion of free will come from? How and when did it develop, and what did that development involve? This title offers an account of the history, the notion of a free will that emerged from powerful assumptions about the relation between divine providence, correctness of individual choice, and self-enslavement due to incorrect choice.Trade Review"...One can only feel awe before the breadth of [Frede's] learning and the depth of his insight." -- Charles Kahn * Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie *“In this posthumously published volume, comprising lectures delivered in Berkeley in fall 1997, Frede reflects on the concept of a free will in ancient thought.”“Summing Up: Highly recommended.” -- J Bussanich * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword Editor's Preface Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Aristotle on Choice without a Will Chapter 3. The Emergence of a Notion of Will in Stoicism Chapter 4. Later Platonist and Peripatetic Contributions Chapter 5. The Emergence of a Notion of a Free Will in Stoicism Chapter 6. Platonist and Peripatetic Criticisms and Responses Chapter 7. An Early Christian View on a Free Will: Origen Chapter 8. Reactions to the Stoic Notion of a Free Will: Plotinus Chapter 9. Augustine: A Radically New Notion of a Free Will? Chapter 10. Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Question of Eclecticism
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.
£28.90
University of California Press Greek Skepticism
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.
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