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Hofenberg Protagoras
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Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht Ars iocandi
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Oxford University Press Richard Rufus of Cornwall In Aristotelis De generatione et corruptione
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Oxford University Press Robert Kilwardby Notule libri Priorum Part 1
Book SynopsisRobert Kilwardby (d.1279) was an English scholar who lectured on logic and grammar at the University of Paris in the 1230s. His lectures earned him widespread fame in Europe. Throughout the thirteenth century and up to the sixteenth, Kilwardby''s lectures on Aristotle''s Prior Analytics were considered to contain the authoritative exposition of Aristotle''s syllogistic logic. They were published at Venice in 1499.Written in the heady atmosphere of the early 1200s, when long-forgotten Aristotelian works were being rediscovered, Kilwardby''s commentary is the work of a penetrating philosophical intellect intent not only on understanding Aristotle''s logic but on pushing it to its limits. The present edition, in two volumes, contains the first critical edition of the lectures, together with an English translation. Part 1 contains an extensive introduction, placing Kilwardby''s work within its historical context and demonstrating its importance both as an exposition of Aristotle''s text anTrade ReviewThe critical edition of Robert Kilwardbys Notule libri Priorum by Thom and Scott is a great scholarly achievement... Their effort and willingness to provide students and scholars alike with an easy to read translation accompanying the critical edition of the original commentary by Kilwardby cannot be overestimated and will certainly be celebrated for years to come. * José Filipe Silva, Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION; NOTULE LIBRI PRIORUM
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Oxford University Press Robert Kilwardby Notule libri Priorum Part 2
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Oxford University Press Geoffrey of Aspall Part 1
Book SynopsisGeoffrey of Aspall, who died in 1287 and was master of Arts by 1262, was active at Oxford in the years 1255 to1265. He wrote commentaries on several Aristotelian works, and was certainly a major protagonist of the introduction of Aristotelian learning to Oxford. In particular, he produced a very extensive question-style commentary on Aristotle''s Physics, which contains important discussions of the fundamental topics of Aristotle''s natural philosophy, like matter, form, natural agency, causes, change, the infinite and the continuum, time, the eternity of the world, self-movers. Aspall''s Physics commentary shows the influence of Grosseteste''s metaphysics of light and of Roger Bacon''s view on the physical role of intentional species, as well as a strong inclination to ontological realism.Aspall''s commentary on Aristotle''s Physics is edited here in two volumes, which together form the first critical edition of this work. The Latin text is accompanied by a facing English translation,Trade ReviewThis is an accurate, erudite and stringent translation of Geoffrey of Aspall's question-style commentary of Aristotle's Physics. * Jason Wakefield, Avello Publishing Journal *...a rich and interesting book...This excellent Latin edition and lucid accompanying English translation will undoubtedly serve researchers fro generations to come. * Boaz Faraday Schuman, The Journal of Medieval Latin *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Life and works of Geoffrey of Aspall 2: The Questions on the Physics 3: Manuscript tradition and editorial principles 4: Presentation of the text 5: The main doctrinal points of Geoffrey of Aspall's Questions on the Physics Bibliography QUAESTIONES SUPER PHYSICAM, LIBRI I-IV, VIII (Recensio O) Tabula quaestionum / List of questions LIBER I / BOOK I LIBER II / BOOK II LIBER IV / BOOK IV LIBER III / BOOK III LIBER VIII / BOOK VIII
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Oxford University Press Geoffrey of Aspall Part 2
Book SynopsisGeoffrey of Aspall, who died in 1287 and was master of Arts by 1262, was active at Oxford in the years 1255 to1265. He wrote commentaries on several Aristotelian works, and was certainly a major protagonist of the introduction of Aristotelian learning to Oxford. In particular, he produced a very extensive question-style commentary on Aristotle''s Physics, which contains important discussions of the fundamental topics of Aristotle''s natural philosophy, like matter, form, natural agency, causes, change, the infinite and the continuum, time, the eternity of the world, self-movers. Aspall''s Physics commentary shows the influence of Grosseteste''s metaphysics of light and of Roger Bacon''s view on the physical role of intentional species, as well as a strong inclination to ontological realism.Aspall''s commentary on Aristotle''s Physics is edited here in two volumes, which together form the first critical edition of this work. The Latin text is accompanied by a facing English translation,Trade Review...a rich and interesting book...This excellent Latin edition and lucid accompanying English translation will undoubtedly serve researchers fro generations to come. * Boaz Faraday Schuman, The Journal of Medieval Latin *Table of ContentsAPENDIX
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OUP Oxford Adam of Bockenfield and his circle on Aristotles De memoria et reminiscentia
Book SynopsisThe book focuses on the teaching of Adam of Bockenfield, a key figure in the history of the introduction of Aristotle's natural philosophy in England. It offers an edition of three early Latin commentaries on the tract On memory and recollection, all of them produced in the nascent Faculty of Arts at the University of Oxford.Table of ContentsForeward HISTORICAL AND DOCTRINAL INTRODUCTION Presentation and general overview 1: The De memoria et reminiscentia and its Early Latin Reception 2: Master Adam of Bockenfield on the De memoria 3: The Commentaries on the De memoria by Adam and his Circle 4: The Lisbon Commentary and Adam of Bockenfield 5: The Sententia de memoria: Genesis, Doctrine, and Influence 6: Exegesis and doctrine General Conclusions CRITICAL EDITIONS AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION 1: Description of the manuscripts 2: The "In precedenti libro" commentary 3: The "Quibusdam naturalis philosophie" commentary 4: The "Quoniam ut complete" commentary Index Bibliography
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The University of Chicago Press How Philosophy Became Socratic
Book SynopsisPlato's dialogues show Socrates at different ages, beginning when he was about nineteen and already deeply immersed in philosophy and ending with his execution five decades later. Offering an analysis of Plato's "Protagoras, Charmides, and Republic", this book charts Socrates' discovery of a proper politics to shelter and advance philosophy.Trade Review"This book offers an extraordinarily rich, illuminating, thought-provoking, and original account of Protagoras, Charmides, and the Republic in particular and of Socrates's thought as a whole. Even - and especially - when one disagrees with this stimulating and daring work, one learns a great deal from it. It is a remarkably ambitious book, one that attempts to put forth an interpretation of Plato's entire corpus and its role in Western civilization." (Peter Ahrensdorf, Davidson College)"
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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. In this book, the author explains how these prose dramas cohere to reveal a comprehensive Platonic understanding of philosophy.Trade Review"Brimming with original insights, this massive book offers a comprehensive vision of the entire Platonic corpus.... Both analytic philosophers and literary interpreters, who eschew argument in favor of artistic structure and presentation of character, will profit from engagement with this brilliant study.... This book will allow scholars of all persuasions to make discoveries at every turn as the author guides them through territory they thought they knew well." (Choice)"
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The University of Chicago Press Aristotles Teaching in the Politics
Book SynopsisWith the Politics, the author argues, Aristotle seeks to lead his students down a deliberately difficult path of critical thinking about civic republican life. He adopts a Socratic approach, encouraging his students - and readers - to become active participants in a dialogue.Trade Review"Thomas L. Pangle is an eminent political theorist whose interpretation of one of the fundamental books of the tradition will be widely welcomed. He employs, as always, an impressive range of scholarship, including not only the classical literature and most of the relevant contemporary scholarship, but an array of nineteenth-century scholars not often referenced or read. Aristotle's Teaching in the 'Politics' is fresh and full of insight." (Carnes Lord, translator of Aristotle's "Politics")"
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The University of Chicago Press Art and Truth after Plato
Book SynopsisDespite its foundational role in the history of philosophy, Plato's famous argument that art does not have access to truth or knowledge is now rarely examined, in part because recent philosophers have assumed that Plato's challenge was resolved long ago. In this title, the author argues that Plato has in fact never been satisfactorily answered.Trade Review"Art and Truth after Plato is a highly important contribution to the philosophy of art, aesthetics, and the history of philosophy generally. Tom Rockmore successfully explores one of the fundamental problems in the history of philosophy, namely, appearance and reality, mimesis and representation, and their bearing on the question of truth, and he does so in a way that is engaging and highly readable. Indeed, his literary style is exceptionally lucid and clear. His work easily ranks with the best in contemporary philosophy." (Alan Olson, Boston University)"
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The University of Chicago Press The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy
Book SynopsisInterprets and pairs two important Platonic dialogs, the Gorgias and the Phaedrus, illuminating Socrates' notion of rhetoric and Plato's conception of morality and eros in the human soul. This book features a novel interpretation that addresses numerous issues in Plato studies.Trade Review"Benardete puts together, following Platonic clues, what the dialogues keep apart.... This bare sketch... cannot indicate the book's rich texture and fluidity of thought, sensitivity to the nuances of Greek, originality, and difficulty." - Canadian Philosophical Reviews"
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The University of Chicago Press Socrates and the Fat Rabbis
Book SynopsisUsing Michael Bakhtin's notion of represented dialogue and real dialogism, this title demonstrates, through multiple close readings, that the give-and-take in these texts is actually monologic in spirit as well as shows that there are other elements that manifest genuine dialogicality.Trade Review"It is a brilliant and novel move to put the Talmud next to Lucian. Boyarin brings together here some very hot topics: cultural difference, cultural regulation, and the specific interface between Jewish and Greco-Roman culture. Socrates and the Fat Rabbis is a book with intellectual range and ambition. And it is fun - as the title promises." - Simon Goldhill, King's College, University of Cambridge"
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The University of Chicago Press Plato the Myth Maker Emersion Emergent Village
Book SynopsisIn this text, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted and not uncritical description of muthos in light of the latter's famous Atlantis story. He also contrasts this sense of myth, as Plato does, with another form of speech which he believed was far superior: the logos of philosophy.
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The University of Chicago Press Aristotles Dialogue with Socrates
Book SynopsisTracing the argument of the Ethics as it emerges through that approach, this book shows how Aristotle represents ethical virtue from the perspective of those devoted to it while standing back to examine its assumptions and implications.Trade Review"This is the best book I have read on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. It is so well crafted that reading it is like reading the Ethics itself, in that it provides an education in ethical matters that does justice to all sides of the issues." - Mary P. Nichols, Baylor University"
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The University of Chicago Press Aristotles Dialogue with Socrates
Book SynopsisTracing the argument of the Ethics as it emerges through that approach, this book shows how Aristotle represents ethical virtue from the perspective of those devoted to it while standing back to examine its assumptions and implications.Trade Review"This is the best book I have read on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. It is so well crafted that reading it is like reading the Ethics itself, in that it provides an education in ethical matters that does justice to all sides of the issues." - Mary P. Nichols, Baylor University"
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The University of Chicago Press Platos World Mans Place in the Cosmos
Book SynopsisThis text examines the relationship between Plato's conception of the nature of the universe, and his moral and political thought. Cropsey interprets seven of Plato's dialogues here - Theaetetus, Euthyphro, Sophist, Statesman, Apology, Crito and Phaedo.
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The University of Chicago Press Virtue Is Knowledge
Book SynopsisCan Socrates be serious in his claims that human excellence is constituted by one virtue, that vice is merely the result of ignorance, and that the correct response to crime is therefore not punishment but education? Or are these assertions mere rhetorical ploys by a notoriously complex thinker? This book deals with these questions.Trade Review"Virtue Is Knowledge is an extraordinary accomplishment: suffused with insight, gracefully written, and powerfully argued. It will challenge much of the received wisdom about the meaning of the Socratic 'paradox' and set down important signposts for students of Socrates who wish to understand the full dimensions of his defense of philosophy and its significance for moral and political life. The book will easily take its place as one of the gems among the books devoted to the Platonic dialogues." (Susan D. Collins, University of Notre Dame)"
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The University of Chicago Press The Soul of the Greeks
Book SynopsisAnalyzes works by Homer, Herodotus, Euripides, Plato, and Aristotle to reveal how the ancient Greeks portrayed and understood what the author calls 'the fully human soul'. Beginning with Homer's Iliad, this work lays out the tension within the soul of Achilles between immortality and life.Trade Review"The Soul of the Greeks offers fresh interpretations of age-old texts that are deep, insightful, and revelatory. Richly rewarding, lucid, and original, Davis's approach will add substantially to the existing scholarship." (Jill Frank, University of South Carolina)"
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The University of Chicago Press What Did the Romans Know
Book SynopsisExamining the tools and methods that the Romans employed for their investigations of nature, as well as their cultural, intellectual, political, and religious contexts, the author shows that the Romans had sophisticated and novel approaches to nature, approaches that were empirically rigorous, philosophically rich, and epistemologically complex.Trade Review"Brilliantly rethinks both the Roman and our own approaches to the cosmos.... Between the coherent past world that the Romans made and the presumed timelessness of our scientific world, Lehoux leaves us not with an unbridgeable chasm but with his pragmatic realism, born at the confluence of ancient science, historical epistemology and the philosophy of science. First rate." (Times Higher Education)"
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The University of Chicago Press Aristotles Politics Living Well and Living
Book Synopsis"Man is a political animal," Aristotle asserts near the beginning of the Politics. In this reading of one of the foundational texts of political philosophy, the author traces the surprising implications of Aristotle's claim and explores the treatise's relevance to ongoing political concerns.Trade Review"Garver is a skillful interpreter, and it is a privilege to take note as he ruminates on questions most commentators never think to ask." (Choice)"
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The University of Chicago Press Aristotles Teaching in the Politics
Book SynopsisWith Aristotle's Teaching in the "Politics," the author offers a masterly new interpretation of this classic philosophical work. With the Politics, he argues, Aristotle seeks to lead his students down a deliberately difficult path of critical thinking about civic republican life.Trade Review"Through a careful exegesis, Pangle unpacks Aristotle's text and illuminates the work's multilayered rhetorical structure.... Understanding the literary character of the work allows readers to clearly understand its substance.... Anyone with a serious interest in understanding Aristotle will benefit from, and enjoy, reading this book." (Choice) "Pangle is one of our finest contemporary political philosophers. His contributions to the study of classical political philosophy are well known. The appearance of his book on Aristotle's Politics is thus an occasion of note.... Readers will find themselves provoked by Pangle's exegesis to return to the Politics itself-a result, no doubt, that would please him most of all." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review)"
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The University of Chicago Press City and Soul in Platos Republic
Book SynopsisTracing a central theme of Plato's Republic, the author reconsiders in this study the nature and purpose of the comparison between the structure of society and that of the individual soul. With clarity and insight, he conveys the relation between the city and the soul and the choice between tyranny and philosophy.Trade Review"The good thing about this little book is that it is controversial. Ferrari is not afraid to stick his neck out, and he forces one to reexamine what one thinks oneself, if one disagrees with him." - John Dillon, Bryn Mawr Classical Review"
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The University of Chicago Press Confronting Aristotles Ethics
Book SynopsisWhat is the good life? Posing this question today would likely elicit very different answers. But for Aristotle these two ideas - doing good and doing well - were one and the same and could be realized in a single life. The author draws a conclusion from Aristotle's works, and studying this conception of the good life relates to ideas of morality.
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The University of Chicago Press Art and Truth after Plato
Book SynopsisPresents a fresh look at an ancient question, bringing it into contemporary relief. This volume offers a comprehensive account of Plato's influence through nearly the whole history of Western aesthetics.Trade Review"Art and Truth after Plato is a highly important contribution to the philosophy of art, aesthetics, and the history of philosophy generally. Rockmore successfully explores one of the fundamental problems in the history of philosophy, namely, appearance and reality, mimesis and representation, and their bearing on the question of truth, and he does so in a way that is engaging and highly readable. Indeed, the literary style of Rockmore is exceptionally lucid and clear. His work easily ranks with the best in contemporary philosophy." (Alan Olson, Boston University)
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The University of Chicago Press Confronting Aristotles Ethics
Book SynopsisWhat is the good life? Posing this question today would likely elicitvery different answers. Some might say that the good life means doing good-improving one's community and the lives of others. Others might respond that it means doing well-cultivating one's own abilities in a meaningful way. But for Aristotle these two distinct ideas-doing good and doing well-were one and the same and could be realized in a single life. In Confronting Aristotle's Ethics, Eugene Garver examines how we can draw this conclusion from Aristotle's works, while also studying how this conception of the good life relates to contemporary ideas of morality. The key to Aristotle's views on ethics, argues Garver, liesin the Metaphysics or, more specifically, in his thoughts on activities, actions, and capacities. For Aristotle, Garver shows, it is only possible to be truly active when acting for the common good, and it is only possible to be truly happy when active to the extent of one's own powers. But does this mean we should aspire to Aristotle's impossibly demandingvision of the good life? In a word, no. Garver stressesthe enormous gap between life in Aristotle's time and ours. As a result, this bookwill be a welcome rumination on not only Aristotle, but the relationship between the individual and society in everyday life.
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The University of Chicago Press Poetic Justice
Book SynopsisWhen Plato set his dialogs, written texts were disseminated primarily by performance and recitation. He wrote them, however, when literacy was expanding. Jill Frank argues that there are unique insights to be gained from appreciating Plato's dialogs as written texts to be read and reread. At the center of these insights are two distinct ways of learning to read in the dialogs. One approach that appears in the Statesman, Sophist, and Protagoras, treats learning to read as a top-down affair, in which authoritative teachers lead students to true beliefs. Another, recommended by Socrates, encourages trial and error and the formation of beliefs based on students' own fallible experiences. In all of these dialogs, learning to read is likened to coming to know or understand something. Given Plato's repeated presentation of the analogy between reading and coming to know, what can these two approaches tell us about his dialogs' representations of philosophy and politics? With Poetic Justice, Ji
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The University of Chicago Press Aristotle
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The University of Chicago Press Sophistry and Political Philosophy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"For generations to come, this study--on account of the graceful lucidity of its prose and the penetrating depth of its interpretative analysis--will be the essential guide to Plato's rich and dramatic confrontation with the challenge of Protagoras."--Thomas L. Pangle, University of Texas at Austin "Near the beginning of Sophistry and Political Philosophy, the author cites Friedrich Nietzsche's observation that our 'contemporary way of thinking' is 'Protagorean.' If so, then understanding sophistry in general and its inventor, Protagoras, in particular is a key to understanding ourselves. . . . Robert Bartlett is an ideal guide for such an exploration."--Claremont Review of Books "This book is a careful, insightful, analysis of Plato's Protagoras, and of the examination of Protagoras' teaching in Plato's Theaetetus. Through his discussions, Bartlett provides us with a very thoughtful exploration of the important and enduring problem of the relation between philosophy and sophistry."--Mark Blitz, Claremont McKenna College
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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"
£28.00
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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