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Book SynopsisThis volume, the twenty-fifth year of published proceedings, contains seven papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2008-9. The papers treat topics including: mind and body in Heraclitus and Anaxagoras, a reconsideration of Socratic intellectualism, the positive motivational intent of Platonic poetics, politics and dialectic in the Statesman, Aristotle on community life, the nature of virtue according to Chrysippus, and the beauty of scientific knowledge in Proclus.
Table of ContentsPreface: John J. Cleary, 1949-2009 Addendum 2010 COLLOQUIUM 1 Thought and Body in Heraclitus and Anaxagoras PATRICIA CURD Commentary on Curd KEITH MCPARTLAND Curd/McPartland Bibliography COLLOQUIUM 2 Living Well and Living Together: Politics VII 1-3 and the Discovery of the Common Life EUGENE GARVER Commentary on Garver THORNTON LOCKWOOD Garver/Lockwood Bibliography COLLOQUIUM 3 Why Beauty is Truth in All We Know: Aesthetics and Mimesis in Neoplatonic Science MARIJE MARTIJN Commentary on Martijn DMITRI NIKULIN Martijn/Nikulin Bibliography COLLOQUIUM 4 Politics and Dialectic in Plato’s Statesman DIMITRI EL MURR Commentary on El Murr CHRISTINE J. THOMAS El Murr/Thomas Bibliography COLLOQUIUM 5 Is Virtue Knowledge? Socratic Intellectualism Reconsidered JÖRG HARDY Commentary on Hardy DAVID ROOCHNIK Hardy/Roochnik Bibliography COLLOQUIUM 6 On the Chrysippean Thesis that the Virtues are Poia BERNARD COLLETTE-DUČIĆ Commentary on Collette-Dučić BRIAN EARL JOHNSON Collette-Dučić/Johnson Bibliography COLLOQUIUM 7 Happiness, Justice, and Poetry in Plato’s Republic PIERRE DESTRÉE Commentary on Destrée MAY SIM Destrée/Sim Bibliography About our Contributors Index of Names
