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Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Volume XXV (2009)
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This 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.
Gary M. Gurtler, S.J., is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He has published on ancient philosophy, with special attention to Neoplatonism, including a book on Plotinus: The Experience of Unity (1988).
William Wians is Professor of Philosophy at Merrimack College. He has edited five previous volumes of BACAP proceedings and written numerous articles and reviews on ancient philosophy. His collection Logos and Muthos: Philosophical Essays in Greek Literature was recently published.
Contributors are Bernard Collette-DuÄiÄ, Patricia Curd, Pierre Destrée, Dimitri El Murr, Eugene Garver, Jörg Hardy, Brian Earl Johnson, Thornton Lockwood, Marije Martijn, Keith McPartland, Dmitri Nikulin, David Roochnik, May Sim, and Christine J. Thomas.
William Wians is Professor of Philosophy at Merrimack College. He has edited five previous volumes of BACAP proceedings and written numerous articles and reviews on ancient philosophy. His collection Logos and Muthos: Philosophical Essays in Greek Literature was recently published.
Contributors are Bernard Collette-DuÄiÄ, Patricia Curd, Pierre Destrée, Dimitri El Murr, Eugene Garver, Jörg Hardy, Brian Earl Johnson, Thornton Lockwood, Marije Martijn, Keith McPartland, Dmitri Nikulin, David Roochnik, May Sim, and Christine J. Thomas.
Preface: 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 Platoâs Statesman
DIMITRI EL MURR
Commentary on El Murr
CHRISTINE J. THOMAS
El Murr/Thomas Bibliography
COLLOQUIUM 5
Is Virtue Knowledge? Socratic Intellectualism Reconsidered
JÃRG HARDY
Commentary on Hardy
DAVID ROOCHNIK
Hardy/Roochnik Bibliography
COLLOQUIUM 6
On the Chrysippean Thesis that the Virtues are Poia
BERNARD COLLETTE-DUÄIÄ
Commentary on Collette-DuÄiÄ
BRIAN EARL JOHNSON
Collette-DuÄiÄ/Johnson Bibliography
COLLOQUIUM 7
Happiness, Justice, and Poetry in Platoâs Republic
PIERRE DESTRÃE
Commentary on Destrée
MAY SIM
Destrée/Sim Bibliography
About our Contributors
Index of Names
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 Platoâs Statesman
DIMITRI EL MURR
Commentary on El Murr
CHRISTINE J. THOMAS
El Murr/Thomas Bibliography
COLLOQUIUM 5
Is Virtue Knowledge? Socratic Intellectualism Reconsidered
JÃRG HARDY
Commentary on Hardy
DAVID ROOCHNIK
Hardy/Roochnik Bibliography
COLLOQUIUM 6
On the Chrysippean Thesis that the Virtues are Poia
BERNARD COLLETTE-DUÄIÄ
Commentary on Collette-DuÄiÄ
BRIAN EARL JOHNSON
Collette-DuÄiÄ/Johnson Bibliography
COLLOQUIUM 7
Happiness, Justice, and Poetry in Platoâs Republic
PIERRE DESTRÃE
Commentary on Destrée
MAY SIM
Destrée/Sim Bibliography
About our Contributors
Index of Names
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