This volume, the thirtieth year of published proceedings, contains five papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during academic year 2013-14. The paper topics include: pleasure in the Philebus under the rubric of the fourfold structure of reality; the tension between the good of the city and the good of the citizens in the Republic; the relation of self-knowledge to dialectic in Theaetetus and Alcibiades I; a close examination of the interplay of the characters in the Sophist to counter Platoâs replacement of Socrates by the Eleatic Stranger; and three autobiographical passages in different dialogues to establish philosophical practice as intellectual and emotional together.
Gary M. Gurtler, S.J., is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He has published on ancient philosophy, including 2 books, Plotinus: The Experience of Unity (1988) and Ennead IV.4.30-45, IV.5, Translation and Commentary (2015), as well as articles on Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus.
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. A collection of his work was published as Logos and Muthos: Philosophical Essays in Greek Literature (2009). A second volume is in preparation.
Contributors include Zina Giannopoulou, Jill Gordon, Drew Hyland, Cristina Ionescu, Marina McCoy, John Partridge, Gerasimos Santas, Anne-Marie Schultz, Rachel Singpurwalla, and Suzanne Stern-Gillet.
All those interested in recent scholarship within different traditions of interpretation in ancient philosophy, including scholars and graduate students.