Studies on Plato, Aristotle and Proclus: The Collected Essays on Ancient Philosophy of John ClearyJohn J. Cleary (1949 2009) was an internationally recognised authority in ancient Greek philosophy. This volume of penetrating studies of Plato, Aristotle, and Proclus, philosophy of mathematics, and ancient theories of education, display Cleary s range of expertise and originality of approach. |
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Contents
Back to the Texts Themselves | 3 |
The Paideia of the Historical Protagoras | 19 |
Competing Models of Paideia in Platos Gorgias | 37 |
Erotic Paideia in Platos Symposium | 53 |
Cultivating Intellectual Virtue in Platos PhilosopherRulers | 73 |
Paideia in Platos Laws | 99 |
Socratic Influences on Aristotles Ethical Inquiry | 111 |
Akrasia and Moral Education in Aristotle | 131 |
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY B Aristotle | 299 |
On the Terminology of Abstraction in Aristotle | 301 |
Science Universals and Reality | 333 |
Phainomena in Aristotles Methodology | 379 |
Aristotles Criticism of Platos Theory of Form Numbers | 415 |
Aristotles Criticism of Platos First Principles | 441 |
Should One Pray for Aristotles Best Polis? | 465 |
Emending Aristotles Division of Theoretical Sciences | 479 |
HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS | 151 |
The Mathematical Cosmology of Platos Timaeus | 153 |
Abstracting Aristotles Philosophy of Mathematics | 181 |
Proclus Philosophy of Mathematics | 201 |
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY A Plato | 221 |
Platos Teleological Atomism | 223 |
The Role of Theology in Platos Laws | 233 |
The Concept of Potency in Plato and Aristotle | 251 |
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY C Proclus and Later | 513 |
Proclus Elaborate Defence of Platonic Ideas | 515 |
Proclus as a Reader of Platos Timaeus | 525 |
Proclus and Hegel | 543 |
Platos Philebus as a Gadamerian Conversation? | 565 |
Bibliographies | 585 |
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