Studies on Plato, Aristotle and Proclus: The Collected Essays on Ancient Philosophy of John Cleary

John Joseph Cleary

BRILL, 2013 - Philosophy - 609 pages

John 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.

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 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 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 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
• Index of Modern Authors: 607

About the author

John J. Cleary received a first class honours MA from University College Dublin in 1975 for a thesis on Karl Popper, and in 1981 a Ph.D. ("summa cum laude") from Boston University for a dissertation on Aristotle s theory of abstraction. Besides his main publications ("Aristotle on the Many Senses of Priority," 1988), and "Aristotle and Mathematics: Aporetic Method in Cosmology and Metaphysics," 1995) he wrote widely on ancient philosophy, philosophy of mathematics, and theories of education. John Dillon graduated in Literae Humaniores from Oxford in 1963, and received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969. He taught at Berkeley until 1980, when he was appointed to the Regius Professorship of Greek at Trinity College Dublin, where he remained until his retirement in 2006. He is the author or editor of over 30 books in Greek Philosophy, in particular the history of the Platonic tradition. Brendan O'Byrne is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy as well as Curator of the Dublin Centre for the Study of the Platonic Tradition, Trinity College Dublin. He wrote his Ph.D. dissertation (2001) under Professor John Dillon on the subject of Heidegger's encounter with Plato. He is currently working on the theme of self-knowledge in Sophocles and Plato. Fran O Rourke is Associate Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin. He studied at Galway, Vienna, K ln, Louvain, and Leuven. He is author of "Pseudo-Dionysius and the Metaphysics of Aquinas" (2005) and "Allwisest Stagyrite: Joyce s Quotations from Aristotle" (2005). He is preparing for publication a collection of essays entitled "Aristotelian Interpretations," and completing a book on James Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Studies on Plato, Aristotle and Proclus: The Collected Essays on Ancient Philosophy of John Cleary; Volume 15 of Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts, 1871-188X; Volume 15 of Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition; Volume 15 of Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition
• Author: John Joseph Cleary
• Editors: John Myles Dillon, Dr. Brendan O'Byrne, Fran O'Rourke
• Publisher: BRILL, 2013
• ISBN: 9004233237, 9789004233232
• Length: 609 pages
• Subjects: History / Ancient / General; Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical