Spectacles Of Truth In Classical Greek Philosophy

Author : Andrea Wilson Nightingale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139454643

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Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy by Andrea Wilson Nightingale Pdf

In fourth-century Greece (BCE), the debate over the nature of philosophy generated a novel claim: that the highest form of wisdom is theoria, the rational 'vision' of metaphysical truths (the 'spectator theory of knowledge'). This 2004 book offers an original analysis of the construction of 'theoretical' philosophy in fourth-century Greece. In the effort to conceptualise and legitimise theoretical philosophy, the philosophers turned to a venerable cultural practice: theoria (state pilgrimage). In this practice, an individual journeyed abroad as an official witness of sacralized spectacles. This book examines the philosophic appropriation and transformation of theoria, and analyses the competing conceptions of theoretical wisdom in fourth-century philosophy. By tracing the link between traditional and philosophic theoria, this book locates the creation of theoretical philosophy in its historical context, analysing theoria as a cultural and an intellectual practice. It develops a new, interdisciplinary approach, drawing on philosophy, history and literary studies.

Author : Andrea Nightingale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108837309

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Philosophy and Religion in Plato's Dialogues by Andrea Nightingale Pdf

Challenges the idea that Plato is a secular thinker, exploring the interaction of philosophy and Greek religion in the dialogues.

Author : Nicholas Denyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134870332

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Language, Thought and Falsehood in Ancient Greek Philosophy by Nicholas Denyer Pdf

This book, originally published in 1991, sets forth the assumptions about thought and language that made falsehood seem so problematic to Plato and his contemporaries, and expounds the solution that Plato finally reached in the Sophist. Free from untranslated Greek, the book is accessible to all studying ancient Greek philosophy. As a well-documented case study of a definitive advance in logic, metaphysics and epistemology, the book will also appeal to philosophers generally.

Author : Andrea Nightingale,David Sedley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139489768

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Ancient Models of Mind by Andrea Nightingale,David Sedley Pdf

How does God think? How, ideally, does a human mind function? Must a gap remain between these two paradigms of rationality? Such questions exercised the greatest ancient philosophers, including those featured in this book: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Plotinus. This volume encompasses a series of studies by leading scholars, revisiting key moments of ancient philosophy and highlighting the theme of human and divine rationality in both moral and cognitive psychology. It is a tribute to Professor A. A. Long, and reflects multiple themes of his own work.

Author : Jody Azzouni
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190622558

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Ontology Without Borders by Jody Azzouni Pdf

A new approach to the metaphysics, background logic, and semantics of ontological debate, Ontology Without Borders offers new solutions to perennial philosophical puzzles about constitution and the nonexistent. Book jacket.

Author : John P. Anton,Anthony Preus
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1984-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791495032

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Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy II by John P. Anton,Anthony Preus Pdf

Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, Volume Two, reflects the refinements in scholarship and philosophical analysis that have impacted classical philosophy in recent years. It is a selection of the best papers presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy during the last decade. The papers presented indicate a shift in accent from a predominant preference for the application of linguistic methods in the study of texts to a more intensified concern for contextual examinations of philosophical concepts. The works of both younger scholars and senior authors show a more liberal, yet controlled, use of historical and cultural elements in interpretation. The papers also reflect advances in scholarship in adjacent fields of Greek studies. From pre-Socratic to post-Aristotelian philosophers, the papers in this volume are intended to stimulate interest in the major accomplishments of classical philosophers. This work augments its companion volume Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy.

Author : Heather L. Reid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317984955

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Athletics and Philosophy in the Ancient World by Heather L. Reid Pdf

This book examines the relationship between athletics and philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome focused on the connection between athleticism and virtue. It begins by observing that the link between athleticism and virtue is older than sport, reaching back to the athletic feats of kings and pharaohs in early Egypt and Mesopotamia. It then traces the role of athletics and the Olympic Games in transforming the idea of aristocracy as something acquired by birth to something that can be trained. This idea of training virtue through the techniques and practice of athletics is examined in relation to Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Then Roman spectacles such as chariot racing and gladiator games are studied in light of the philosophy of Lucretius, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius. The concluding chapter connects the book’s ancient observations with contemporary issues such as the use of athletes as role models, the relationship between money and corruption, the relative worth of participation and spectatorship, and the role of females in sport. The author argues that there is a strong link between sport and philosophy in the ancient world, calling them offspring of common parents: concern about virtue and the spirit of free enquiry. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Ethics and Sport.

Author : Anthony Preus
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781442246393

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Historical Dictionary of Ancient Greek Philosophy by Anthony Preus Pdf

This second edition covers the history of Greek philosophy through a chronology, an introductory essay, a glossary, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1500 cross-referenced entries on important philosophers, concepts, issues, and events.

Author : Robert Wardy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415282345

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Doing Greek Philosophy by Robert Wardy Pdf

This newest addition to the Classical Foundations series is thematically unified and examines Greek philosophical tradition and how it was created and sustained. Suitable for independent study of degree and A-level students, and the general reader.

Author : Catherine Rowett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192556424

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Knowledge and Truth in Plato by Catherine Rowett Pdf

Several myths about Plato's work are decisively challenged by Catherine Rowett: the idea that Plato agreed with Socrates about the need for a definition of what we know; the idea that he set out to define justice in the Republic; the idea that knowledge is a kind of true belief, or that Plato ever thought that it might be something like that; the idea that " is propositional, and that the Theaetetus was Plato's best attempt to define knowledge as a species of belief, and that it only failed due to his incompetence. Instead Rowett argues that Plato was replacing the failed methods of Socrates, including his attempt to find a definition or single common factor, and that he replaced those methods with methods derived from geometry, including methods that involve inference from shadows to their originals (a method which Rowett calls "). As a result we should see that Plato is presenting the knowledge that is acquired as non-propositional and pictorial in nature, and that it is to be identified not with knowledge of facts nor of objects, but of types qua types-types that stand to the tokens that are used in our enquiry as original to shadow. The book includes detailed studies of the Meno, Republic and Theaetetus, and argues that the insights that Plato brings about the nature of conceptual knowledge, its importance in underpinning all other activities, and about the notion of truth as it applies to conceptual competence, are significant and should be taken seriously as a corrective to areas in which current analytic philosophy has lost its way.

Author : Aristotle,Anton-Hermann Chroust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015005158152

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Protrepticus by Aristotle,Anton-Hermann Chroust Pdf

Author : A. Hoel,I. Folkvord
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137007773

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Ernst Cassirer on Form and Technology by A. Hoel,I. Folkvord Pdf

Ernst Cassirer's thought-provoking essay Form and Technology (1930) ascribes to technology a new dignity as a genuine tool of the mind in equal company with language and art. Translated here into English it is accompanied by critical essays that explore its current relevance.

Author : A. A. Long
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521446678

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The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy by A. A. Long Pdf

A 1999 Companion to Greek philosophy, invaluable for new readers, and for specialists.

Author : Christopher P. Long
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139492096

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Aristotle on the Nature of Truth by Christopher P. Long Pdf

This book reconsiders the traditional correspondence theory of truth, which takes truth to be a matter of correctly representing objects. Drawing Heideggerian phenomenology into dialogue with American pragmatic naturalism, Christopher P. Long undertakes a rigorous reading of Aristotle that articulates the meaning of truth as a co-operative activity between human beings and the natural world that is rooted in our endeavours to do justice to the nature of things. By following a path of Aristotle's thinking that leads from our rudimentary encounters with things in perceiving through human communication to thinking, this book traces an itinerary that uncovers the nature of truth as ecological justice, and it finds the nature of justice in our attempts to articulate the truth of things.

Author : Alexandros Kampakoglou,Anna Novokhatko
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110569063

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Gaze, Vision, and Visuality in Ancient Greek Literature by Alexandros Kampakoglou,Anna Novokhatko Pdf

Visual culture, performance and spectacle lay at the heart of all aspects of ancient Greek daily routine, such as court and assembly, cult and ritual, and art and culture. Seeing was considered the most secure means of obtaining knowledge, with many citing the etymological connection between ‘seeing’ and ‘knowing’ in ancient Greek as evidence for this. Seeing was also however often associated with mere appearances, false perception and deception. Gazing and visuality in the ancient Greek world have had a central place in the scholarship for some time now, enjoying an abundance of pertinent discussions and bibliography. If this book differs from the previous publications, it is in its emphasis on diverse genres: the concepts ‘gaze’, ‘vision’ and ‘visuality’ are considered across different Greek genres and media. The recipients of ancient Greek literature (both oral and written) were encouraged to perceive the narrated scenes as spectacles and to ‘follow the gaze’ of the characters in the narrative. By setting a broad time span, the evolution of visual culture in Greece is tracked, while also addressing broader topics such as theories of vision, the prominence of visuality in specific time periods, and the position of visuality in a hierarchisation of the senses.