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Author Cleary, John J.

Title Studies on Plato, Aristotle, and Proclus : collected essays on ancient philosophy of John Cleary / edited by John Dillon, Brendan O'Byrne, Fran O'Rourke
Published Boston : Brill, 2013

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Series Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts, 1871-188X ; v. 15
Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts, 1871-188X ; v. 15
Contents Acknowledgments; John Cleary: A Philosophical Portrait; John Cleary: A Personal Memory; PAIDEIA; Back to the Texts Themselves; The Paideia of the Historical Protagoras; Competing Models of Paideia in Plato's Gorgias; Erotic Paideia in Plato's Symposium; Cultivating Intellectual Virtue in Plato's Philosopher-Rulers; Paideia in Plato's Laws; Socratic Influences on Aristotle's Ethical Inquiry; Akrasia and Moral Education in Aristotle; HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS; The Mathematical Cosmology of Plato's Timaeus; Abstracting Aristotle's Philosophy of Mathematics
Proclus' Philosophy of MathematicsHISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY -- A. Plato; Plato's Teleological Atomism; The Role of Theology in Plato's Laws; 'Powers that Be': The Concept of Potency in Plato and Aristotle; HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY -- B. Aristotle; On the Terminology of 'Abstraction' in Aristotle; Science, Universals, and Reality; Phainomena in Aristotle's Methodology; Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Theory of Form Numbers; Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's First Principles; Should One Pray for Aristotle's Best Polis?; Emending Aristotle's Division of Theoretical Sciences
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY -- C. Proclus and LaterProclus' Elaborate Defence of Platonic Ideas; Proclus as a Reader of Plato's Timaeus; The Rationality of the Real: Proclus and Hegel; Plato's Philebus as a Gadamerian Conversation?; Bibliographies; Index of Modern Authors
Summary 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
Notes Title from PDF title page (viewed on Feb. 20, 2013)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Plato
Aristotle
Proclus, approximately 410-485
SUBJECT Aristotle fast
Plato fast
Proclus, approximately 410-485 fast
Subject Philosophy, Ancient.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
Philosophy, Ancient
Form Electronic book
Author Dillon, John M.
O'Byrne, Brendan, Dr.
O'Rourke, Fran.
Cleary, John J. Paideia of historical Protagoras
ISBN 9789004247840
900424784X
9789004233232
9004233237