Ancient models of mind : studies in human and divine rationality / edited by Andrea Nightingale and David Sedley

Published:: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (ix, 250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Additional Creators:: Nightingale, Andrea Wilson and Sedley, D. N.

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Plato on aporia and self-knowledge / Andrea Nightingale -- Cross-examining happiness: reason and community in Plato's Socratic dialogues / Sara Ahbel-Rappe -- Inspiration, recollection, and mimẽsis in Plato's Phaedrus / Kathryn A. Morgan -- Plato's Theaetetus as an ethical dialogue / David Sedley -- Contemplating divine mind / Allan Silverman -- Aristotle and the history of skepticism / Alan Code -- Stoic selection: objects, actions, and agents / Stephen White -- Beauty and its relation to goodness in Stoicism / Richard Bett -- How dialectical was Stoic dialectic? / Luca Castagnoli -- Socrates speaks in Seneca, De vita beata 24-28 / James Ker -- Seneca's Platonism: the soul and its divine origin / Gretchen Reydams-Schils -- The status of the individual in Plotinus / Kenneth Wolfe -- A.A. Long: Publications 1963-2009.

Summary:

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.

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9780511760389 (ebook)
9780521113557 (hardback)
9781107525955 (paperback)

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