Knowing and Being in Ancient Philosophy (Paperback)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1:       Introduction (Daniel Bloom and Laurence Bloom)

Section I: Knowing and Being

Chapter 2:       “In What Ways Are the Souls of Human Beings Immortal According to Plato?” (Luc Brisson)           

Chapter 3:       “One and Many in Plato’s Metaphysics” (William Henry Furness Altman)

Chapter 4:       “Sensibles as me onta: the Harmony of Sophist and Timaeus” (Richard Patterson)

Chapter 5:       “Syllogisms ? In Theory and Practice” (Lenn Goodman)

Chapter 6:       “Monism, Metaphysics, and Paradox” (Owen Goldin)

Chapter 7:       “Understanding the Image of the Sun: Aristotle, Descartes, and Spinoza on                                                Imagination” (Nastassja Pugliese)

Chapter 8:       “Moving Naturally for Aristotle, Laozi and Zhuangzi” (May Sim)

Chapter 9:       “Parmenides 143d-144a and the Pebble-Arithmetical Representation of                                          Number” (Mitchell Miller)

Section II: Goodness as Knowing How to Be

Chapter 10:     “Virtue and Self-Restraint: Maimonides’ Dialogue with Aristotle in Eight                                      Chapters” (Ronna Burger)

Chapter 11:     “Socrates’ Failures and Their Implications for Moral Psychology in the Early                                Dialogues” (Miriam Byrd)

Chapter 12:     “Pleasure, Pain, Calm, and the Philosophical Life” (Richard D. Parry)

Chapter 13:     “Cephalus, Polemarchus, and Socrates on Justice” (Roslyn Weiss)

Chapter 14:     “A Reading of the First Book of the Republic: A Look to the Whole” (Chad                                   Wiener)

Chapter 15:     “Popper’s Plato Revisited” (John Rist)