Remembering Socrates Philosophical Essays [Oxford U.P.] 2006.pdf

Remembering Socrates

Philosophical Essays

Edited by

LINDSAY JUDSON

and

VASSILIS KARASMANIS

CLARENDON PRESS

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Contents

Notes on Contributors and Editors

vii

Introduction

1. Socrates’ Dialectic in Xenophon’s Memorabilia

Carlo Natali

2. If you Know What is Best, you Do it: Socratic Intellectualism

in Xenophon and Plato

Gerhard Seel

3. Socrates and Hedonism

Charles H. Kahn

4. Socrates and Euthyphro: The Argument and its Revival

Terence Irwin

5. Did Socrates Agree to Obey the Laws of Athens?

Lesley Brown

6. Aporia and Searching in the Early Plato

Vasilis Politis

7. Types of De

nition in the Meno

110

David Charles

8. De

nition in Plato’s Meno

129

Vassilis Karasmanis

9. Sharing a Property

142

Theodore Scaltsas

10. Socrates the Sophist

157

C. C. W. Taylor

11. Arcesilaus: Socratic and Sceptic

169

John M. Cooper

12. The Early Christian Reception of Socrates

188

Michael Frede

Index

203

Notes on the Contributors and Editors

Lesley Brown is Centenary Fellow in Philosophy at Somerville College, Oxford,

and the author of numerous articles and book chapters on Plato and Aristotle.

David Charles is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Oriel College, Oxford. He is

the author of Aristotle’s Philosophy of Action (London, 1984), Aristotle on

Meaning and Essence (Oxford, 2000), and a variety of articles on topics in

ancient and contemporary philosophy.

John M. Cooper is Stuart Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program

in Classical Philosophy at Princeton University. His books include Reason and

Human Good in Aristotle (Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1975), Seneca:

Moral and Political Essays (co-edited with J. F. Procop ´ , Cambridge, 1995),

Plato: Complete Works (edited with D.S. Hutchinson, Indianapolis and

Cambridge, 1997), Reason and Emotion: Essays on Ancient Moral Psychology

and Ethical Theory (Princeton, 1999), and Knowledge, Nature, and the Good:

Essays on Ancient Philosophy (Princeton, 2004).

Michael Frede is Emeritus Professor of the History of Philosophy, Oxford

University. His publications include Galen: Three Treatises on the Nature of

Science (with Richard Walzer, Indianapolis, 1985), Essays in Ancient Philosophy

(Oxford, 1987), Aristoteles Metaphysik Z (with G¨nther Patzig, Munich,

1988), and The Original Sceptics: A Controversy (with Myles Burnyeat, In-

dianapolis and Cambridge, 1997).

Terence Irwin is Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Humane Letters,

Cornell University. His books include Aristotle’s First Principles (Oxford,

1988), Classical Thought (Oxford, 1989), Plato’s Ethics (Oxford, 1995), and

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (2nd edn, Indianapolis and Cambridge, 1999).

Lindsay Judson is Official Student and Tutor in Philosophy, Christ Church,

Oxford. He is the author of a variety of articles on ancient philosophy, and is

the Editor of the Clarendon Aristotle Series and Co-editor (with Julia Annas) of

Oxford Aristotle Studies.

Charles H. Kahn is Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania. He is

the author of Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology (New York,

1960), The Art and Thought of Heraclitus (Cambridge, 1979), Plato and the

Socratic Dialogue (Cambridge, 1996), and Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans

(Indianapolis and Cambridge, 2001), The Verb ‘Be’ in Ancient Greek (2nd edn,

Indianapolis and Cambridge, 2002).

Vassilis Karasmanis is Professor of Philosophy, Technical University of Athens.

He is the author of numerous articles on ancient philosophy and ancient

mathematics. He was Director of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi

from 1994 to 2004.

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