Ancient Models of Mind : Studies in Human and Divine Rationality

262 Pages·2010·1.868 MB·English

by  Andrea Wilson Nightingale, David Sedley

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ANCIENT MODELS OF MIND
How does god think? How, ideally, does a human mind function?
Mustagapremainbetweenthesetwoparadigmsofrationality?Such
questionsexercisedthegreatestancientphilosophers,includingthose
featuredinthisbook:Socrates,Plato,Aristotle,theStoicsandPloti-
nus.Thisvolumeencompassesaseriesofstudiesbyleadingscholars,
revisiting key moments of ancient philosophy and highlighting the
themeofhumananddivinerationalityinbothmoralandcognitive
psychology.ItisatributetoProfessorA.A.Long,andreflectsmultiple
themesofhisownwork.
andrea nightingale is Professor of Classics and Comparative
LiteratureatStanfordUniversity.SheistheauthorofGenresinDia-
logue:PlatoandtheConstructofPhilosophy(),SpectaclesofTruth
inClassicalGreekPhilosophy:TheoriainitsCulturalContext(),
and“OnceoutofNature”:AugustineonTimeandtheBody(forthcom-
ing). She has won a Guggenheim Fellowship, an ACLS Fellowship,
andafellowshipattheStanfordHumanitiesCenter.Shehasbeena
StanfordFellow(–)andispresentlyservingasaHarvardSenior
FellowoftheHellenicCenter(–).
david sedley is Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at
the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Fellow of Christ’s
College. He is the author of The Hellenistic Philosophers (, with
A.A.Long),LucretiusandtheTransformationofGreekWisdom(),
Plato’sCratylus(),TheMidwifeofPlatonism:TextandSubtextin
Plato’sTheaetetus(),andCreationismanditsCriticsinAntiquity
(),basedonhisSatherLectures.HeeditedOxfordStudies
inAncientPhilosophyfromto.HeisaFellowoftheBritish
Academy,andaForeignHonoraryMemberoftheAmericanAcademy
ofArtsandSciences.

ANCIENT MODELS OF MIND
Studies in Human and Divine Rationality
edited by
ANDREA NIGHTINGALE
AND
DAVID SEDLEY
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Contents
Listofcontributors pageix
Introduction 
AndreaNightingaleandDavidSedley
. Platoonaporiaandself-knowledge 
AndreaNightingale
. Cross-examininghappiness:reasonandcommunityinPlato’s
Socraticdialogues 
SaraAhbel-Rappe
. Inspiration,recollection,andmim¯esisinPlato’sPhaedrus 
KathrynA.Morgan
. Plato’sTheaetetusasanethicaldialogue 
DavidSedley
. Contemplatingdivinemind 
AllanSilverman
. Aristotleandthehistoryofskepticism 
AlanCode
. Stoicselection:objects,actions,andagents 
StephenWhite
. BeautyanditsrelationtogoodnessinStoicism 
RichardBett
. HowdialecticalwasStoicdialectic? 
LucaCastagnoli
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viii Contents
. SocratesspeaksinSeneca,Devitabeata– 
JamesKer
. Seneca’sPlatonism:thesoulanditsdivineorigin 
GretchenReydams-Schils
. ThestatusoftheindividualinPlotinus 
KennethWolfe
A.A.Long:publications1963–2009 
Bibliography 
Index 