Presocratics and Plato : festschrift at Delphi in honor of Charles Kahn : papers presented at the festschrift symposium in honor of Charles Kahn organized by the Hyele Institute for Comparative Studies European Cultural Center of Delphi, June 3rd-7th, 200

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PRESOCRATICS AND PLATO
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PRESOCRATICS AND PLATO:
Festschrift at Delphi
in Honor of Charles Kahn
Papers presented at the
Festschrift Symposium in Honor of Charles Kahn
Organized by the HYELE Institute for Comparative Studies
European Cultural Center of Delphi
June 3rd–7th, 2009
Delphi, Greece
Edited by
RichaRd PatteRson, Vassilis KaRasmanis,
and aRnold heRmann
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t Delphi in honor of Charles Kahn
Presocratics and Plato : festschrift a
: papers presented at the festschrift symposium in honor of Charles Kahn
organized by the Hyele Institute for Comparative Studies European Cultural
Center of Delphi, June 3rd/7th, 2009, Delphi, Greece / edited by Richard
Patterson, Vassilis Karasmanis, and Arnold Hermann.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and indexes.
ISBN 978-1-930972-75-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-930972-76-6
(e-book)
1. Plato--Congresses. 2. Pre-Socratic philosophers--Congresses. I. Kahn,
Charles H. II. Patterson, Richard, 1946- III. Karasmanis, V. (Vassilis) IV.
Hermann, Arnold.
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Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Richard Patterson
Preface: Thoughts for Delphi xiii
Charles Kahn
Charles Kahn: A Chronological Bibliography xix
I. The PresocraTIcs
1. Heraclitus on the Sun 3
Enrique Hülsz Piccone
2. “The Light of Day by Night”: nukti phaos,

Said of the Moon in Parmenides B14 25
Alexander P. D. Mourelatos
3. Empedocles at Panopolis and Delphi 59
Diskin Clay
4. The Cosmogonic Moment in the Derveni Papyrus 79
Richard McKirahan
5. Will the Real Critias Please Stand Up? 111
John M. Dillon
6. Aristoxenus’ Account of Pythagoras 125
Carl A. Huffman
II. PlaTo: sTudIes In IndIvIdual dIalogues
7. Plato’s Theory of Change at Phaedo 70–71 147
David Sedley
8. Virtue and Law in the Republic 165
Julia Annas
9. Dialectic and the Second Part of Plato’s Parmenides 183
Vassilis Karasmanis
10. Plato’s Eleatic Challenge and the Problem
of Self-predication in the Parmenides 205
Arnold Hermann
11. Negation and Not-Being: Dark Matter in the Sophist 233
Lesley Brown
255
12. Fifth-Century Bugbears in the Timaeus
Sarah Broadie
13. False Pleasures: Philebus 36c–40e 291
Satoshi Ogihara
14. Pleasure, Pain, and “Anticipation” in Plato’s Laws,
Book I 311
Susan Sauvé Meyer
15. Socrates in Plato’s Laws 329
Christopher J. Rowe
III. Themes In PlaTo
16. Slavery as a Philosophical Metaphor in Plato
and Xenophon 351
Anthony A. Long
17. Forms, Functions, and Structure in Plato 367
Dorothea Frede
18. From Being an Image to Being What-Is-Not 391
Paul Kalligas
19. The Method of Hypothesis and Its Connection
to the Collection and Division Strategies 411
Tomás Calvo
20. Word and Image in Plato 429
Richard Patterson
Iv. PlaTo and Beyond
21. Aristotle on the Power of Perception: Awareness,
459
Self-Awareness and the Awareness of Others
Aryeh Kosman
22. Sympathy, Awareness, and Belonging to Oneself
in Plotinus 491
D. M. Hutchinson
23. Moral Conscience: Contributions to the Idea
in Plato and Platonism 511
Richard Sorabji
About the Contributors 531
Bibliography 539
Index Locorum 565
General Index 583
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Foreword
Richard Patterson
A Festschrift celebrating the work of Charles Kahn might well
include an enormous diversity of papers, on topics reaching far
beyond the Pre-Socratics and Plato. Nonetheless it is for his work on
the Pre-Socratics and Plato that Charles is best known. Indeed, it is
difficult to think of anyone else who has achieved such distinction
in both of these daunting areas of philosophical scholarship. For
this reason, and also to lend coherence to the collection, the papers
in this volume focus for the most part on these two topics.
Charles Kahn is a native of New Iberia, Louisiana, “Queen
City of the Bayou Teche” (distinguished also as the birthplace of
Tobasco sauce). At age seven, following the death of his father,
Charles entered his Wanderjahre, moving from New Iberia to Los
Angeles, then to Tulsa and, at the age of sixteen, to the University of
Chicago, in the archonship of John Maynard Hutchins. (Hutchins
was convinced that American high school was largely a waste of
time, and that bright teenagers would be just as well off without it.)
After graduation, Charles remained at the University of Chicago for
graduate work and an MA from the Committee on Social Thought.
Having by this time developed a primary interest in philosophy, and
in Ancient Greek philosophy in particular, and being convinced that
scholarship in this area required serious study of Greek and Latin,
Charles spent two years at the Sorbonne, practicing the traditional
“explication de texte,” which he would in due time impart to graduate
students at the University of Pennsylvania. He then returned to
the United States to complete a Doctorate in Classics at Columbia
University (1958). His dissertation became Anaximander and the
Origins of Greek Cosmology (Columbia University Press, 1982;
reprinted by Hackett, 1994), now a “classic” in its own right. Degree
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Richard Patterson
in hand, he joined the faculty in Classics at Columbia, where he
taught until 1965.
It was then that Philosophy called—from Philadelphia, and in
the voice of the distinguished and just-retiring Plato scholar, Glenn
Morrow, who persuaded Charles to join the Philosophy Department
at the University of Pennsylvania. There Charles has taught for the
last 47 years, serving as Chair from 1975–78, and contributing
energetically to related programs such as the Graduate Group in
Classical Studies at Penn, the American School of Classical Studies
in Athens, where he served as Visiting Professor in 1974–75 and as
a member of the managing committee from 1964–2000, and the
Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, serving as President from
1976–78. From a still broader perspective, Charles has long been a
mainstay of the international community of Platonists, developing
scholarly ties and warm friendships around the globe (along with a
knowledge of where the best food and drink are to be found, from
Athens to Tokyo), and serving as North American Representative
of the International Plato Society from 1992–95. These decades
also saw an accumulation of honors, including research grants from
the American Council of Learned Societies (63/64 and 84/85), the
National Endowment for the Humanities (1974/75 and 1990/91),
and the Guggenheim Foundation (1979/80). In 2000 Charles was
elected Fellow of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Meanwhile work on his second book had begun not long after
Charles’s arrival at Penn. As it turned out, the book was quite
ambitious in scope—a linguistic and philosophical study of questions
concerning being and the verb “to be” that are fundamental to the
background, and often the foreground, of Greek philosophy. The
work was scheduled to appear in Reidel’s series of monographs, The
Foundations of Language, most volumes of which had been rather
narrowly focused and quite slender. By contrast, The Verb “Be” in
Ancient Greek grew into a magisterial work tracing the evidence
for and history of the main uses of the verb from Homer on, in
a considerably more nuanced manner than had been customary
among students of Greek philosophy. In the process, Charles put
on the map important uses of “to be” that philosophers and classi-
cists—as opposed to the linguists Charles was studying at the
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