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Author Cleary, John J.

Title Studies on Plato, Aristotle, and Proclus : collected essays on ancient philosophy of John Cleary / edited by John Dillon, Brendan O'Byrne, Fran O'Rourke.

Publication Info. Boston : Brill, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts, 1871-188X ; v. 15
Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts, 1871-188X ; v. 15.
Note Title from PDF title page (viewed on Feb. 20, 2013).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Acknowledgments; John Cleary: A Philosophical Portrait; John Cleary: A Personal Memory; PAIDEIA; Back to the Texts Themselves; The Paideia of the Historical Protagoras; Competing Models of Paideia in Plato's Gorgias; Erotic Paideia in Plato's Symposium; Cultivating Intellectual Virtue in Plato's Philosopher-Rulers; Paideia in Plato's Laws; Socratic Influences on Aristotle's Ethical Inquiry; Akrasia and Moral Education in Aristotle; HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS; The Mathematical Cosmology of Plato's Timaeus; Abstracting Aristotle's Philosophy of Mathematics.
Proclus' Philosophy of MathematicsHISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY -- A. Plato; Plato's Teleological Atomism; The Role of Theology in Plato's Laws; 'Powers that Be': The Concept of Potency in Plato and Aristotle; HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY -- B. Aristotle; On the Terminology of 'Abstraction' in Aristotle; Science, Universals, and Reality; Phainomena in Aristotle's Methodology; Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Theory of Form Numbers; Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's First Principles; Should One Pray for Aristotle's Best Polis?; Emending Aristotle's Division of Theoretical Sciences.
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY -- C. Proclus and LaterProclus' Elaborate Defence of Platonic Ideas; Proclus as a Reader of Plato's Timaeus; The Rationality of the Real: Proclus and Hegel; Plato's Philebus as a Gadamerian Conversation?; Bibliographies; Index of Modern Authors.
Summary John J. Cleary (1949-2009) was an internationally recognised authority in ancient Greek philosophy. This volume of penetrating studies of Plato, Aristotle, and Proclus, philosophy of mathematics, and ancient theories of education, display Cleary's range of expertise and originality of approach.
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Subject Plato.
Plato.
Aristotle.
Aristotle.
Proclus, approximately 410-485.
Proclus, approximately 410-485.
Proclus, approximately 410-485.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Dillon, John M.
O'Byrne, Brendan, Dr.
O'Rourke, Fran.
Cleary, John J. Paideia of historical Protagoras.
Other Form: Print version: Cleary, John J. Studies on Plato, Aristotle and Proclus : The Collected Essays on Ancient Philosophy of John Cleary. Leiden : BRILL, ©2013 9789004233232
ISBN 9789004247840 (electronic book)
900424784X (electronic book)
9789004233232 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9004233237 (hardback ; alkaline paper)