Studies in Greek Philosophy, Volume I : : The Presocratics / / Gregory Vlastos; ed. by Daniel W. Graham.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Vlastos, Gregory,
• HerausgeberIn: Graham, Daniel W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.) :; 4 tables

Gregory Vlastos (1907-1991) was one of the twentieth century's most influential scholars of ancient philosophy. Over a span of more than fifty years, he published essays and book reviews that established his place as a leading authority on early Greek philosophy. The two volumes that comprise Studies in Greek Philosophy include nearly forty contributions by this acknowledged master of the philosophical essay. Many of these pieces are now considered to be classics in the field. Perhaps more than any other modern scholar, Gregory Vlastos was responsible for raising standards of research, analysis, and exposition in classical philosophy to new levels of excellence. His essays have served as paradigms of scholarship for several generations. Available for the first time in a comprehensive collection, these contributions reveal the author's ability to combine the skills of a philosopher, philologist, and historian of ideas in addressing some of the most difficult problems of ancient philosophy. Volume I collects Vlastos's essays on Presocratic philosophy. Wide-ranging concept studies link Greek science, religion, and politics with philosophy. Individual studies illuminate the thought of major philosophers such as Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, and Democritus. A magisterial series of studies on Zeno of Elea reveals the author's power in source criticism and logical analysis. Volume II contains essays on the thought of Socrates, Plato, and later thinkers and essays dealing with ethical, social, and political issues as well as metaphysics, science, and the foundations of mathematics.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- NOTE ON TEXTUAL CONVENTIONS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- PART ONE: CONCEPT STUDIES -- 1. Theology and Philosophy in Early Greek Thought -- 2. Solonian Justice -- 3. Equality and Justice in Early Greek Cosmologies -- 4. Isonomia -- 5. Cornford's Principium Sapientiae -- PART TWO: HERACLITUS -- 6. On Heraclitus -- PART THREE: THE ELEATICS -- 7. Parmenides' Theory of Knowledge -- 8. Frankel's Wege und Formen fruhgnechischen Denkens -- 9. Raven's Pythagoreans and Eleatics -- 10. Zeno's Race Course: With an Appendix on the Achilles -- 11. A Note on Zeno's Arrow -- 12. A Zenonian Argument Against Plurality -- 13. Zeno of Elea -- 14. Plato's Testimony Concerning Zeno of Elea -- PART FOUR: THE PLURALISTS -- 15. The Physical Theory of Anaxagoras -- 16. Ethics and Physics in Democritus -- 17. On the Pre-History in Diodorus -- INDEX LOCORUM -- GENERAL INDEX