Thinking, knowing, acting : : epistemology and ethics in Plato and ancient Platonism / / edited by Mauro Bonazzi, Angela Ulacco, Filippo Forcignanò.

• TeilnehmendeR: Bonazzi, Mauro, 1973-; Ulacco, Angela,; Forcignanò, Filippo,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Plato Studies Series 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright Page --; Introduction --; Acting and Knowing before Plato: on Solon’s Theodicy /; Plato and the ‘Performative Contradiction’ /; Self-knowledge and Politics in the Alcibiades i /; Plato’s Journey through the Conflict: Knowledge, Action and καιρός in the Syracusan Experience /; Learning from the Gods: Episteme and Politics in Plato’s Menexenus /; Der beste Logos als Handlungskriterium in Platons Kriton /; Das δαιμόνιον im Theages und der Weg zur Weisheit /; The Theaetetus Digression: an Ethical Interlude in an Epistemological Dialogue? /; Kompsoi Logoi /; Aristotle’s Method of Inquiry in Eudemian Ethics 1 and 2 /; Is the Phronimos Shame-Less? /; The telos of Assimilation to God and the Conflict between theoria and praxis in Plato and the Middle Platonists /; Wissen und Meinung im anonymen Theaitetoskommentar /; The Theory of Mixtures and Its Ethical Implications: Role and Responsibility of the Galenic Physician /; Selbstbewegung und Kreisbewegung. Autokinēsis in Plotin anhand der Enn. 6, 9, 8 [9] /; Back Matter --; Index of Modern Authors.
• ISBN: 9004398996
• ISSN: 2452-2945
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Mauro Bonazzi, Angela Ulacco, Filippo Forcignanò.

The volume Thinking, Knowing, Acting: Epistemology and Ethics in Plato and Ancient Platonism aims to offer a fresh perspective on the correlation between epistemology and ethics, a topic of central importance in the Platonic tradition which has not yet received the attention it deserves. The first part deals with the social, juridical premises of Plato’s philosophy, with particular regard to the relation between science and practical reason. The second part investigates the reception and development of these problems in Aristotle and the Platonic tradition. Other papers, on Solon and Galen, show that the conflict between knowledge and political action was also a central topic for the other Greek thinkers and contribute by contrast to a better evaluation of the originality of Platonism.