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

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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