Socratic, Platonic and Aristotelian Studies: Essays in Honor of Gerasimos Santas

440 Pages·2011·3.68 MB·English

by  Michael Ferejohn (auth.)

Socratic, Platonic and Aristotelian Studies:
Essays in Honor of Gerasimos Santas
PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES SERIES
VOLUME117
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Contents
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
AbbreviationsofPlato’sWorks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
AbbreviationsofAristotle’sWorks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
AbouttheAuthors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii
1 TheDiagnosticFunctionofSocraticDefinitions . . . . . . . . . . . 1
MichaelFerejohn
2 DefinitionandElenchus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
NicholasWhite
3 ReasonsandtheProblemoftheSocraticElenchos . . . . . . . . . 35
AlejandroSantana
4 Santas,Socrates,andInduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
MarkL.McPherran
5 SocratesMythologikos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
FredD.Miller
6 IsthePrudentialParadoxintheMeno? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
ThomasC.BrickhouseandNicholasD.Smith
7 Gerasimos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
TerryPenner
8 BeyondDeRe:TowardaDominanceTheoryofDesire
Attribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
NaomiReshotko
9 TheGoodandtheJustinPlato’sGorgias. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
ChristopherRowe
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10 Socrates,WisdomandPedagogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
GeorgeRudebusch
11 TheRepublicasPhilosophicalDrama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
JohnP.Anton
12 Function,AbilityandDesireinPlato’sRepublic . . . . . . . . . . . 205
AntonisCoumoundourosandRonaldPolansky
13 Knowledge,Virtue,andMethodinRepublic471c–502c . . . . . . . 219
HughH.Benson
14 ReasoningAboutJusticeinPlato’sRepublic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
AnthonyW.Price
15 PlatoonJustice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
DavidKeyt
16 Plato on the Ideal of Justice and Human Happiness:
ReturntotheCave(Republic519e–521b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
YujiKurihara
17 Surpassing in Dignity and Power: The Metaphysics
ofGoodnessinPlato’sRepublic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
ChristopherShields
18 CommentsonPlato’sCausalExplanation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
D.Z.Andriopoulos
19 DesiresandFacultiesinPlatoandAristotle . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
DeborahK.W.Modrak
20 IsAristotle’sFunctionArgumentFallacious? . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
GavinLawrence
21 AristotleonDiscoveringandDesiringtheRealGood . . . . . . . . 367
MarianaAnagnostopoulos
22 Continuity and Incommensurability in Ancient Greek
PhilosophyandMathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
VassilisKarasmanis
TheWorksofGerasimosSantas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
Acknowledgements
Editing this volume has been both a pleasure and a learning experience. It gave
metheopportunitytoreconnectwithsomecolleaguesIhaveknownforyearsand
to become acquainted with additional ones, all of whom share an admiration for
ProfessorGerasimos(Jerry)Santas’workonancientGreekphilosophy.Interacting
withthemanddealingwitheditorialmattersinconnectionwiththeircontributions
proved,contrarytoacceptedwisdom,anenjoyableundertaking.Atthesametime,
while working on the volume I learned much from the essays within it about the
thought of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. All the authors make important contri-
butions to the study of ancient philosophy, and some of them make considerable
advances in the scholarly debates on the thought of these three seminal thinkers.
I want to thank all the authors for accepting the invitation to participate in the
project, for their cooperation throughout the editorial process and, above all, for
theircontributions.Iamalsogratefultothemfortheirperseverance.Thefirststeps
toward publishing these essays in honor of Professor Santas started in 2006, but
for reasons that none could have foreseen or even imagined at that time, it has
taken years to finish the project. I appreciate their support in keeping the project
alive. (Earlier versions of the essays in this volume appeared in two issues of
PhilosophicalInquiry,Vol.XXX,No.3–4,2008andVol.XXXI,No.1–2,2009.)
Special thanks are owed to a number of people who have been most helpful
withthe publication of thisvolume: the editor of Springer’sPhilosophical Studies
Series,ProfessorStephenHetherington,forhisencouragementanddecisiontocon-
sider the volume for the series; Professor Nicholas D. Smith for all his efforts
throughout the process of finding a suitable publisher for the volume; an anony-
mousrefereeforanexhaustivereviewofthemanuscript;Ms.IngridvanLaarhoven
andMs.HendrikjeTuerlingsatSpringerforalltheirassistanceinthepublicationof
the volume; Ms. Karen Jessie for guiding the production of the volume and Craig
Aguileforassistingwiththeproofsandindex.Ithasbeenaspecialpleasuretowork
withallofthem.
Lastly,IwouldliketothankJerrySantasforhisinvaluableassistancethroughout
theplanningandpreparationofthevolume,butmostofallforkeepingthefaithand
helpingtobringtheprojecttoahappyconclusion.
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