Ackrill, J. L. 1972–73. “Aristotle’s Definitions of Psuchē.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 73: 119–33. Annas, J. 1993. The Morality of Happiness. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Anton, J. P., and A. Preus, eds. 1991. Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy IV: Aristotle’s Ethics. Albany: SUNY Press.———. 1992. Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy V: Aristotle’s Ontology. Albany:…

Introduction The Peripatetic exegete Sosigenes of Rhegium published in the second century A.D. an influential work, Περὶ τῶν ἀνελιττουσῶν ( Proclus, Hypotyposis astronomicarum positionum, 4, 98.2–4), in which he presented Aristotle as an accomplished astronomer, who made an important contribution to the theory of concentric celestial spheres primarily conceived by Eudoxus of Cnidus and subsequently improved…

The Allegory of the Cave is arguably the most famous part of the Republic. Although it is clearly related to the Sun and Divided Line analogies (indeed, Socrates explicitly connects the Cave and the Sun at 7.517bc), Plato marks its special status by opening Book VII with it, emphasizing its importance typographically, so to speak…

ARISTOTLE AND LATER CLASSICAL THOUGHTAckrill, J. L. “Aristotle on Eudaimonia.” Proceedings of the British Academy 60 (1974): 339-59. Reprinted in Essays on Aristotle’s Ethics, edited by Amelie Oksenberg Rorty, 15-33. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. Annas, Julia. “Aristotle on Pleasure and Goodness.” In Essays on Aristotle’s Ethics, edited by Amelie Oksenberg Rorty, 285-99. Berkeley:…

MenoBluck, R. S. Plato’s Meno. Edited with an introduction and commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1961. Heitsch, Ernst. “Platons hypothetisches Verfahren im Menon.” Hermes 105 (1977): 257-68. Moravcsik, Julius M. E. “Learning as Recollection.” In Plato: A Collection of Critical Essays. Vol. 1, Metaphysics and Epistemology, edited by Gregory Vlastos, 53-69. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor…

You can read the book here: https://ia803406.us.archive.org/0/items/richard-kraut-the-cambridge-companion-to-plato/Richard%20Kraut%20-%20The%20Cambridge%20Companion%20to%20Plato.pdfCOMPREHENSIVE GREEK TEXTSBurnet, John. Platonis Opera. 5 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900-7. (Often called the Oxford Classical Text [O.C.T.].) There is also a twelve volume edition of Plato’s works (called the Loeb Classical Library) with Greek text and English translation (by various hands) on facing pages published in Cambridge,…

Ackrill, J. (1966), Plato on False Belief: Theaetetus 187–200, “The Monist” 50, pp. 406–418, and republished in J. Ackrill (1997), pp. 1–15. Ackrill, J. (1970), Language and Reality in Plato’s Cratylus, in A. Alberti (ed.), Realtà e ragione, Firenze, pp. 1–22, and republished in J. Ackrill (1997), pp. 16–37. Ackrill, J. (1997), Essays on Plato…

The most direct criticism of Aristotelian inspired philosophy is William of Ockham. The Stoics and the Epicureans also criticize his metaphysics. Nietzsche, Heidegger, Dewey and the Second Wittgenstein criticize the metaphysical tradition as a whole, which of course includes Aristotle. Spinoza’s argument against teleology also. On Aristotle’s essentialism and how many came to see it…

Lloyd Gerson’s Aristotle and other platonists:Aristotle versus Plato. For a long time that is the angle from which the tale has been told, in textbooks on the history of philosophy and to univer- sity students. Aristotle’s philosophy, so the story goes, was au fond in opposi- tion to Plato’s.1 But it was not always thus.…