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Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception / ed. by Melina G. Mouzala.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Topics in Ancient Philosophy / Themen der antiken Philosophie ; 10Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 525 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110744064
  • 9783110744224
  • 9783110744149
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Ancient Greek Dialectic in Classical Antiquity -- Dialectic as True Rhetoric in Plato’s Gorgias -- Socrates’ “Flight into the Logoi”: A Non-Standard Interpretation of the Founding Document of Plato’s Dialectic -- Friendly Fire: Dialectic Struggles between the Megarians and Plato -- Eros on Stage: Dialogue and Dialectic in the Phaedrus -- Dialectic and the Activity of the Soul when Reaching for Being and the Good in Plato’s Theaetetus 184b3–186e12 -- Pursuing Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Sophist. The Communion of the Sophistic and Socratic Dialectic in the Sixth Definition of the Sophist: A Reading Based on Proclus’ Interpretation of Dialectic in the Sophist -- On Plato’s Late Dialectic: The Methods of Collection and Division -- Sophistical Demonstrations: A Class of Arguments Entangled with False Peirastic and Pseudographemata -- Part II: Reception, Interpretation, Development and Influence of Ancient Greek Dialectic in Late Antiquity and Byzantium -- The Services of Dialectic: Dialectic as an Instrument for Metaphysics in Alexander of Aphrodisias -- Aporiai with Multiple Solutions in Alexander of Aphrodisias -- Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Principle of Non-Contradiction: The Argument “from Signification” -- Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception in Origen of Alexandria: From Plato to Christ-Logos -- Exegesis as Philosophy: Notes on Aristotelian Methods in Neoplatonic Commentary -- Syrianus and the Dialectical Cosmos -- Proclus on Plato’s Dialectic: Argument by Performance -- Elenchus and Syllogistic in Olympiodorus of Alexandria -- Simplicius and Aristotle’s Dialectic -- Michael Psellos on Dialectic and Allegory -- Index Locorum -- Index Nominum -- Index Rerum -- Notes on the Contributors
Summary: The volume focusses on ancient Greek dialectic and its impact on later philosophical thought, up to Byzantium. The contributions are written by distinguished scholars in their respective fields of study and shed light on the relation of ancient Greek dialectic to various aspects of human life and soul, to self-knowledge and self-consciousness, to science, rhetoric, and political theory.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Ancient Greek Dialectic in Classical Antiquity -- Dialectic as True Rhetoric in Plato’s Gorgias -- Socrates’ “Flight into the Logoi”: A Non-Standard Interpretation of the Founding Document of Plato’s Dialectic -- Friendly Fire: Dialectic Struggles between the Megarians and Plato -- Eros on Stage: Dialogue and Dialectic in the Phaedrus -- Dialectic and the Activity of the Soul when Reaching for Being and the Good in Plato’s Theaetetus 184b3–186e12 -- Pursuing Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Sophist. The Communion of the Sophistic and Socratic Dialectic in the Sixth Definition of the Sophist: A Reading Based on Proclus’ Interpretation of Dialectic in the Sophist -- On Plato’s Late Dialectic: The Methods of Collection and Division -- Sophistical Demonstrations: A Class of Arguments Entangled with False Peirastic and Pseudographemata -- Part II: Reception, Interpretation, Development and Influence of Ancient Greek Dialectic in Late Antiquity and Byzantium -- The Services of Dialectic: Dialectic as an Instrument for Metaphysics in Alexander of Aphrodisias -- Aporiai with Multiple Solutions in Alexander of Aphrodisias -- Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Principle of Non-Contradiction: The Argument “from Signification” -- Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception in Origen of Alexandria: From Plato to Christ-Logos -- Exegesis as Philosophy: Notes on Aristotelian Methods in Neoplatonic Commentary -- Syrianus and the Dialectical Cosmos -- Proclus on Plato’s Dialectic: Argument by Performance -- Elenchus and Syllogistic in Olympiodorus of Alexandria -- Simplicius and Aristotle’s Dialectic -- Michael Psellos on Dialectic and Allegory -- Index Locorum -- Index Nominum -- Index Rerum -- Notes on the Contributors

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The volume focusses on ancient Greek dialectic and its impact on later philosophical thought, up to Byzantium. The contributions are written by distinguished scholars in their respective fields of study and shed light on the relation of ancient Greek dialectic to various aspects of human life and soul, to self-knowledge and self-consciousness, to science, rhetoric, and political theory.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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