Essays on Plato and Aristotle

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by J. L. Ackrill

Oxford University Press

Due/Published August 2001, 232 pages, paper

ISBN 0199244960

This volume collects the best of Ackrill's essays on the two greatest philosophers of antiquity. He examines a wide range of texts and topics--from ethics and logic to epistemology and metaphysics--that continue to be in the focus of debate.

CONTENTS

Anamnesis in the Phaedo: Remarks on 73c--75c
Language and Reality in Plato's Cratylus
Plato on False Belief: Theaetetus 187--200
Sumploke Eidon
Plato and the Copula: Sophist 251--259
 In Defence of Platonic Division
Aristotle's Theory of Definition: Some Questions on Posterior Analytics
Change and Aristotle's Theological Arguement
Aristotle's Distinction between Energeia and Kinesis
Aristotle's Definitions of Psuche
Aristotle on Eudaimonia
Aristotle on 'Good' and the Catagories
Aristotle on Action
 An Aristotelian Argument about Virtue