Reading ancient texts : essays in honour of Denis O'Brien. Volume I, Presocratics and Plato / edited by Suzanne Stern-Gillet and Kevin Corrigan.

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Preface; Notes on Contributors; I PRESOCRATICS; Some Remarks on Noein in Parmenides (F. Fronterotta (Lecce)); The Structure of the Eye and Its Cosmological Function in Empedocles. Reconstruction of Fragment 84 D.-K (M. Rashed (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)); Empedocles, Fragment 115.3: Can One of the Blessed Pollute his Limbs with Blood? (J.-C. Picot (Paris)); Philolaus and the Central Fire (C. Huffman (DePauw)); II PLATO; Self-Knowledge in Plato's Alcibiades (C. Gill (Exeter)); Socrates on the Definition of Figure in the Meno (T. Ebert (Erlangen))

Plato's Phaedo as Protreptic (R.K. Sprague (South Carolina))An Absurd Question: Plato, Symposium 199D (J.C.G. Strachan (Edinburgh)); Tumescence and Spiritual Seed in the Phaedrus (J.-F. Pradeau (Paris X-Nanterre & Institut Universitaire de France)); Plato against Parmenides: Sophist 236D-242B (N. Notomi (Keio)); Dialectic by Negation in Three Late Dialogues (K.M. Sayre (Notre Dame)); A Detailed Bibliography of Denis O'Brien's Works; Subject Index; Index of Names

Summary: What is the history of philosophy? Is it history or is it philosophy or is it by some strange alchemy a confluence of the two? This volume presents essays that tackles this question, by drawing on the knowledge of the surviving texts of leading ancient philosophers, from the Presocratics to Augustine, through Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus.

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What is the history of philosophy? Is it history or is it philosophy or is it by some strange alchemy a confluence of the two? This volume presents essays that tackles this question, by drawing on the knowledge of the surviving texts of leading ancient philosophers, from the Presocratics to Augustine, through Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus.

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