Ancient Models of Mind
Subtitle: Studies in Human and Divine Rationality
Contributors: Sedley, David
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780511900365
Subjects: Philosophy
Description: Leading scholars explore the theme of human and divine rationality in ancient cognitive and moral psychology.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1 Plato on aporia and self-knowledge; Chapter 2 Cross-examining happiness: Reason and community in Plato's Socratic dialogues; Chapter 3 Inspiration, recollection, and mimsis in Plato's Phaedrus; Chapter 4 Plato's Theaetetus as an ethical dialogue; Chapter 5 Contemplating divine mind; Chapter 6 Aristotle and the history of skepticism; Chapter 7 Stoic selection: Objects, actions, and agents; Chapter 8 Beauty and its relation to goodness in Stoicism; Chapter 9 How dialectical was Stoic dialectic?; title: Chapter 10 Socrates speaks in Seneca, De vita beata 24-28Chapter 11 Seneca's Platonism: The soul and its divine origin; Chapter 12 The status of the individual in Plotinus; A.A. Long: publications 1963-2009; Bibliography; Index.