Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception

by: Mouzala, M.G.

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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.
Author / Editor information
Melina G. Mouzala, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.

Frontmatter
Table of Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

PART I: ANCIENT GREEK DIALECTIC IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
Dialectic as True Rhetoric in Plato?s Gorgias

François Renaud
Socrates? “Flight into the Logoi”: A Non-Standard Interpretation of the Founding Document of Plato?s Dialectic

Rafael Ferber
Friendly Fire: Dialectic Struggles between the Megarians and Plato

Claudia Marsico
Eros on Stage: Dialogue and Dialectic in the Phaedrus

Beatriz Bossi
Dialectic and the Activity of the Soul when Reaching for Being and the Good in Plato?s Theaetetus 184b3–186e12

Kristian Larsen
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

Melina G. Mouzala
On Plato?s Late Dialectic: The Methods of Collection and Division

Anna Pavani
Sophistical Demonstrations: A Class of Arguments Entangled with False Peirastic and Pseudographemata

Lucas Angioni
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

Gweltaz Guyomarc?h
Aporiai with Multiple Solutions in Alexander of Aphrodisias

Silvia Fazzο
Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Principle of Non-Contradiction: The Argument “from Signification”

Inna Kupreeva
Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception in Origen of Alexandria: From Plato to Christ-Logos

Ilaria L.E. Ramelli
Exegesis as Philosophy: Notes on Aristotelian Methods in Neoplatonic Commentary

Michael Griffin
Syrianus and the Dialectical Cosmos

Sarah Klitenic Wear
Proclus on Plato?s Dialectic: Argument by Performance

Dirk Baltzly
Elenchus and Syllogistic in Olympiodorus of Alexandria

Harold Tarrant
Simplicius and Aristotle?s Dialectic

Han Baltussen

Graeme Miles
Index Locorum

Index Nominum

Index Rerum

Notes on the Contributors

Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception

by: Mouzala, M.G.

• ISBN-13: 9783110744064 / 978-3-11-074406-4
• ISBN-03: 3110744066 / 3-11-074406-6
• Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2023

Price: 158,95 EURO

1 copy in stock