Jake Starts School by Michael Wright

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Jake Starts School by Michael Wright

This volume contains papers and commentaries originally presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during the 2003-04 academic year. Aristotle is treated in three colloquia. The topics range from (1) a new way of linking Aristotle's Metaphysics and De Anima through a dynamic understanding of substance to (2) an exploration of the notion of causal agency between the agent and patient. The third deals with the distinction between the real and apparent good, situating Aristotle between Socrates and the Stoics. Four colloquia concern Platonic texts. Three focus on the Republic, (1) challenging the view that Plato is an ideologue, (2) examining the principle of specialization and its anomalous exclusion of the artisans from education in virtue, and (3) showing how justice is valuable in itself and constitutive of happiness. The fourth paper takes a phenomenological excursion into the Theaetetus bringing out the interplay between Platonic drama and philosophy. As always, the comments provide the reader with initial reaction and often lively counterpoint.

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Also published as issue 1 of Volume 20 of Brill Academic Publisher's journal Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy. For more details on this journal, please click here.
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ISBN 13 9780312608842
ISBN 10 0312608845
Title Jake Starts School
Author Michael Wright
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Square Fish
Year published 2010-07-20
Number of pages 48
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