Thinking, knowing, acting : : epistemology and ethics in Plato and ancient Platonism / / edited by Mauro Bonazzi, Angela Ulacco, Filippo Forcignanò.

• TeilnehmendeR: Bonazzi, Mauro, 1973-; Ulacco, Angela,; Forcignanò, Filippo,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Plato Studies Series 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 pages).

The volume Thinking, Knowing, Acting: Epistemology and Ethics in Plato and Ancient Platonism aims to offer a fresh perspective on the correlation between epistemology and ethics, a topic of central importance in the Platonic tradition which has not yet received the attention it deserves. The first part deals with the social, juridical premises of Plato’s philosophy, with particular regard to the relation between science and practical reason. The second part investigates the reception and development of these problems in Aristotle and the Platonic tradition. Other papers, on Solon and Galen, show that the conflict between knowledge and political action was also a central topic for the other Greek thinkers and contribute by contrast to a better evaluation of the originality of Platonism.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Introduction -- Acting and Knowing before Plato: on Solon’s Theodicy / Mauro Bonazzi -- Plato and the ‘Performative Contradiction’ / Franco Trabattoni -- Self-knowledge and Politics in the Alcibiades i / Albert Joosse -- Plato’s Journey through the Conflict: Knowledge, Action and καιρός in the Syracusan Experience / Filippo Forcignanò -- Learning from the Gods: Episteme and Politics in Plato’s Menexenus / Emilia Cucinotta -- Der beste Logos als Handlungskriterium in Platons Kriton / Sabrina Mertler -- Das δαιμόνιον im Theages und der Weg zur Weisheit / Giusy Maria Margagliotta -- The Theaetetus Digression: an Ethical Interlude in an Epistemological Dialogue? / Emanuele Maffi -- Kompsoi Logoi / Mariapaola Bergomi -- Aristotle’s Method of Inquiry in Eudemian Ethics 1 and 2 / Andrea Falcon -- Is the Phronimos Shame-Less? / Marilù Papandreou -- The telos of Assimilation to God and the Conflict between theoria and praxis in Plato and the Middle Platonists / Paolo Torri -- Wissen und Meinung im anonymen Theaitetoskommentar / Bernd Hene -- The Theory of Mixtures and Its Ethical Implications: Role and Responsibility of the Galenic Physician / Maria Luisa Garofalo -- Selbstbewegung und Kreisbewegung. Autokinēsis in Plotin anhand der Enn. 6, 9, 8 [9] / Giovanni Panno -- Back Matter -- Index of Modern Authors.