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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
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Opposites and Explanations in Heraclitus
1. Introduction
2. Preliminaries on explanation and opposites
3. Opposites in Heraclitus’ predecessors
4. Opposites as explananda
5. Against a metaphysical foundation
6. Metaphysical interdependence
7. Conclusion: Opposites and explanation
Bibliography
Evaluative Illusion in Plato’s Protagoras
1. Introduction
2. Akrasia in the Protagoras
3. The puzzle of temporal distortion
4. The non-rationalinterpretation
5. What are appearances?
6. What is the power of appearance?
7. Why do proximate pleasures appear greater?
8. Conclusion
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That Difference Is Different from Being: Sophist 255 c 9–e 2
1. Introduction
2. Text, translation, and linguistic concerns
3. ‘Participated in both forms’ at 255 d 4 and the ὥσπερ τὸ ὄν clause
4. Reading the argument with ὥσπερ τὸ ὄν adjoined to the apodosis
5. Conclusion
Bibliography
Is Plato a Consequentialist?
1. Introduction
2. Consequentialist principles in the Republic and the Laws
2.1. Laws and consequentialist principles
2.2. Principle H and consequentialism
3. Objections to consequentialism in Plato
4. Evidence for and against consequentialism in Plato
4.1. Demandingness
4.2. The do/allow distinction
4.3. Doing bad things
4.4. Impartiality
5. The harm principle
6. The Laws’ theology
6.1. The petteia-player
6.2. Why does the Coincidence obtain?
6.3. Rational eudaemonism, A1, and the Coincidence
6.4. Book 10’s theology and our self-understanding
Bibliography
Aristotle’s Argument for the Necessity of What We Understand
1. We think we only understand necessities?
2. Understanding as a relative
2.1. Understanding is not simultaneous with its object
2.2. What are the objects of understanding?
2.3. Is the dependency principle specific to scientific understanding?
3. Understanding as a state
3.1. The tension between the two principles
4. A tempting solution
5. Aristotle’s argument for the necessity of what we understand
5.1. Why does Aristotle hold that contingencies are KOWT?
5.2. How does the claim that contingencies are KOWT establish that understanding is of necessities?
6. Objections
6.1. Objection 1: Durability without eternal truth
6.2. Objection 2: Eternal truth without necessity
7. Concluding remarks
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Aristotle on Digestion, Self-Motion, and the Eternity of the Universe: A Discussion of Physics 8. 6 and De somno
1. Introduction
2. Physics 8. 6: The difficulty and its context
3. The passage (Physics 8. 6, 259b1–20)
4. Three interpretations and their shortcomings
5. A new interpretation and its evidence in Physics 8
6. De somno on sleep and digestion
7. Temporal continuity and the ou kuriōs claim in Physics 8. 6
8. The broader context
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Giving Gifts and Making Friends: Seneca’s De beneficiis on How to Expand One’s Sphere of Ethical Concern
1. Introduction
2. The Stoic ideal
3. Benefaction, joint activity, and friendship
4. The uniqueness of benefaction and self-sufficiency
5. Conclusion: Friendship and oikeiōsis
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Hierocles’ Concentric Circles
1. Four puzzles about the circles
2. Is Hierocles advocating complete impartiality?
3. Do the circles illustrate the theory of oikeios̄ is?
4. Finding out what is appropriate
5. Hierocles’ investigation of duties
6. Organic parts within parts
7. The circles as organic parts of the universal body
8. Solving the puzzles about the circles
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Archaic Epistemology: A Discussion of Jessica Moss, Plato’s Epistemology: Being and Seeming
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Index Locorum
Notes for Contributors to Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
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