Reason and Analysis in Ancient Greek Philosophy : Essays in Honor of David Keyt

Acknowledgments......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
Abbreviations of Plato’s Works......Page 16
Abbreviations of Aristotle’s Works......Page 18
Introduction......Page 19
Bibliography......Page 27
1 Arsenal Technical High School......Page 28
2 Kenyon College......Page 29
3 Cornell University......Page 31
4 The U.S. Army......Page 33
5 The University of Washington......Page 34
6 The 1960s......Page 36
7 The 1970s......Page 39
8 Princeton and Hong Kong......Page 43
9 The Road Not Taken......Page 47
10 Working with Others......Page 48
11 August in Greece......Page 52
12 The New Century......Page 53
13 Last Things......Page 57
Works Cited......Page 58
1 Introduction......Page 62
2 Text #1: Apology 21b1-23e3......Page 64
3 Text #2: Apology 29e3-30a3......Page 66
4 Text #3: Apology 32b1-32d4......Page 67
6 Conclusion......Page 68
Notes......Page 69
Bibliography......Page 70
Socrates, the Athenian......Page 71
Notes......Page 81
Bibliography......Page 82
Socrates on the Impossibility of a Reasonable Politics......Page 83
1 Three Paradoxes......Page 84
2 A Grand Isolationism......Page 87
3 A Reluctant Isolationism......Page 89
4 A New Isolationism......Page 91
4.1 A Conceptual Breakthrough......Page 93
4.2 Socrates as Partisan......Page 96
4.3 Lobbying as a Profession......Page 97
5 Pessimism......Page 100
6 Resolving the Paradoxes......Page 102
Notes......Page 104
Bibliography......Page 105
1 Setting the Stage......Page 107
2 The Project......Page 109
3 Proving the Major Premise......Page 110
4 Proving the Minor Premise......Page 119
Notes......Page 123
Bibliography......Page 124
2 The Philosophical Significance of Socrates’ Moral Character......Page 125
3 The Socratic Problem and the Character of Socrates......Page 128
4 The Speech of Alcibiades and Socrates’ Attitude toward Eros in the Symposium......Page 129
5 Interpretations of Alcibiades’ Speech......Page 130
6 Alcibiades’ Speech and the Problem of Humor......Page 132
7 The Irony and Humor of Alcibiades......Page 133
8 Concluding Considerations......Page 136
Bibliography......Page 138
Plato’s Republic as a Vocation......Page 140
1 Weber and Wolin......Page 141
2 Education in the Republic......Page 146
3 Institutional Design......Page 151
4 The Principle of Specialization and Vocations......Page 154
Notes......Page 158
Bibliography......Page 159
1 Reason......Page 161
2 Appetite......Page 167
3 Spirit......Page 172
4 Ruling the Soul......Page 177
5 Souls and Persons......Page 178
Notes......Page 183
Bibliography......Page 184
Just City and Just Soul in Plato’s Republic......Page 185
1 The Functional Theory of Good and Virtue......Page 186
2 The Isomorphism Between Just City and Just Soul......Page 187
3 Parts of the Soul: Agents or Faculties?......Page 190
4 Is Plato’s Completely Good City Intellectually, Politically, and Ethically Elitist?......Page 197
5 The Virtues and Vices of Isomorphism......Page 203
Notes......Page 205
Bibliography......Page 208
Virtue, Luck, and Choice at the End of the Republic......Page 210
Notes......Page 219
Bibliography......Page 221
1 Interwoven Forms and the Simple Semantic Theory......Page 223
2 Positioning Plato’s Remark......Page 225
3 A Problem for Plato......Page 227
4 Introducing Precision......Page 229
5 A Platonic Sense Structure......Page 231
Notes......Page 238
Bibliography......Page 241
Accidental Beings in Aristotle’s Ontology......Page 243
Notes......Page 252
Bibliography......Page 253
Is There Room for Plato in an Aristotelian Theory of Essence?......Page 255
1.1 The Basic Argument for Sameness......Page 257
1.2 Plato and the Elaboration of the Basic Argument......Page 260
2.1 “Severance” and Its Consequences: 1031b3-11......Page 264
2.2 A Fresh Argument for Identity: Severance and a Principle from the Theory of Izzing and Having......Page 265
3.1 The Applications of Uniformity: Fallacy, or True Platonic Doctrine?......Page 267
3.2 Fallacy Again, or More True Doctrine?......Page 271
3.3 Aristotle on How Plato’s Forms Are Inessential to His Argument......Page 272
Notes......Page 273
Appendix......Page 279
Bibliography......Page 281
Metaphysics Z.11 and Functionalism......Page 282
1 Aristotle’s Anti-reductionism: Matter Depends on Form......Page 283
2 The Appearance of Compositional Plasticity in Metaphysics 1036a33-b3......Page 285
3 A Reading of Z.11 1036a-b32......Page 288
Notes......Page 291
Bibliography......Page 293
Aristotle on Belief and Knowledge......Page 295
1 Four Problems Concerning Belief......Page 296
2 Aristotle’s Basic Account of Belief......Page 297
3 How Is False Belief or Error Possible?......Page 299
4 If Belief Can Be False, How Is Knowledge Possible?......Page 300
5 How Is It Possible to Believe and Know the Same Objects?......Page 303
6 How Could Belief Be of Any Use to Philosophy?......Page 304
7 Conclusion......Page 310
Notes......Page 311
Appendix on Translation......Page 315
Bibliography......Page 316
1 Introduction......Page 318
2 Examples......Page 319
3 Other Forms of Grace......Page 320
5 Gratitude and Grace......Page 321
6 “Lafayette, We Are Here”......Page 322
8 A Regress......Page 323
Notes......Page 324
Bibliography......Page 325
The Works of David Keyt......Page 326
Index......Page 329