A new perspective on Antisthenes : logos, predicate and ethics in his philosophy /
Antisthenes (c. 445- c. 365 BC) was a prominent follower of Socrates and bitter rival of Plato. In this revisionary account of his philosophy in all its aspects, P.A. Meijer claims that Plato and Aristotle have corrupted our perspective on this witty and ingenious thinker. The first part of the book...
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Amsterdam University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Primary sources
- editions used; Introduction; 1 Antisthenes' status; 2 The importance of Antisthenes' philosophical views; Part I
- Logos and predicate; Chapter I. Contradiction; 1 Did Antisthenes claim that there is no such thing as contradiction?; 2 Was Antisthenes the first theoretician of the predicate?; 3 Aristotle contra Antisthenes; 4 A 'mad' contradictor; 5 Antisthenes and ouden legein; 6 Aristotle's unconvincing rejoinder; 7 The silver-tin analogy; 8 The Antistheneans; 9 Was makros logos an unusual notion?; 10 The enumerative definition
- Chapter II. Antisthenes' scientific approach to the study of Homer1 Polytropos; 1 Section 1; 2 Section 2 (lysis); 3 Section 3; 2 Commentary on the sections; 1 Strange section 3; 2 Antisthenes' logical style; 3 Argumentation in Section 2; 4 Section 3 revisited; 3 Aristotle corrected; Chapter III. Antisthenes' interpretation of other Homeric figures; 1 A critical observation: Antisthenes in favour of Homer and the Cyclopes; 2 Calypso; 3 Other places in Homer: On Wine; Part III
- Antisthenean ethics; Chapter I. Ethics and myth; 1 Introduction: moral strength; 2 Heracles: ethics and paideia
- 3 Heracles and heavenly matters4 Heracles and money; 5 Heracles and virtue; 6 Properties of virtue and wisdom (phronēsis); Chapter II. Sex, marriage, family; 1 Antisthenes' teaching regarding sex and marriage; 2 Adultery; 3 Family; Chapter III. Aspasia; 1 Introduction; 2 Aspasia and Pericles; 3 Aspasia and Menexenus; Chapter IV. Alcibiades; 1 Alcibiades and beauty; 2 Alcibiades' bad behaviour; Chapter V. Antisthenes and politics; 1 Introduction; 2 Archelaus, the bad king?; 3 Whence Antisthenes' preference for Cyrus as the good king?; 4 Antisthenes' Cyrus works and Xenophon's Cyropaedia