Thinking, Knowing, Acting : Epistemology and Ethics in Plato and Ancient Platonism.

Intro -- Thinking, Knowing, Acting: Epistemology and Ethics in Plato and Ancient Platonism -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Acting and Knowing before Plato: on Solon's Theodicy -- 2 Plato and the 'Performative Contradiction' -- 3 Self-knowledge and Politics in the Alcibiades I -- 4 Plato's Journey through the Conflict: Knowledge, Action and καιρός in the Syracusan Experience -- 5 Learning from the Gods: Episteme and Politics in Plato's Menexenus -- 6 Der beste Logos als Handlungskriterium in Platons Kriton -- 7 Das δαιμόνιον im Theages und der Weg zur Weisheit -- 8 The Theaetetus Digression: an Ethical Interlude in an Epistemological Dialogue? -- 9 Kompsoi Logoi -- 10 Aristotle's Method of Inquiry in Eudemian Ethics 1 and 2 -- 11 Is the Phronimos Shame-Less? Shame, Habituation and the Notion of the Noble in Aristotle -- 12 The telos of Assimilation to God and the Conflict between theoria and praxis in Plato and the Middle Platonists -- 13 Wissen und Meinung im anonymen Theaitetoskommentar -- 14 The Theory of Mixtures and Its Ethical Implications: Role and Responsibility of the Galenic Physician -- 15 Selbstbewegung und Kreisbewegung. Autokinesis in Plotin anhand der Enn. 6, 9, 8 [9] -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Relevant Passages.

Thinking, Knowing, Acting: Epistemology and Ethics in Plato and Ancient Platonism aims to offer a fresh perspective on the correlation between epistemology and ethics in Plato and the Platonic tradition from Aristotle to Plotinus, by investigating the social, juridical and theoretical premises of their philosophy.

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