Knowledge Commons | Ancient Philosophy | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/ancient-philosophy/ Activity feed for the group, Ancient Philosophy. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:02:31 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 c5dfdfd35ca50224c1519db8a218c6e0 D. Gregory MacIsaac deposited The False Appearance of the Sophist Himself in the First Six Definitions of Plato’s Sophist in the group Ancient Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900000/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:05:55 -0400 The key to how the definitions in Sophist fit together is the seventh definition, the maker of false appearances. The first six definitions are a false appearance of the sophist himself, as a businessman who sells an art of disputation to rich young men. Because this is a deception, to unmask him we need to supplement the brief descriptions in…[Read more]

]]> 0 032837f0e83a0dc84029877d42909dd4 D. Gregory MacIsaac deposited Plato’s Account of Eleaticism: A New Interpretation of Parmenides in the group Ancient Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1837734/ Fri, 17 Mar 2023 02:23:39 -0400 I propose a new interpretation of Plato’s Parmenides. I avoid the assumption of Developmentalism, that Plato is criticising his own ‘middle’ theory of forms. Instead, I read the dialogue as Plato’s serious presentation of the Eleatic position. He shows that Eleatics’s counterintuitive thesis follows from the fundamental assumption of qualitati…[Read more]

]]> 0 7e213b4ce7c037450a2c80c84f3e59a0 D. Gregory MacIsaac deposited The Deficiencies of the Presocratic Material Elements and the Dream Theory in Theaetetus in the group Ancient Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1785193/ Wed, 29 Jun 2022 02:23:39 -0400 The Dream Theory in Theaetetus is Plato's generalised account of Presocratic elements. Evidence for this given from Laws, Phaedo, Timaeus, and through a comparison with Aristotle's account.

]]> 0 f4517bfde9d241ac0e6bfec8d1dd1a1e D. Gregory MacIsaac started the topic Ancient Philosophy Events Calendar in the discussion Ancient Philosophy https://hcommons.org/groups/ancient-philosophy/forum/topic/ancient-philosophy-events-calendar/ Fri, 25 Mar 2022 15:06:46 -0400 A calendar of Ancient Philosophy Events: https://endoxa.blog/ancient-philosophy-calendar/

A calendar of Calls for Papers: https://endoxa.blog/cfps-calendar/

]]> f915821d7a77f66c13dacc9a43fecb4f D. Gregory MacIsaac deposited On Proclus as a Platonic Exegete in the group Ancient Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1775526/ Wed, 23 Mar 2022 02:23:48 -0400 A response to John Finamore, “The Divided Line and the Cave in Proclus' Republic Commentary.”

]]> 0 218ca6591be1b4c485726d1954d8790e Chris A. Kramer deposited A Wise Person Proportions their Beliefs With Humor in the group Ancient Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743513/ Fri, 25 Jun 2021 02:28:57 -0400 What has proportion to do with humor or irony? And what do either of these have to do with being human? Jokes, laughter, and funniness connote excess, exaggeration, incongruity, dissonance, etc., the opposite of proportion--balance, symmetry, Aristotle’s golden mean. Yet, The Philosopher maintains, the wit has found the ideal moderate position b…[Read more]

]]> 0 a559284ab4fa53a3f56a758039720e44 Andrew Radde-Gallwitz deposited The Cappadocians (Draft for Oxford Handbook of Apophatic Theology) in the group Ancient Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740635/ Sun, 06 Jun 2021 02:23:38 -0400 [This draft is for the Oxford Handbook of Apophatic Theology.] This chapter identifies an apophatic theology common to the three Cappadocian Fathers—Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nyssa. The central theme of their apophatic theology is the incomprehensibility of God. God, they argue, is known under multiple concepts and n…[Read more]

]]> 0 dec52bd48daf993c9a2a8769c91aee2a D. Gregory MacIsaac deposited The Role of the Digression on the Man of the Law Courts and the Philosopher (172b-177c) in the Argument of Theaetetus in the group Ancient Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1726474/ Sat, 06 Feb 2021 02:31:49 -0500 Interpretations of the Theaetetus digression fail to see how it functions in Plato’s argument because they have taken its praise of the philosopher at face value. But this is not the philosopher from Republic. His otherworldliness reflects both Theodorus’ mathematical understanding of philosophy as the study of ‘divine’ objects and the judgeme…[Read more]

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