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Durham Research Online Deposited in DRO: 05 August 2016 Version of attached le: Published Version Peer-review status of attached le: Peer-reviewed Citation for published item: Horky, Phillip Sidney. (2015) 'Pseudo-Archytas protreptics? On Wisdom in its context.', in Second sailing : alternative perspectives on Plato. Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, pp. 21-39. Commentationes humanarum litterarum. (132). 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Durham University Library, Stockton Road, Durham DH1 3LY, United Kingdom Tel : +44 (0)191 334 3042 | Fax : +44 (0)191 334 2971 https://dro.dur.ac.uk Societas Scientiurom Fennica Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 132 2015 The Finnish Society of Scknces and Letters Address: Fabianinkaru 4 B 16, FIN~ 00130 Helsinki, Finland In Swedish: Finska Vetenskaps-Societeten, Fabiansgatan 4 B 16, FIN-· 00130 Helsingfurs In Finnish: Suomen 11edeseura, Fabianinkaru 4 B 16,00130 Helsinki Commentationer. Humanarun Litterarum 1ht series, founded in 1923, publishes since 1996 monographs on antiquity and its tradition, SECOND SAILING: Editor: Alternative Perspectives on Plato Pro£ cm. Jaakko Frosen Address: Department ofWJrld Cultwes, P. 0. Box 24, FIN - 00014 University of Helsinki &quests for Exchange: Exchange Center for Scientific Literature, Snellmaninkatu 13, FIN- 00170 Helsinki, Edited by Debra Nails and Harold Tarrant or at the Secretary of the Society. Di.rtributtd by: 11cdekirja, Sndlmaninkatu 13, FIN - 00170 Helsinki, Finland, [email protected] in Collaboration with Mika Kajava and Eero Salmenkivi Other strits published by the Society: Commcntationes Physico-Mathematicac: Commentationes Scientiarum Socialium Bidrag till kanned.om av Finlands natur och folk The HisroryofLearning ancl Science in Finland 1828-1918 Societas Scientiarum Fennica Arsbok- Vuosikirja (Yearbook), serie A sarja Sphinx (Arsbok- Vuosikirj~, serie B sarja) The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters Contents Preface MIKA KAJAVA, PAUUJNA R.I!MBS and E!!Ro SALMENKIVI Introduction iii HAROLD TARBANT and DEBRA NAILS Paradigmatic Method and Platonic Epistemology DIMJTRI EL MuRR Pseudo-Archyras' Protreptics? On Wisdom in its Contexts 21 PHILUP SmNEY HoRXY Plato and the Variety of Literary Production 41 MAuROTULu The Meaning of"AnoAA.ov ... Oalr.toviac; imep~o.A.fic;' in 53 Plato's &public 6,509b6-<:4: A New Hypothesis A. GABRIELE "WERSINGER-TAYLOR Dangerous Sailing: [Plato) S«ondA/cibialies 147a1-4 59 HARow T ARRANT Bad Luck to Take a Woman Aboard 73 DEBRA NAILS Argument and Context: Adaption and Recasting of Positions in 91 Plato's Dialogues MICHA£L ERLER Listening to Socrates in the Theaetetus: Recovering a Lost Narrator 107 ANNE-MARII! Sc HULTZ The Mask of Dialogue: On the Unity of Socrates' Charat.tcrization in 125 Plato's Dialogues MARJO R.I!GALI Plato, Socrates, and the gmei gennaia sophistike of Sophist 23l b 149 CHRJSTOPHER Ro~""E Eros and Dialectic in Plato's Phaedrus: 169 Questioning the Value of Chronology FRANCISCO J. GONZALEZ Changing Course in Plato Studies 187 Preface GERALD A. PRESS Is the Idea of the Good Beyond Being? 197 Plato's epektdna tis ousias Revisited (Republic 6,509b8-10) The idea that gave birth 'to this volume goes back some years to when we were RAFAEL FERBER and GRBGOR DAMSCHEN discussing privatdy how to celebrate the forthcoming ninetieth birthday of our Like Being Nothing: Death and Anaesthesia in Plato Apology 40c 205 friend and instructor Holger Thesleff. This was to happen, we fdt, discretely and RICK BBNITEZ as unostentatiously as possible, and paying particular attention to Plato and his work, which have been the major fOcus ofThesleffs scholarly interests over the Ideas of Good? 225 past decades. As it happens, the honorand was not unaware of our ?lans, and LLOYD P. GERSON indeed we are glad to recognize that during the whole process h.e had a host of Are There Ddiberatdy Left Gaps in Plato's Dialogues? 243 constructive thoughts of how to deal with it. In particular, thanks to Thesleffs THOMAS ALEXANDER SZLEzAK farsighted and well-thought views, an initially planned gathering of a number of Platonists !n Helsinki transformed into a volume, the present one, containing Plato's Putative Mouthpiece and Ancient Authorial Practice: 257 contributions by the same people. Rath.er than a traditional Festschrift, the book The Case of Homer was to become a collection of critical revisitations of ~arious Platonic themes, J. J. MULiiERN many of which have been discussed by Thesleff himsel£ In many respects, then, Translating Plato 279 what the reader has in hand may be literally taken as a 'second sailing'. Coin ]AN STOLPE cidence or not, Holger Thesleff himself is a seafaring man, as is shown by the 'Making New Gods'? A Reflection on the Gift of the Symposium 285 frontispiece photograph of the square-rigged windjammer Passat, one of the last MrTCHBLL MrLLER true Cape Horn ships, with Holger as apprentice on board in the late 1940s on the voyage from England to South Australia and as third mate on the way back A Horse is a Horse, of Course, of Course, but What about Horseness? 307 to Wales via Ireland. NEciP FiKRi ALiCAN This book would never have docked in harbour without the gratuitous and sagacious commitment of its chief editors, professors Debra Nails and Harold Works Cited 325 Tarrant, who became involved with the project at an early stage. We are im mensely grateful for their contribution. Index Locorum 347 Our sincerest thanks go to the publisher, the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, for accepting this volume to appear in the Commentt.ztiones Humanarum General Index 359 Litterarum, as well as to the general editor of the series, professor Jaakko Frosen, who gave invaluable support during the editorial process. Helsinki, September 2015 Mika Kajava f Pauliina Remes ,I· Hero Salmmkivi l 20 EL MURR, Paradigmatic Method Therefore, the paradigmatic method can lead to the awakening of knowledge Pseudo-Archytas' Protreptics? but not solely through its own action: it is a crucial tool for dialectical enquiries On Wisdom in its Contexts* inasmuch as it enables the division to resume and progress on the right track. Be cause it secures the starting-point of the enquiry, the methodical use ofparadigms guides the introduction of significant diffirentiae that the dialectician will intro PHJLLIP SroNEYHORKY duce in the ~nera he considers, in order to isolate his target. Yet, Plato is eager to make clear that t;he paradigmatic method that underpins any use of paradigms does not allow one to attain knowledge of the target. Among ancient philosophers, pseudo-Atchytas has not fared especially well. With the exceptioa ofhis work On the [!nivmal Logos (or, in its alternative tide, On the Univmite Paris 1 Panthion-Sorbonne and Categories), which has been studied for its value in calibrating the various reac Institut univmitaire de France tions to Aristotle's Categories in the first century BCE (especially in Alexandria), the remaining fragments of ps-Atchytas have generally received little discussion in the critical literature. 1 The titles of these works are, in order of probable date • This paper is an adaptation and translation into English of material taken from chapter 2 of of production, On Law and justice (possibly composed around the late fourth or El Murr (2014). [ thank Maty Louise Gill for stimulating conunenrs on an earlier version. This early third cenruries BeE); On Wisdom, On Intelligence and Perception, and On paper is offered te> Professor ThesldF a.! a token of ..dmiration for his groundbreaking work on the structure and styles of Plato's dialogues. Being (possibly fourth to first century BCE, likely leaning towards the end of this period); On the Universal Logos/On the Categories, On Opposites, On the Virtuous and Happy Man, and On Moral Ed~cation (very likely first century BCE); ·and Ten Universal Amrtions (after the founh century c.e). 2 Most of these: works appear to be treatises, with the exception of On Law andjustice, which is currently the sub ject of an extensive study by myself and Monte Ransome Johnson, and which we hypothesize to have been an extract from a speech associated with Archyeas by his biographer Aristoxenus ofTarenrum in the late fourth/early third century BCE.3 If these termini post and ante quem are approximately valid, then we have a situation in which production of Pythagorean pseudepigrapha4 was a sustained Studies a:' ps-Archyta.!' philosophy withili. the larger context of the Pythagorean pseudcpigta pha include Ccntronc 2014, 2000b, and 1990; Reale 1990, 237-49; and Mor:aux 1984, 608-83. SzlC'J.ak 1?;"2 is the only monograph dedicated to this author, and only to one work (On tht Uniwr sa/ Logos/On the Categorin). Griffin 2015, 97-99 discu=s On the G'nivena/ Logos/On th• Categories in the contat of the fragments of Eudorus and Andronicus. I adopt a version ofTheslelf'§ dating (1961) for the purposes of this article but suspend judg ment at this time about dating these tars more precisely. See Horky and Johnson (forthcoming). Following ThesldF and Moraux, I refer to these works as '1'}-rhagorean pseudepigtapha' rather than 'Pseudo-Pythagorean' works ~ r 'Pseudopyrhagorica' (as Burkert, Centrone, Huffman, Macris, and Ulacco do), which, in my opinion, lw the capacity to be doubly obscuranrisr.