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ANCIENT MODELS OF MIND

How does god think? How, ideally, does a human mind function? Must a gap remain between these two paradigms of rationality? Such questions exercised the greatest ancient philosophers, including those featured in this book: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Ploti- nus. This volume encompasses a series of studies by leading scholars, revisiting key moments of ancient philosophy and highlighting the theme of human and divine rationality in both moral and cognitive psychology. It is a tribute to Professor A. A. Long, and reﬂects multiple themes of his own work.

andrea nightingale is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. She is the author of Genres in Dia- logue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy (1995), Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy: Theoria in its Cultural Context (2004), and “Once out of Nature”: Augustine on Time and the Body (forthcom- ing). She has won a Guggenheim Fellowship, an ACLS Fellowship, and a fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center. She has been a Stanford Fellow (2004–6) and is presently serving as a Harvard Senior Fellow of the Hellenic Center (2009–2013). david sedley is Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Fellow of Christ’s College. He is the author of The Hellenistic Philosophers (1987,with A. A. Long), Lucretius and the Transformation of Greek Wisdom (1998), Plato’s Cratylus (2003), The Midwife of Platonism: Text and Subtext in Plato’s Theaetetus (2004), and Creationism and its Critics in Antiquity (2007), based on his 2004 Sather Lectures. He edited Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy from 1998 to 2007. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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ANCIENT MODELS OF MIND Studies in Human and Divine Rationality

edited by ANDREA NIGHTINGALE AND DAVID SEDLEY

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Contents

List of contributors page ix

Introduction 1 Andrea Nightingale and David Sedley 1. Plato on aporia and self-knowledge 8 Andrea Nightingale 2. Cross-examining happiness: reason and community in Plato’s Socratic dialogues 27 Sara Ahbel-Rappe 3. Inspiration, recollection, and mim¯esis in Plato’s Phaedrus 45 Kathryn A. Morgan 4. Plato’s Theaetetus as an ethical dialogue 64 David Sedley 5. Contemplating divine mind 75 Allan Silverman 6. Aristotle and the history of skepticism 97 Alan Code 7. Stoic selection: objects, actions, and agents 110 Stephen White 8. Beauty and its relation to goodness in Stoicism 130 Richard Bett 9. How dialectical was Stoic dialectic? 153 Luca Castagnoli

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10. Socrates speaks in Seneca, De vita beata 24–28 180 James Ker 11. Seneca’s Platonism: the soul and its divine origin 196 Gretchen Reydams-Schils 12. The status of the individual in Plotinus 216 Kenneth Wolfe

A. A. Long: publications 1963–2009 225 Bibliography 237 Index 248

Contributors

sara ahbel-rappe, Professor of Greek and Latin in the Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor richard bett, Professor of Philosophy and Classics, Johns Hopkins University luca castagnoli, Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy, Department of Clas- sics and Ancient History, Durham University alan code, Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers Uni- versity james ker, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsyl- vania kathryn a. morgan, Professor of Classics, University of California, Los Angeles andrea nightingale, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Stanford University gretchen reydams-schils, Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies and Concurrent in the Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame david sedley, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge allan silverman, Professor of Philosophy, Ohio State University stephen white, Professor of Classics and Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin kenneth wolfe, Tutor at St John’s College, Santa Fe