ABSTRACT

What can the study of the history of ancient philosophy bring to the study of contemporary philosophical problems and questions? In New Essays on Plato and Aristotle eight distinguished philosophers address topics in Greek philosophy that are connected with current philosophical issues. All the essays are original and include Gilbert Ryle on Dialectic in the Academy and R. M. Hare on Plato’s indictment of mathematicians.

chapter |19 pages

Degrees of Reality in Plato

chapter |18 pages

Plato and the Mathematicians 1

chapter |30 pages

Dialectic in the Academy

chapter |16 pages

Thought and Action in Aristotle

What Is 'Practical Truth'?