Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception (Topics in Ancient Philosophy / Themen Der Antiken Philosophi)

Diese Reihe bietet ein Forum für Studien, welche die Texte, Themen und Argumente antiker Philosophen aufgreifen und diskutieren. Sie zeigen, dass philosophische Geschichtsschreibung nicht nur die Theorien antiker Autoren nachzeichnet, sondern deren Argumente auch rekonstruieren, mit aktuellen philosophischen Diskussionen verbinden und damit heutige Diskurse entscheidend bereichern kann. Table of Contents 8 Preface 12 Abbreviations 14 Introduction 16 Part I: Ancient Greek Dialectic in Classical Antiquity 52 Dialectic as True Rhetoric in Plato’s Gorgias 52 Socrates’ “Flight into the Logoi”: A Non-Standard Interpretation of the Founding Document of Plato’s Dialectic 72 Friendly Fire: Dialectic Struggles between the Megarians and Plato 98 Eros on Stage: Dialogue and Dialectic in the Phaedrus 120 Dialectic and the Activity of the Soul when Reaching for Being and the Good in Plato’s Theaetetus 184b3–186e12 144 Pursuing Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Sophist. The Communion of the Sophistic and Socratic Dialectic in the Sixth Definition of the Sophist: A Reading Based on Proclus’ Interpretation of Dialectic in the Sophist 172 On Plato’s Late Dialectic: The Methods of Collection and Division 204 Sophistical Demonstrations: A Class of Arguments Entangled with False Peirastic and Pseudographemata 226 Part II: Reception, Interpretation, Development and Influence of Ancient Greek Dialectic in Late Antiquity and Byzantium 264 The Services of Dialectic: Dialectic as an Instrument for Metaphysics in Alexander of Aphrodisias 264 Aporiai with Multiple Solutions in Alexander of Aphrodisias 292 Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Principle of Non-Contradiction: The Argument “from Signification” 302 Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception in Origen of Alexandria: From Plato to Christ-Logos 346 Exegesis as Philosophy: Notes on Aristotelian Methods in Neoplatonic Commentary 386 Syrianus and the Dialectical Cosmos 412 Proclus on Plato’s Dialectic: Argument by Performance 428 Elenchus and Syllogistic in Olympiodorus of Alexandria 442 Simplicius and Aristotle’s Dialectic 456 Michael Psellos on Dialectic and Allegory 472 Index Locorum 484 Index Nominum 508 Index Rerum 514 Notes on the Contributors 536 The volume focusses on ancient Greek dialectic and its impact on later philosophical thought, up to Byzantium. The contributions are written by distinguished scholars in their respective fields of study and shed light on the relation of ancient Greek dialectic to various aspects of human life and soul, to self-knowledge and self-consciousness, to science, rhetoric, and political theory.