Particulars in Greek Philosophy: The Seventh S.V. Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (Philosophia Antiqua)

Ancient Greek philosophy has been criticised, for example by the late Bernard Williams, for emphasising the universal at the expense of the particular. Six leading scholars consider what the Greeks themselves, from Plato to the period of the Roman Empire, had to say on this issue in the contexts of ethics, psychology, metaphysics and cosmology. Ancient views are compared with modern ones, and the influence of the former on the latter is considered. Moral Vision And Legislating For The Good In Aristotle / Robert Wardy -- Particular Virtues In The Nicomachean Ethics Of Aristotle / Carlo Natali -- What's A Particular, And What Makes It So? : Some Thoughts, Mainly About Aristotle / Verity Harte -- Particulars, Selves And Individuals In Stoic Philosophy / Christopher Gill -- On Christopher Gill On Particulars, Selves And Individuals In Stoic Philosophy / Angela Hobbs -- Alexander Of Aphrodisias On Particulars And The Stoic Criterion Of Identity / Marwan Rashed. Edited By Robert W. Sharples. Papers Presented At The Seventh S.v. Keeling Colloquium In Ancient Philosophy In November 2007 At University College London. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. An examination by leading scholars of what the ancient Greeks had to say on the relation between the universal and the particular in ethics, psychology, metaphysics and cosmology