This volume features fifteen new papers by an international group of scholars in ancient philosophy, with a particular focus on new work in ancient Greek and Roman ethics, epistemology, logic, and science. The papers are organized around five broad topics: Plato, Aristotle's ethics and practical reasoning, Aristotelian logic, Hellenistic ethics, and Hellenistic epistemology. Specific topics covered include the refutation of the hedonist in Plato'sPhilebus, the question of whether modern interpreters are right to read Plato'sTimaeusas proto-historical, Aristotle's argument concerning virtue, Aristotle's discussion of practical reasoning in the realm of ethics, Aristotle's logical theory, classification and division of goods in ancient ethical theories, and belief, appearances, and assent in Hellenistic epistemology.
Preface Notes on Contributors
Plato 1. The life of Protarchus' choosing: Plato Philebus 20b-22c Verity Harte
2. Fools' pleasures in Plato's Philebus Jennifer Whiting
3. Did Plato's cosmos literally begin? Sarah Broadie
Aristotle's ethics and practical reasoning 4. A swarm of virtues: on the unity and completeness of Aristotle's scheme of character-virtues Dorothea Frede
5. Justice and the laws in Aristotle's ethics Mi-Kyoung Lee
6. Aristotle on how to fell a tree and other matters involving experience Dana Miller
Aristotelian logic 7. Deduction in Sophistici Elenchi 6 Marko Malink
8. Boethus and finished syllogisms Jonathan Barnes
9. Alexander of Aphrodisias on Aristotle's theory of the Stoic indemonstrables Susanne Bobzien
Hellenistic ethics 10. Why there are ends of both goods and evils in ancient ethical theory James Allen
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