Mental Conflict.
Title:
Mental Conflict.
Author:
Price, A. W.
ISBN:
9780203983126
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (229 pages)
Series:
Issues in Ancient Philosophy
Contents:
BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- HORS-D'ŒUVRE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 SOCRATES -- 1 -- 2 -- SOCRATES AND DIOTIMA: AN APPENDIX -- 2 PLATO -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 -- 10 -- 11 -- 3 ARISTOTLE -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 4 THE STOICS -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- BETWEEN PLATO AND THE STOA: APPENDIX ON POSIDONIUS -- NOTES -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 SOCRATES -- 2 PLATO -- 3 ARISTOTLE -- 4 THE STOICS -- PRIMARY SOURCES -- ANCIENT -- Aristotle (fourth century BC) -- Aristotleís commentators -- Cicero (first century BC) -- Demosthenes (fourth century BC) -- Epictetus (first/second century AD) -- Euripides (fifth century BC) -- Galen (second century AD) -- Homer (? eighth century BC) -- Iamblichus (fourth century AD) -- Lysias (fifth/fourth century BC) -- Plato (fifth/fourth century BC) -- Plutarch (first/second century AD) -- Plutarch or Pseudo-Plutarch -- Pseudo-Plato -- Seneca (first century AD) -- Xenophon (fifth/fourth century BC) -- MEDIEVAL -- Jean Buridan (fourteenth century AD) -- MODERN -- Johannes Von Arnim -- A.A. Long and D.N. Sedley -- NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS -- ARISTOTLE -- GALEN -- PLATO -- PLUTARCH -- THE STOICS -- SECONDARY CITATIONS -- INDEX.
Abstract:
As earthquakes expose geological faults, so mental conflict reveals tendencies to rupture within the mind. Dissension is rife not only between people but also within them, for each of us is subject to a contrariety of desires, beliefs, motivations, aspirations. What image are we to form of ourselves that might best enable us to accept the reality of discord, or achieve the ideal of harmony? Greek philosophers offer us a variety of pictures and structures intended to capture the actual and the possible either within a reason that fails to be resolute, or within a split soul that houses a play of forces. Reflection upon them alerts us to the elusiveness at once of mental reality, and of the understanding by which we hope to capture and transform it. Studying in turn the treatments of Mental Conflict in Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics, A.W. Price demonstrates how the arguments of the Greeks are still relevant to philosophical discussion today.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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