Ambury James M. - Philosophy As a Way of Life

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I think that Homer said it all in the line, Going in tandem, one perceives before the other. Human beings are simply more resourceful this way in action, speech, and thought.

Socrates in Plato's Protagoras, 348cd

James M. Ambury is an associate professor of philosophy at Kings College in WilkesBarre, Pennsylvania, and a member of the Mellon Philosophy as a Way of Life Network. He is the coeditor (with Andy German) of Knowledge and Ignorance of Self in Platonic Philosophy (Cambridge, 2019) and has published articles in Ancient Philosophy, International Philosophical Quarterly, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Dionysius, and Plato.

Joseph I. Breidenstein is a Ph.D. candidate at Queens University at Kingston, Ontario, and is currently writing his dissertation on how Nietzsche was influenced by his classical education when formulating his understanding of reincarnation. His other research interests include early Greek philosophy, Bergson, Peirce, Whitehead, and Deleuze.

Caleb M. Cohoe is an associate professor of philosophy at Metropolitan State University of Denver. He has published articles on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy in a number of journals, including Phronesis, the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Apeiron, and the Philosophical Quarterly. He has ongoing projects on Aristotles theory of understanding and Augustines views on happiness. He serves as one of the lead faculty advisers for the Philosophy as a Way of Life Project.