PERSPECTIVES ON GREEK PHILOSOPHY
In commemoration of the philosophical interests of Stanley Victor Keeling, the annual lectures in his memory highlight the interest and importance of ancient philosophy for contemporary study of the subject. This volume brings together the Keeling lectures from leading international figures in ancient and modern philosophy, presented between 1992 and 2002. Including contributions from Bernard Williams and Martha Nussbaum, lectures range across topics such as Intrinsic Goodness, Necessity, Fate and Determinism and Quality of Life, extending from Plato through Aristotle to the Stoics. Edited and with a preface by R. W. Sharpies.
ASHGATE KEELING SERIES IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
The Ashgate Keeling Series in Ancient Philosophy presents edited collections of leading international research which illustrate and explore ways in which ancient and modern philosophy interact. Drawing on original papers presented at the S. V. Keeling Memorial Lectures and Colloquia at University College London, this series incorporates contributions from the Anglo-American philosophical tradition and from continental Europe, and brings together scholars internationally recognised for their work on ancient philosophy as well as those whose primary work in contemporary philosophy speaks of the importance of ancient philosophy in modern philosophical research and study. Each book in the series will appeal to upper-level and graduate students and academic researchers worldwide - both those who are interested in ancient philosophy and those who are working in the relevant areas of contemporary philosophy.
Perspectives on Greek Philosophy
S.V. Keeling Memorial Lectures in Ancient Philosophy
1992-2002
Edited by
R.W. SHARPLES
University College London
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Contents
Bernard Williams (1997)
T.H. Irwin (1996)
Gnther Patzig (1992)
Jacques Brunschwig (1995)
David Furley (1994)
John M. Cooper (1993)
David Charles (2001)
Sarah Broadie (1999)
Martha Nussbaum (2002)
Sarah Broadie is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.
Jacques Brunschwig is Professor of the History of Ancient Philosophy, Emeritus, at the University of Paris I Panthon-Sorbonne.
David Charles is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Oriel College, Oxford.
John M. Cooper is Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.
David Furley is Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at Princeton University, and an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.
T.H. Irwin is Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University.
Martha Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago.
Gnther Patzig is Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at the Georg-August-Universitt, Gttingen.
Bernard Williams is Deutsch Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
This volume contains nine of the ten Stanley Victor Keeling Memorial Lectures given at University College London in the years 1992-2002 inclusive.1 The tenth, given in 1999, was by Professor Myles Bumyeat of All Souls College, Oxford, on Plato and Aristotle on the Pleasures of Philosophy.
Stanley Victor Keeling (1894-1979) was Lecturer and then Reader in Philosophy at University College London; upon his retirement in 1954 he went to live in Paris, where he died in 1979.2 While his principal published works were on Descartes and McTaggart,3 he also taught ancient philosophy, and wrote of his desire to ensure that the study of Greek philosophy should assume in our university courses a position commensurate with its importance. It was with this in mind that, when an anonymous donor set up the endowment that funds the Keeling Lecture (and subsequently also the biennial Colloquia4 and a Scholarship) it was laid down that the subject of the Lecture should be ancient Greek philosophy. The inclusion in this volume of a lecture by Professor Jacques Brunschwig recognizes Keelings interest in France (he studied for his doctorate at the Universities of Toulouse and Montpellier, and lived in Paris after his retirement).
The lectures published or reprinted here have been arranged in the (approximate) chronological order of the topics covered, rather than in the order in which they were given. My thanks as editor are due to the lecturers, and to the publishers in the case of lectures published elsewhere, for permission to print or reprint the lectures. (Specific acknowledgements of permissions to reprint are given at the start of each lecture.) My thanks are also due to Ashgate Publishing for undertaking the publication of this volume and indeed of the Keeling Series in Ancient Philosophy, and to my colleagues in the Keeling Committee, Professor Gerard ODaly and Dr Bob Heinaman; Dr Heinaman has undertaken most of the work of inviting lecturers and organizing lectures in the period covered by this volume.
Bob Sharpies
Department of Greek and Latin,
University College London
Notes
1 Nine of the lectures from the first ten were published in R.W. Sharpies (ed.), Ancient Thinkers and Modern Thinkers: The Stanley Victor Keeling Memorial Lectures 1981-1991, London: UCL Press, 1993.
2 See the Biographical Sketch by E. Senior, with a bibliography of Keelings publications, in S.V. Keeling, Time and Duration, ed. G. Rochelle, Lewiston: Edwin Mellon Press, 1992.
3 S.V. Keeling, Descartes, London: Ernest Benn, 1934, 2nd, revised ed., London: Oxford University Press, 1968; J.M.E. Mactaggart, Philosophical Studies, edited with an introduction by S.V. Keeling, London: E. Arnold, 1934. In 1948 Keeling gave the British Academy annual Master Mind lecture on Descartes (
