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Gregory Vlastos (1907-1991) was one of the twentieth centurys most influential scholars of ancient philosophy. Over a span of more than fifty years, he published essays and book reviews that established his place as a leading authority on early Greek philosophy. The two volumes that comprise Studies in Greek Philosophy include nearly forty contributions by this acknowledged master of the philosophical essay. Many of these pieces are now considered to be classics in the field. Perhaps more than any other modern scholar, Gregory Vlastos was responsible for raising standards of research, analysis, and exposition in classical philosophy to new levels of excellence. His essays have served as paradigms of scholarship for several generations. Available for the first time in a comprehensive collection, these contributions reveal the authors ability to combine the skills of a philosopher, philologist, and historian of ideas in addressing some of the most difficult problems of ancient philosophy. Volume I collects Vlastoss essays on Presocratic philosophy. Wide-ranging concept studies link Greek science, religion, and politics with philosophy. Individual studies illuminate the thought of major philosophers such as Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, and Democritus. A magisterial series of studies on Zeno of Elea reveals the authors power in source criticism and logical analysis. Volume II contains essays on the thought of Socrates, Plato, and later thinkers and essays dealing with ethical, social, and political issues as well as metaphysics, science, and the foundations of mathematics.

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STUDIES IN GREEK PHILOSOPHY VOLUME II SOCRATES PLATO AND THEIR TRADITION - photo 1

STUDIES IN GREEK PHILOSOPHY

VOLUME II: SOCRATES, PLATO, AND THEIR TRADITION

Gregory Vlastos STUDIES IN GREEK PHILOSOPHY GREGORY VLASTOS VOLUME II - photo 2

Gregory Vlastos

STUDIES IN GREEK PHILOSOPHY

GREGORY VLASTOS

VOLUME II: SOCRATES, PLATO, AND THEIR TRADITION

Edited by Daniel W. Graham

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY

Copyright 1995 by Princeton University Press

Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street,

Princeton, New Jersey 08540

In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Chichester, West Sussex

All Rights Reserved

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Vlastos, Gregory

Studies in Greek philosophy / Gregory Vlastos.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents: v.1. The Presocratics v.2. Socrates, Plato, and their tradition.

ISBN 0-691-03311-0

ISBN 0-691-01938-X (pbk.)

1. Philosophy, Ancient. I. Graham, Daniel W. II. Title.

B171.V538 1994 180dc20 94-3112

This book has been composed in Times Roman

Princeton University Press books are printed on acid-free paper and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources

Printed in the United States of America

10 9 8 7 6 5 4

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

T HE PAPERS in this volume were previously published as noted below. The editor and the heirs of Gregory Vlastos gratefully acknowledge the permission to reprint granted by the agencies indicated.

1. The Paradox of Socrates

Queens Quarterly 64 (195758): 496516

Copyright, the heirs of Gregory Vlastos

2. Platiss Socrates Accusers

AJP 104 (1983): 2016

The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

3. Brickhouse and Smiths Socrates on Trial

TLS, No. 4, 524, Dec. 15, 1989, p. 1393

Times Literary Supplement, London.

4. Socrates on Political Obedience and Disobedience

Yale Review 63 (1974): 51734

The Yale Review, Copyright Yale University, New Haven.

5. Socrates on Acrasia

Phoenix 23 (1969): 7188

The Classical Association of Canada, Toronto.

6. Was Polus Refuted?

AJP 88 (1967): 45460

The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

7. The Theory of Social Justice in the Polis in Platos Republic

Helen North, ed., Interpretations of Plato: A Swarthmore Symposium

(Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1977), Mnemosyne, Suppl. vol. 50: 140

E. J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands.

8. The Rights of Persons in Platos Conception of the Foundations of Justice

H. Tristram Englehardt, Jr., and Daniel Callahan, eds., Morals,

Science and Society (Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.: The Hastings Center, 1978), pp. 172201

Copyright The Hastings Center, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.

9. The Virtuous and the Happy: Irwins Platos Moral Theory

TLS, No. 3, 961, Feb. 24, 1978, pp. 23031

Times Literary Supplement, London.

10. Was Plato a Feminist?

TLS, No. 4,485, March 17, 1989, pp. 276, 28889

Times Literary Supplement, London.

11. Anamnesis in the Meno

Dialogue 4 (1965): 14367

Dialogue, by the Canadian Philosophical Association, Ottawa.

12a. The Third Man Argument in the Parmenides

PR 63 (1954): 31949

In the public domain, as certified by the managing editor, The Philosophical Review, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

12b. Addendum to the Third Man Argument in the Parmenides

R. E. Allen, ed., Studies in Plato's Metaphysics (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965), pp. 26163

Routledge, London.

12c. Addenda to the Third Man Argument: A Reply to Professor Sellars

PR 64 (1955): 43848

In the public domain.

12d. Postscript to the Third Man

PR 65 (1956): 8394

In the public domain.

13. On a Proposed Redefinition of Self-Predication in Plato

Phronesis 26 (1981): 7679

Van Gorcum, Assen, The Netherlands.

14. The Role of Observation in Platos Conception of Astronomy

J. P. Anton, ed., Science and the Sciences in Plato (Delmar, N.Y.: Caravan Books, 1980), pp. 131

Caravan Books, Delmar, N.Y.

15. Disorderly Motion in Platos Timaeus

CQ 33 (1939): 7183

Oxford University Press, Oxford.

16. Creation in the Timaeus: Is It a Fiction?

R. E. Allen, ed., Studies in Platos Metaphysics (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965), pp. 40119

Routledge, London.

17. A Note on the Unmoved Mover

PQ 13 (1963): 24647

Blackwell Publishers, Oxford.

18. Minimal Parts in Epicurean Atomism

Isis 56 (1965): 12147

The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

19. Zeno of Sidon as a Critic of Euclid

Luitpold Wallach, ed., The Classical Tradition: Literary and Historical Studies in Honor of Harry Caplan (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 1966), pp. 14859

Copyright 1966 by Cornell University. Used by permission of the publisher, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y.

Essay (1) was reprinted in Gregory Vlastos, ed., The Philosophy of Socrates (Doubleday and Co., 1971). Essays (12a), (12d), and (15) were reprinted in R. E. Allen, ed., Studies in Plato's Metaphysics (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965). My thanks to Doubleday and to Routledge for permission to print revisions to the essays made in the reprints.

INTRODUCTION

U NLIKE THE FIRST VOLUME of this collection, which contains all Vlastos major discussions of Presocratic philosophy, the present volume contains only a fraction of the authors discussions of Socrates and Plato. His Platonic Studies; Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher; and Socratic Studies comprise much of his major work on these two philosophers. Nevertheless, the present volume fills major gaps in his other collections and shows the wide range of his interest and ability.

The Paradox of Socrates, originally a lecture for a general audience, provides Vlastoss first extended statement on the Socratic Problem, i.e., the problem of how to reconstruct the views of the historical Socrates from the ancient evidence. We must rely on Platos Socratic dialogues as the source for Socrates, for only Plato can account for the data. Platos Socrateswhose conversations Plato fictionally recreates, rather than documentinghas a complex view of how to save Athenian souls. In a discussion that anticipates much of his later interpretation of Socrates, Vlastos sketches salient points of Socrates method and philosophy and in a famous passage criticizes him for a failure of love. This essay is still one of the best introductions to the paradox of Socrates.

In his review of E. N. Platiss Socrates Accusers, Vlastos shows his knowledge of and interest in the prosopography of Socrates accusers. Reviewing Brickhouse and Smiths Socrates on Trial, he dissents from the authors on the important role they assign to the daimonion in Socrates thought. In Socrates on Political Obedience and Disobedience, Vlastos discusses the argument of the Crito and attempts to locate Socrates position between the extremes of passive obedience and political disobedience.

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