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Hegel and Ancient Philosophy Hegel’s debts to ancient philosophy are widely acknowledged by scholars, and by the philosopher himself. Roughly half of his Lectures on the History of Philosophy is devoted to ancient philosophy, and throughout his work Hegel frequently frames his positions in relation to the thinkers and movements of antiquity. This volume presents original essays from leading scholars dealing with Hegel’s debts to ancient thinkers, as well as his own, often problematic readings of ancient philosophy. While around half of the chapters discuss Hegel’s treatment of Aristotle—a topic that has long been at the forefront of scholarship—the other half explore his relationship to such ancient figures as Xenophanes, Anaxagoras, Socrates, Plato, Sextus Empiricus, and the Stoics. The essays challenge a number of longstanding scholarly assumptions regarding, for example, Hegel’s denigration of the “mythical,” his developmentalist approach to ancient thought, his conception of the state in relation to the Greek polis, his “hermeneutic” of the Platonic dialogues, and his use of Aristotelian concepts in arguments concerning the psyche, the body, and their unity and distinction. Glenn Alexander Magee is Professor of Philosophy at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. He is the author of Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition (2001) and The Hegel Dictionary (2011), as well as editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism (2016). He was Vice President of the Hegel Society of America from 2014 to 2016. 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No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-1-138-09497-0 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-10586-4 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by Apex CoVantage, LLC To Geoffrey Reginald Gilchrist Mure Contents ContentsContents Abbreviations and Conventions ix Acknowledgments x Editor’s Introduction 1 1 Xenophanes and Presocratic Thought: A Critical Perspective on Hegel’s Lectures on the History of Philosophy 9 ROBERT METCALF 2 On the Speculative Significance of Anaxagoras in Hegel’s Lectures 25 ANDREW ALEXANDER DAVIS 3 Hegel on the Trial of Socrates and the End of Aesthetic Democracy 39 PAUL T. WILFORD 4 How Hegel Read the Platonic Dialogues 57 JERE O’NEILL SURBER 5 The Platonic Dimension of Hegel’s System 70 LAWRENCE BRUCE-ROBERTSON 6 Mens Divina as Lebendigkeit: Hegel’s Interpretation of Metaphysics 1072b26–27 86 ANDY GERMAN 7 The Way Past the Stripping Argument in Hegel and Aristotle 103 JOSHUA MENDELSOHN viii Contents 8 The Aristotelian Metaphysics of Hegel’s “Soul” 115 ALLEGRA DE LAURENTIIS 9 Parts and Souls 132 ANTÓN BARBA-KAY 10 On Contradiction: Hegel versus Aristotle, Sextus Empiricus, and Kant 147 RICHARD DIEN WINFIELD 11 On Theory and Praxis: Hegel’s Reformulation of an Aristotelian Distinction 161 FEDERICO ORSINI 12 Ethical Life, Politics, and the Actualization of Freedom: Hegel and Aristotle’s Politics 174 ANGELICA NUZZO 13 Hegel’s Critique of Stoicism 189 BERNARDO FERRO Contributors 202 Index 205 Abbreviations and Conventions Abbreviations and ConventionsAbbreviations and Conventions Hegel scholars disagree about which German editions should be used, which translators are superior to others, how key terminology should be rendered into English, and even how Hegel’s works should be cited in end- notes. For the most part, the editor has adopted a laissez faire approach, allowing individual authors to follow their own scholarly convictions. All abbreviations are explained in the endnotes to the articles, but the following are often used: A = addition (Zusatz). Enz. = Enzyklopädie der Philosophischen Wissenschaften. LHP = Lectures on the History of Philosophy. PhG = Phänomenologie des Geistes. PhS = Phenomenology of Spirit. PWH = Lectures on the Philosophy of World History. R = remark (Anmerkung). SL = The Science of Logic. VGP = Vorlesungen über die Geschichte der Philosophie. Werke = (usually) G.W.F. Hegel, Werke in zwanzig Bänden, eds. Eva Moldenhauer and Karl Markus Michel (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1986). WL = Wissenschaft der Logik. The titles of specific books by Hegel have been italicized, but not the names of divisions within his philosophy. Hence, Phenomenology of Spirit is itali- cized, but “Philosophy of Spirit” (a division within the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences) is not. When “Logic” is not italicized it refers to the division within Hegel’s system. When a specific text of the Logic is meant, reference is made to either The Science of Logic or to the Encyclo- pedia Logic (division one of the Encyclopedia). The editor has adopted the familiar custom of capitalizing certain important terms which have a special meaning in Hegel’s philosophy (e.g., Spirit). In general, however, such capi- talization has been used sparingly.

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