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OXFORD STUDIES IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY This page intentionally left blank OXFORD STUDIES IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY EDITOR: DAVID SEDLEY VOLUME XXXI winter 2006 (cid:1) (cid:1) GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwidein Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Witho¶cesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress intheUKandincertainothercountries PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork ãExceptwhereotherwisestated,OxfordUniversityPress,2006 Themoralrightsoftheauthorshavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) Firstpublished2006 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethesameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Oxfordstudiesinancientphilosophy.— Vol.xxxi(2006).—Oxford:ClarendonPress; NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,1983– v.;22cm.Annual. 1.Philosophy,Ancient—Periodicals. B1.O9 180.{5—dc.19 84–645022 AACR2 MARC-S TypesetbyJohnWas‹,Oxford PrintedinGreatBritain onacid-freepaperby BiddlesLtd,King’sLynn,Norfolk ISBN0–19–920421–7 978–0–19–920421–2 ISBN0–19–920422–5(Pbk.) 978–0–19–920422–9(Pbk.) 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 ADVISORY BOARD ProfessorJonathanBarnes,Universite‹deParis-Sorbonne,ParisIV ProfessorMichaelFrede,UniversityofAthens ProfessorA.A.Long,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley ProfessorMarthaNussbaum,UniversityofChicago Professor Richard Sorabji, King’s College, University of London, andWolfsonCollege,Oxford ProfessorGiselaStriker,HarvardUniversity Contributions and booksfor review shouldbe sent to the Editor, ProfessorD.N.Sedley,Christ’sCollege,Cambridge,cb23bu,UK. Hecanbecontactedbye-mailondns1Äcam.ac.uk. Contributors are asked to observe the ‘Notes for Contributors to Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy’,printed at the end ofthis volume. Up-to-date contact details, the latest version of Notes to Con- tributors,andpublicationschedulescanbecheckedontheOxford StudiesinAncientPhilosophywebsite: www.oup.co.uk/philosophy/series/osap This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Socrates’ DemandforDefinitions 1 MICHAELN. FORSTER The Evolutionof Eiro»neiain Classical GreekTexts: Why Socratic Eiro»neiaisNotSocratic Irony 49 MELISSA LANE A DefenceofDogmatisminthe Interpretationof Plato 85 JOHN BEVERSLUIS TheRidiculousnessofBeingOvercome byPleasure: Protagoras352b1–358d 4 113 DAVID WOLFSDORF ThePortrait of Socratesin Plato’sSymposium 137 WILLIAMJ. PRIOR Speakingwith the Same Voice as Reason: Personification inPlato’s Psychology 167 RACHANAKAMTEKAR Plato’s Prometheanism 203 CHRISTINE J. THOMAS TheBadisLast but DoesNotLast: Aristotle’s MetaphysicsΘ9 233 & EMILYCATHERINE KATZ RONALD POLANSKY LivinginDoubt:Carneades’PithanonReconsidered 243 SUZANNE OBDRZALEK SomeCautionaryRemarksonthe ‘is’/‘teaches’Analogy 281 JOHN MALCOLM Archytas Unbound:A Discussion of Carl A. Hu·man, ArchytasofTarentum 297 ANDREWBARKER viii Contents With Friends,‘moreisgoingonthanmeets theeye’: A DiscussionofTerry PennerandChristopherRowe, Plato’sLysis 323 R.M. DANCY Plato inTu•bingen:A DiscussionofKonradGaiser, Gesammelte Schriften 349 WOLFGANG-RAINERMANN IndexLocorum 401 SOCRATES’ DEMAND FOR DEFINITIONS MICHAEL N. FORSTER in thisarticleIwouldliketoo·eraninterpretationofacentralas- pectofthephilosophyofthehistoricalSocrates:hisdemandforde- finitionsofethicalterms.(Acompanionarticletofollow,‘Socrates’ ProfessionofIgnorance’,will o·era closelyinterconnectedinter- pretationofthehistoricalSocrates’professionofignorance.) It is, of course, a vigorouslydisputed question whether we are in a positionto arrive at conclusionsabout the historical Socrates at all, and if soby which methods.1 Ishall sidestep that largeand probablyendlessdebatehere.Butmyviewofthematterismoreor lessthesameasLacey’s: There is no royal road to a knowledge of Socrates, anymore than there is justification for throwing up our hands and treating him as a myth. The early Plato is rightly regarded as our main source, but no source can be trusted or ignored entirely, and no source can be assumed to be equally reliablethroughout. Wesimplyhave togoabout itthe hardway ãMichaelN.Forster2006 IwouldliketoexpressdeepgratitudetothelateArthurAdkins(UniversityofChi- cago),JohnCooper(PrincetonUniversity),VassilikiKindi(UniversityofAthens), RichardKraut (Northwestern University), Ian Mueller(University of Chicago), AlexanderNehamas(Princeton University), andDavidSedley (Cambridge Uni- versity) forcommentsonearlierdraftsofthisarticlewhichhelpedmetoimprove itinvariousways.Alsotothefollowingaudienceswholistenedandrespondedto versionsofitdeliveredastalks:UniversityofChicago,AncientPhilosophyWork- shop;UniversityofIllinoisatChicago,DepartmentofPhilosophy;AnatoliaCollege, Thessaloniki,DepartmentofPhilosophy.Needlesstosay,noneofthesepartiesbears anyresponsibilityforthearticle’spositionsorshortcomings. 1 To mention two of the more extreme positions in this area: E. Dupre‹el, La Le‹gendesocratique etlessources dePlaton(Brussels, 1922),andC.H.Kahn,Plato andtheSocraticDialogue(Cambridge,1996),taketheSocrateswhomwefindinthe ancientsourcestobelittlemorethanaliteraryfiction,whereasJ.Burnetregards himasahistoricalfigurewhosepersonality,views,andlifearefaithfullycaptured bythePlatonicdialogues.

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Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback. "Unique value as a collection of outstan
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