Reason and Analysis in Ancient Greek Philosophy: Essays in Honor of David Keyt

337 Pages·2013·2.88 MB·English

by  Georgios Anagnostopoulos

Philosophical Studies Series 120
Georgios Anagnostopoulos
Fred D. Miller, Jr. Editors
Reason and
Analysis in Ancient
Greek Philosophy
Essays in Honor of David Keyt
Reason and Analysis in Ancient Greek Philosophy
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Reason and Analysis
in Ancient Greek Philosophy
Essays in Honor of David Keyt
Editors
Georgios Anagnostopoulos Fred D. Miller, Jr.
Department of Philosophy Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation
University of California, San Diego Bowling Green, OH, USA
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Acknowledgments
Preparing this hommage to David Keyt has been a labor of love for the editors and
contributors alike. The volume contains fi fteen essays by sixteen scholars including
students, colleagues, and friends (the latter category being all inclusive!). All of the
authors make important original contributions to the study of ancient Greek phi-
losophy, and we wish to thank them all for agreeing to participate in this project, for
their cooperation with the editing, and for the high quality of their essays. We are
also grateful for their patience and good cheer throughout an unexpectedly pro-
tracted publication process.
The papers by Gerasimos Santas, Nils Rauhut, Mark McPherran, Charles Young,
and Fred D. Miller, Jr. were delivered originally at a conference (aka “the Keytfest”)
held at the University of Washington in Seattle in 2007 commemorating David
Keyt’s fi ftieth year as a professor of philosophy. Kenneth Clatterbaugh, Chair of the
Department of Philosophy at the University of Washington, was very supportive of
the program, and Bev Wessel provided valuable administrative assistance. Daniel
Fisher, a student of David Keyt, offered generous fi nancial support. Richard Parker,
another former student, served as quipster and consummate master of ceremonies.
We are pleased to thank a number of people who have been very helpful with the
editing and publication of this volume including Professor Stephen Hetherington,
the editor of Springer’s Philosophical Studies Series; Ingrid van Laarhoven; Christi
Lue; Ties Nijssen; Hendrikje Tuerlings; Professor Nicholas D. Smith, who helped
to fi nd a suitable publisher for the volume; and an anonymous reviewer who
provided helpful comments. James Dabgotra ably assisted with the fi rst round of
editing, and Pamela Phillips did an excellent job copyediting the entire typescript
and preparing it for the publisher. We also gratefully acknowledge fi nancial support
from the Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation for the original conference and
for the editing of the volume.
Finally, we thank David Keyt for his assistance throughout the planning and
preparation of the volume and especially for his willingness to contribute a fasci-
nating memoir of his academic career which, in addition to delightful anecdotes
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about his encounters with notable scholars, offers illuminating insights into his own
work and also into the recent history of the subdiscipline of ancient philosophy.
With affection and admiration, we the editors and all the contributors dedicate
this volume to David Keyt, in recognition of his major contributions to the study of
ancient philosophy, and on behalf of the many students, colleagues, and friends
whose lives he has touched and enriched over the past half century.
Del Mar, California Georgios Anagnostopoulos
Bowling Green, Ohio Fred D. Miller, Jr.
Contents
Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1
Georgios Anagnostopoulos and Fred D. Miller, Jr.
A Life in the Academy .................................................................................... 11
David Keyt
Moral Psychology in Plato’s Apology ............................................................ 45
Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith
Socrates, the Athenian .................................................................................... 55
Jean Roberts
Socrates on the Impossibility of a Reasonable Politics ................................ 67
Stephen M. Gardiner
Retaliation in the Crito.................................................................................... 91
Merrill Ring
How Virtuous Was Socrates? ......................................................................... 109
Nils Ch. Rauhut
Plato’s Republic as a Vocation ........................................................................ 125
Allan Silverman
Soul, Soul-Parts, and Persons in Plato .......................................................... 147
C.D.C. Reeve
Just City and Just Soul in Plato’s Republic .................................................. 171
Gerasimos Santas
Virtue, Luck, and Choice at the End of the Republic .................................. 197
Mark L. McPherran
The Grounds of Logos: The Interweaving of Forms .................................... 211
Christopher Shields
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