Studies in Early Greek Philosophy: A Collection of Papers and One Review

438 Pages·2018·1.72 MB·English

by  Mansfeld

StudiesinEarlyGreekPhilosophy
Philosophia Antiqua
A Series of Studies on Ancient Philosophy
EditorialBoard
C.J.Rowe(Durham)
K.A.Algra(Utrecht)
F.A.J.deHaas(Leiden)
J.Mansfeld(Utrecht)
D.T.Runia(Melbourne)
Ch.Wildberg(Princeton)
PreviousEditors
J.H.Waszink†
W.J.Verdenius†
J.C.M.VanWinden†
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Studies in Early Greek Philosophy
ACollectionof PapersandOneReview
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JaapMansfeld
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction 1
1 Detheologization
AëtianChaptersandTheirPeripateticBackground 6
2 InsightbyHindsight
IntentionalUnclarityinPresocraticProems 40
3 BotheringtheInfinite
AnaximanderintheNineteenthCenturyandBeyond 52
4 Anaximander’sFragment:AnotherAttempt 136
5 Anaximenes’Soul 167
6 MinimaParmenidea
ExegeticalNoteson28B1.22–23a,B2.1–5,B6.3,andB8.38–41DK 177
7 ParmenidesfromRighttoLeft 185
8 ParmenidesonSensePerceptioninTheophrastusand
Elsewhere 203
9 HeraclitusonSoulandSuper-Soul
WithanAfterthoughtontheAfterlife 218
10 AlcmaeonandPlatoonSoul 251
11 TheBodyPolitic
AëtiusonAlcmaeononIsonomiaandMonarchia 262
12 AristotleonAnaxagorasinRelationtoEmpedoclesin
MetaphysicsA 286
vi contents
13 »DasverteufelteLastschiff«
Philolaus44B12DK 294
14 DemocritusonPoetry
Fragments68B18andB21DK 296
15 OutofTouch
PhiloponusasaSourceforDemocritus 301
16 ThePresocraticPhilosophers
ADiscussionofaNewHandbook 318
17 ProtagorasonEpistemologicalObstaclesandPersons 332
18 AristotleonSocrates’ContributionstoPhilosophy 353
19 HermannDiels(1848–1922) 368
IndexLocorumPotiorum 407
IndexNominumetRerum 422
Acknowledgements
Thechaptersinthisvolumehavebeenreprintedfromtheearlierpublications
listedbelow.Permissionofthepublishers,allofwhomarementioned,isgrate-
fullyacknowledged.
1 J. Mansfeld, ‘Detheologization. Aëtian chapters and their Peripatetic
background’,inRhizomata.AJournalforAncientPhilosophyandScience.
Ed.byBodnár,István/Corcilius,Klaus/Gregoric,Pavel/Ierodiakonou,
Katerina.Bd.1.Berlin:deGruyter2013,330–362.Reprintedwithpermis-
sionofthepublisher.
2 J. Mansfeld, ‘Insight by Hindsight. Intentional Unclarity in Presocratic
Proems’,BulletinoftheInstituteofClassicalStudies(BICS)40(1995),225–
232.ChichesterUK:JohnWileyandSons.Reprintedwithpermissionof
thepublisher.
3 J.Mansfeld,‘BotheringtheInfinite.AnaximanderintheNineteenthCen-
tury and Beyond’, Antiquorum Philosophia. An International Journal, 3
(2009),8–68.Roma:FabrizioSerraEditore.Reprintedwithpermissionof
thepublisher.
4 J. Mansfeld, ‘Anaximander’s Fragment: Another Attempt’, Phronesis. A
JournalforAncientPhilosophy56(2011),1–32.LeidenandBoston:E.J.Brill.
Reprintedwithpermissionofthepublisher.
5 J.Mansfeld,‘Anaximenes’Soul’.Translatedfrom‘DezielvanAnaximenes’,
NederlandsTheologischTijdschrift69(FSPietervanderHorst),187–194.
Zoetermeer:Boekencentrum.Reprintedwithpermissionofthepublish-
er.
6 J. Mansfeld, ‘Minima Parmenidea. Exegetical notes on B1.22–23a, B2.1–
5, B6.3, and B8.38–41 DK’, Mnemosyne.AJournalof ClassicalStudies 58
(2005),554–560.LeidenandBoston:E.J.Brill.Reprintedwithpermission
ofthepublisher.
7 J. Mansfeld, ‘Parmenides from Right to Left’, Études platoniciennes 12
(2015), http://etudesplatoniciennes.revues.org/699. Paris: Société d’É-
tudesPlatoniciennes.Reprintedwithpermissionofthepublisher.
8 J.Mansfeld,‘ParmenidesonSensePerceptioninTheophrastusandElse-
where’.Notyetpublished.
9 J.Mansfeld,‘HeraclitusonSoulandSuper-Soul,WithanAfterthoughton
theAfterlife’,Rhizomata.AJournalforAncientPhilosophyandScience.Ed.
byBodnár,István/Corcilius,Klaus/Gregoric,Pavel/Ierodiakonou,Kate-
rina.Bd.3.Berlin:deGruyter(2015),62–93.Reprintedwithpermissionof
thepublisher.
viii acknowledgements
10 J.Mansfeld,‘AlcmaeonandPlatoonSoul’,Étudesplatoniciennes11(2014),
http://etudesplatoniciennes.revues.org/508. Paris: Société d’Études Pla-
toniciennes.Reprintedwithpermissionofthepublisher.
11 J. Mansfeld, ‘The Body Politic. Aëtius on Alcmaeon on isonomia and
monarchia’, in Harte, V. / Lane, M. eds., Politeia in Greek and Roman
Philosophy, FS Malcolm Schofield, Cambridge 2013, 78–95. Cambridge
UniversityPress,Cambridge.Reprintedwithpermissionof thepublish-
er.
12 J.Mansfeld,‘AristotleonAnaxagorasinRelationtoEmpedoclesinMeta-
physicsA’,Philologus.ZeitschriftfürantikeLiteraturundihreRezeption.Ed.
byEhlers,Widu-WolfgangandSeidensticker,Bernd.155(2011),361–366.
Berlin:AkademieVerlag/Berlin:deGruyter.Reprintedwithpermission
ofthepublisher.
13 J. Mansfeld, ‘»Das verteufelte Lastschiff«. Philolaus 44B12 DK’, Mnemo-
syne.AJournalofClassicalStudies69(2016),298–299.LeidenandBoston:
E.J.Brill.Reprintedwithpermissionofthepublisher.
14 J. Mansfeld, ‘Democritus on Poetry. Fragments 68B18 and B21 DK’, orig-
inaltitle‘Democritus,Fragments68B18and21DK’, Mnemosyne.AJour-
nalof ClassicalStudies57(2004),484–488.LeidenandBoston:E.J.Brill.
Reprintedwithpermissionofthepublisher.
15 J. Mansfeld, ‘Out of Touch. Philoponus as a Source for Democritus’, in
Brancacci,A.andMorel,P.-M.eds.,Democritus:Science,theArts,andthe
CareoftheSoul.PhilosophiaAntiquaVol.102,LeidenandBoston:E.J.Brill
2007,277–292.Reprintedwithpermissionofthepublisher.
16 J.Mansfeld,‘ThePresocraticPhilosophers.ADiscussionofaNewHand-
book’, review article in Mnemosyne. A Journal of Classical Studies 68
(2014),331–343.LeidenandBoston:E.J.Brill.Reprintedwithpermission
ofthepublisher.
17 J.Mansfeld,‘ProtagorasonEpistemologicalObstaclesandPersons’,inKer-
ferd, G.B. ed., The Sophists and their Legacy. Proceedings of the Fourth
International Colloquium on Ancient Philosophy Held in Cooperation
withProjektgruppeAltertumswissenschaftenderThyssenstiftungatBad
Homburg 26th August–1st September 1979. Hermes Einzelschriften 44,
Wiesbaden:Steiner,38–53.Reprintedwithpermissionofthepublisher.
18 J.Mansfeld,‘AristotleonSocrates’ContributionstoPhilosophy’,inAlesse,
F.,Aronadio,F.,Dalfino,M.C.,Simeoni,L.andSpinelli,E.eds.,Anthropine
sophia: Studi di filologia e storiografia filosofica in memoria di Gabriele
Giannantoni. Elenchos, Collana di testi e studi sul pensiero antico 50.
Napoli:Bibliopolis2008,337–350.Reprintedwithpermissionofthepub-
lisher.
acknowledgements ix
19 J. Mansfeld, ‘Hermann Diels (1848–1922)’, in Primavesi, O. and Luchner,
K. eds., The Presocratics from the Latin Middle Ages to Hermann Diels.
PhilosophiederAntikeBd.26.Stuttgart:FranzSteinerVerlag2011,389–
420.Reprintedwithpermissionofthepublisher.