Studies in Greek Philosophy, Volume I

At the time of his death, Gregory Vlastos was Professor Emeritus at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley. He was the author of the well-known book Platonic Studies (Princeton). Daniel Graham is Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University and is the author of Aristotle's Two Systems.

"This collection of essays and papers by Gregory Vlastos constitutes a fitting memorial to his remarkable career... It is convenient, useful, and instructive to have them within these volumes. A valuable acquisition."--Choice "This well-edited collection of thirty-six essays is ... a great boon to students of pre-Aristotelian philosophy... The clarity of argument allows for fruitful use by anyone with a keen interest in ancient thought."--Times Literary Supplement

• PREFACE ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii INTRODUCTION xv NOTE ON TEXTUAL CONVENTIONS xxv LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xxvii PART ONE: CONCEPT STUDIES 1. Theology and Philosophy in Early Greek Thought 3 2. Solonian Justice 32 3. Equality and Justice in Early Greek Cosmologies 57 4. Isonomia 89 5. Cornford's Principium Sapientiae 112 PART TWO: HERACLITUS 6. On Heraclitus 127 PART THREE: THE ELEATICS 7. Parmenides' Theory of Knowledge 153 8. Frankel's Wege und Formen fruhgriechischen Denkens 164 9. Raven's Pythagoreans and Eleatics 180 10. Zeno's Race Course: With an Appendix on the Achilles 189 11. A Note on Zeno's Arrow 205 12. A Zenonian Argument Against Plurality 219 13. Zeno of Elea 241 14. Plato's Testimony Concerning Zeno of Elea 264 PART FOUR: THE PLURALISTS 15. The Physical Theory of Anaxagoras 303 16. Ethics and Physics in Democritus 328 17. On the Pre-History in Diodorus 351 INDEX LOCORUM 359 GENERAL INDEX 381