Ancient Models of Mind : Studies in Human and Divine Rationality

Leading scholars explore the theme of human and divine rationality in ancient cognitive and moral psychology. Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1 Plato on aporia and self-knowledge; Chapter 2 Cross-examining happiness: Reason and community in Plato's Socratic dialogues; Chapter 3 Inspiration, recollection, and mimsis in Plato's Phaedrus; Chapter 4 Plato's Theaetetus as an ethical dialogue; Chapter 5 Contemplating divine mind; Chapter 6 Aristotle and the history of skepticism; Chapter 7 Stoic selection: Objects, actions, and agents; Chapter 8 Beauty and its relation to goodness in Stoicism; Chapter 9 How dialectical was Stoic dialectic? Chapter 10 Socrates speaks in Seneca, De vita beata 24-28Chapter 11 Seneca's Platonism: The soul and its divine origin; Chapter 12 The status of the individual in Plotinus; A.A. Long: publications 1963-2009; Bibliography; Index