A W H Adkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 283129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A W H Adkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | A W H |
| FAMILY NAME | Adkins |
| SIGNATURE | ADKINS A W H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Homeric Ethics
Myth and Philosophy
Plato
My task is to relate Plato's ethical thought to its historical context. For the authors of later chapters in this book, 'historical' will include both the history of philosophy and other aspects or fields of history; but since, in the words of Cicero, Socrates 'was the first [to bring philosophy away from the study of nature] and to lead it to the study of ordinary life, in order to investigate the virtues and vices and good and evil', and I do n…
Gagarin and the "Morality" of Homer
Poetic Craft in the Early Greek Elegists
The End of Culture
Gans demonstrates that human representation language, ritual, art could only have originated as an event taking place on a scene present to the consciousness of its participants. This volume lays the foundation for an important revision of our understanding of cultural achievement
Poetic Craft in the Early Greek Elegists
II. The Connection between Aristotle's Ethics and Politics
The Influence of IsisIsis among the Greeks and Romans. Friedrich Solmsen
Divine and Human Values in Aeschylus’ Seven against Thebes
Laws versus Claims in Early Greek Religious Ethics
Plato and Greek Painting
Theoria versus Praxis in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Republic
Intellectual Experiments of the Greek Enlightenment
"Lucretius 1.136-139 and the Problems of Writing "versus Latini
Polu pragmosune and "Minding One's Own Business"
Merit, Responsibility, and Thucydides
Since other readers of Mr. Creed's recent interesting article may find themselves in a similar puzzlement to my own over certain statements there made, I offer this reply in the hope of providing elucidation. It is clear that someone named Adkins has perpetrated something heinous; but that ‘someone’ manifestly holds views which differ in a number of important respects from my own. The most convenient method of demonstrating this fact would be to …
A Nonteaching Major in Education
Ἀρετή, Τέχνη, Democracy, and Sophists
At Protagoras 316b8 Socrates introduces Hippocrates to Protagoras, and explains why Hippocrates wishes to be his pupil; and for the next twelve pages of the dialogue the sophist, encouraged by Socrates, expounds his views and methods, and explains what Hippocrates may expect to learn from him. The passage is a confused and confusing piece of Greek, and forms the philosophical introduction to one of Plato's more baffling dialogues. The confusions …
From the Many to the One
A History of Greek Philosophy. Volume III
Book Reviews A History of Greek Philosophy. Volume III : The Fifth-Century Enlightenment. By W. K. C. Guthrie. ( Cambridge University Press. 1969. Pp. xiii + 544. £5.00) A. W. H. Adkins A. W. H. Adkins Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 22, Issue 89, October 1972, Pages 357–358, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218312 Published: 01 October 1972
Truth, KoΣmoΣ , and Apeth in the Homeric Poems
A number of scholars have discussed the difficulty of preserving accurately—or at all—information about the past1 in the Greek Dark Ages when the literacy of Minoan/Mycenean Greece had been lost. Such preservation necessarily depended on the memories of the members of the society, especially those of the professional ‘rememberers’, the bards of the oral tradition: in such a society, if knowledge of an event is to be available to future generation…
The Socratic Paradoxes and the Greek Mind
Book Reviews Get access The Socratic Paradoxes and the Greek Mind. By Michael J. O’Brien. ( North Carolina University Press London: Oxford University Press. Pp. xiv + 249. £3.85) A. W. H. Adkins A. W. H. Adkins Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 82, January 1971, Page 74, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217574 Published: 01 January 1971
From the Many to the One
Book Reviews Get access From the Many to the One : A Study of Personality and Views of Human Nature in the Context of Ancient Greek Society, Values and Beliefs. By A. W. H. Adkins. (London : Constable. 1970. Pp. xv + 312. Price £3.50) G. B. Kerferd G. B. Kerferd Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 84, July 1971, Pages 260–261, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218132 Publis…
From the Many to the One. A Study of Personality and Views of Human Nature in the Context of Ancient Greek Society, Values, and Beliefs
Poetic Craft in the Early Greek Elegists
Friendship’ and ‘Self-Sufficiency’ in Homer and Aristotle
This article falls into two parts: the first is an analysis, in the light of my earlier discussions of and of the Homeric usage of and the second, an attempt to show that, as in the case of the effects of Homeric usage persist to a considerable degree in the moral philosophy of Aristotle. In the earlier discussions I have argued that the higher value placed upon the competitive in Greek entails that co-operative relationships, even when valued an…
Poetic Craft in the Early Greek Elegists
II. The Connection between Aristotle's Ethics and Politics
Merit, Responsibility, and Thucydides
Since other readers of Mr. Creed's recent interesting article may find themselves in a similar puzzlement to my own over certain statements there made, I offer this reply in the hope of providing elucidation. It is clear that someone named Adkins has perpetrated something heinous; but that ‘someone’ manifestly holds views which differ in a number of important respects from my own. The most convenient method of demonstrating this fact would be to …
Truth, KoΣmoΣ , and Apeth in the Homeric Poems
A number of scholars have discussed the difficulty of preserving accurately—or at all—information about the past1 in the Greek Dark Ages when the literacy of Minoan/Mycenean Greece had been lost. Such preservation necessarily depended on the memories of the members of the society, especially those of the professional ‘rememberers’, the bards of the oral tradition: in such a society, if knowledge of an event is to be available to future generation…
Gagarin and the "Morality" of Homer
The End of Culture
Gans demonstrates that human representation language, ritual, art could only have originated as an event taking place on a scene present to the consciousness of its participants. This volume lays the foundation for an important revision of our understanding of cultural achievement
Eyxomai EyxΩ9Bh and EyxoΣ in Homer
This paper will discuss the behaviour of and in the Homeric poems. These words are allotted a variety of different ‘meanings’ by the lexicographers. For example, LSJ s.v. I. pray, II. vow, III. profess loudly, boast, vaunt; s.v. I. prayer, II. boast, vaunt, or object of boasting, glory; s.v. I. thing prayed for, object of prayer, II. boast, vaunt. I shall, of course, discuss the whole range of these words; but I begin with some observations on ‘p…
Merit and responsibility
Friendship’ and ‘Self-Sufficiency’ in Homer and Aristotle
This article falls into two parts: the first is an analysis, in the light of my earlier discussions of and of the Homeric usage of and the second, an attempt to show that, as in the case of the effects of Homeric usage persist to a considerable degree in the moral philosophy of Aristotle. In the earlier discussions I have argued that the higher value placed upon the competitive in Greek entails that co-operative relationships, even when valued an…
Enter Plato
Book Reviews Get access Enter Plato : Classical Greece and the origins of social theory. By Alvin W. Gouldner. (New York : Basic Books, 1965 ; London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967. Pp. xiv + 407. Price 55s). A. W. H. Adkins A. W. H. Adkins Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 18, Issue 73, October 1968, Pages 360–361, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217800 Published: 01 October 196…
Eyxomai EyxΩ9Bh and EyxoΣ in Homer
This paper will discuss the behaviour of and in the Homeric poems. These words are allotted a variety of different ‘meanings’ by the lexicographers. For example, LSJ s.v. I. pray, II. vow, III. profess loudly, boast, vaunt; s.v. I. prayer, II. boast, vaunt, or object of boasting, glory; s.v. I. thing prayed for, object of prayer, II. boast, vaunt. I shall, of course, discuss the whole range of these words; but I begin with some observations on ‘p…
Clouds, Mysteries, Socrates and Plato
Scholars have observed that in Aristophanes’ Clouds entrance to the phrontisterion is likened to initiation into the mysteries; but there seems to have been no discussion of the effect that such a comparison would be likely to produce upon an audience of the period. In the present paper I wish to explore this question; and also to consider the relevance of Aristophanes’ words to anything Socrates may himself have said or done, and Plato’s attitud…
The Socratic Paradoxes and the Greek Mind
Book Reviews Get access The Socratic Paradoxes and the Greek Mind. By Michael J. O’Brien. ( North Carolina University Press London: Oxford University Press. Pp. xiv + 249. £3.85) A. W. H. Adkins A. W. H. Adkins Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 82, January 1971, Page 74, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217574 Published: 01 January 1971
From the Many to the One
Book Reviews Get access From the Many to the One : A Study of Personality and Views of Human Nature in the Context of Ancient Greek Society, Values and Beliefs. By A. W. H. Adkins. (London : Constable. 1970. Pp. xv + 312. Price £3.50) G. B. Kerferd G. B. Kerferd Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 84, July 1971, Pages 260–261, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218132 Publis…
From the Many to the One. A Study of Personality and Views of Human Nature in the Context of Ancient Greek Society, Values, and Beliefs
A History of Greek Philosophy. Volume III
Book Reviews A History of Greek Philosophy. Volume III : The Fifth-Century Enlightenment. By W. K. C. Guthrie. ( Cambridge University Press. 1969. Pp. xiii + 544. £5.00) A. W. H. Adkins A. W. H. Adkins Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 22, Issue 89, October 1972, Pages 357–358, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218312 Published: 01 October 1972
Truth, KoΣmoΣ , and Apeth in the Homeric Poems
A number of scholars have discussed the difficulty of preserving accurately—or at all—information about the past1 in the Greek Dark Ages when the literacy of Minoan/Mycenean Greece had been lost. Such preservation necessarily depended on the memories of the members of the society, especially those of the professional ‘rememberers’, the bards of the oral tradition: in such a society, if knowledge of an event is to be available to future generation…
Ἀρετή, Τέχνη, Democracy, and Sophists
At Protagoras 316b8 Socrates introduces Hippocrates to Protagoras, and explains why Hippocrates wishes to be his pupil; and for the next twelve pages of the dialogue the sophist, encouraged by Socrates, expounds his views and methods, and explains what Hippocrates may expect to learn from him. The passage is a confused and confusing piece of Greek, and forms the philosophical introduction to one of Plato's more baffling dialogues. The confusions …
From the Many to the One
Merit, Responsibility, and Thucydides
Since other readers of Mr. Creed's recent interesting article may find themselves in a similar puzzlement to my own over certain statements there made, I offer this reply in the hope of providing elucidation. It is clear that someone named Adkins has perpetrated something heinous; but that ‘someone’ manifestly holds views which differ in a number of important respects from my own. The most convenient method of demonstrating this fact would be to …
A Nonteaching Major in Education
Polu pragmosune and "Minding One's Own Business"
Intellectual Experiments of the Greek Enlightenment
"Lucretius 1.136-139 and the Problems of Writing "versus Latini
Theoria versus Praxis in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Republic
Plato and Greek Painting
Divine and Human Values in Aeschylus’ Seven against Thebes
Laws versus Claims in Early Greek Religious Ethics
II. The Connection between Aristotle's Ethics and Politics
The Influence of IsisIsis among the Greeks and Romans. Friedrich Solmsen
Gagarin and the "Morality" of Homer
Poetic Craft in the Early Greek Elegists
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