Gregory Vlastos
Biographic Data
| ID | 461618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory Vlastos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory |
| FAMILY NAME | Vlastos |
| SIGNATURE | VLASTOS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 92 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 145 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 89 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1933 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Role of Slavery in Athenian Democracy: An Economic Perspective
Classical Athens is strongly associated with two phenomena: democracy, and slavery.The interaction between these two institutions, seemingly at odds when evaluated by modern standards, reveals a complex web of philosophical, social, and economic relationships.The question of whether or not Athenian democracy was predicated on slavery as an institution has been the subject of scholarly debate for centuries, and no strict answer has been reached.Ho…
Isonomia: Studien Zur Gleichheitsvorstellung Im Griechischen Denken
Studies in Greek Philosophy, Volume I: The Presocratics
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Studies in Greek Philosophy. 1: The Presocratics. 2: Socrates, Plato, and Their Tradition
Socrates on Political Obedience and Disobedience
Studies in Greek Philosophy, Volume II: Socrates, Plato, and Their Tradition
Gregory Vlastos (1907-1991) was one of the twentieth century's most influential scholars of ancient philosophy. Over a span of more than fifty years, he published essays and book reviews that established his place as a leading authority on early Greek philosophy. The two volumes that comprise Studies in Greek Philosophy include nearly forty contributions by this acknowledged master of the philosophical essay. Many of these pieces are now consider…
Socratic studies
Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher
Socratic Studies
This is the companion volume to Gregory Vlastos' highly acclaimed work Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher. Four ground-breaking papers which laid the basis for his understanding of Socrates are collected here, in revised form: they examine Socrates' elenctic method of investigative argument, his disavowal of knowledge, his concern for definition, and the complications of his relationship with the Athenian democracy. The fifth chapter is a ne…
The Socratic elenchus: Method is all
In Plato's earlier dialogues – in all of them except the Euthydemus, Hippias Major, Lysis, Menexenus – Socrates' inquiries display a pattern of investigation whose rationale he does not investigate. They are constrained by rules he does not undertake to justify. In marked contrast to “Socrates” speaking for Plato in the middle dialogues, who refers repeatedly to the “method” (μέθoδoς) he follows (either in general or for the special purpose of so…
Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosophers
Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher
Journal Article Critical Notices Get access Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher. By Gregory Vlastos. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xii + 334. Price £35.00.) C.C.W. Taylor C.C.W. Taylor Corpus Christi College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 167, April 1992, Pages 228–234, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220218 Published: 01 April 1992
Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher
Happiness and virtue in Socrates' moral theory
ARETĒ, EUDAIMONIA : THEIR TRANSLATION The key terms in the title pose problems of translation. On “virtue” for aretē I need not linger at all, for whatever may be the general usage of this word, Socrates own use of it to designate precisely what we understand by moral virtue must have been apparent throughout this book. Any lingering doubt on this point in my readers' mind may be resolved by referring them to the fact that whenever he brings the …
Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher
This long-awaited study of the most enigmatic figure of Greek philosophy reclaims Socrates' ground-breaking originality. Written by a leading historian of Greek thought, it argues for a Socrates who, though long overshadowed by his successors Plato and Aristotle, marked the true turning point in Greek philosophy, religion and ethics. The quest for the historical figure focuses on the Socrates of Plato's earlier dialogues, setting him in sharp con…
Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher
Socratic Irony
‘Irony,’ says Quintilian, is that figure of speech or trope ‘in which something contrary to what is said is to be understood’ ( contrarium ei quoddicitur intelligendum est ). His formula has stood the test of time. It passes intact into Dr Johnson's dictionary (‘ mode of speech in which the meaning is contrary to the words’ [1755]). It survives virtually intact in ours:Irony is the use of words to express something other than, and especially the …
Happiness and virtue in Socrates' moral theory
Socrates' Disavowal of Knowledge
In Plato's earliest dialogues, when Socrates says he has no knowledge, does he or does he not mean what he says? The standard view has been that he does not. What can be said for this interpretation is well said in Gulley, 1968: Socrates' profession of ignorance is “an expedient to encourage his interlocutor to seek out the truth, to make him think that he is joining with Socrates in a voyage of discovery” (p. 69). More recently the opposite inte…
Happiness and virtue in Socrates' moral theory
I Άρετή, εὐδαιμονία: their translation The key terms in my title pose problems of translation with which I can only deal in the most cursory manner. On ‘virtue’ for ἀρετἡ I need not linger at all, for whatever may be the general usage of ἀρετἡ, Socrates' use of it is fixed beyond doubt by the fact that whenever he brings the general concept under scrutiny – as when he debates its teachability in the Protagoras and the Meno – he assumes without ar…
I. The Historical Socrates and Athenian Democracy
The Socratic Elenchus
On a Proposed Redefinition of "Self-predication" in Plato
How shall we read those perplexing sentences Justice is just, Beauty is beautiful, and like which have occasioned so much controversy in discussions of Plato's metaphysics in recent decades? Shall we assume that they are ordinary predications, asserting their predicate-term of Form named by subject-term? Or shall we hold, more charitably, that they are identities?2 Or should we, as charitably, opt for a third reading which understands them to ass…
The Role of Observation in Plato’s Conception of Astronomy
Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher
I. The Historical Socrates and Athenian Democracy
Socratic Irony
‘Irony,’ says Quintilian, is that figure of speech or trope ‘in which something contrary to what is said is to be understood’ ( contrarium ei quoddicitur intelligendum est ). His formula has stood the test of time. It passes intact into Dr Johnson's dictionary (‘ mode of speech in which the meaning is contrary to the words’ [1755]). It survives virtually intact in ours:Irony is the use of words to express something other than, and especially the …
Socrates' Disavowal of Knowledge
In Plato's earliest dialogues, when Socrates says he has no knowledge, does he or does he not mean what he says? The standard view has been that he does not. What can be said for this interpretation is well said in Gulley, 1968: Socrates' profession of ignorance is “an expedient to encourage his interlocutor to seek out the truth, to make him think that he is joining with Socrates in a voyage of discovery” (p. 69). More recently the opposite inte…
The Philosophy of Socrates: A Collection of Critical Essays
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Minimal Parts in Epicurean Atomism
Reasons and Causes in the Phaedo
The Third Man Argument in the Parmenides
"Socratic Knowledge and Platonic "Pessimism
A note on Zeno's Arrow
1 I shall deal only with the main topics, and with these far from exhaustively. For more thorough treatments of the subject the reader may consult works listed in the bibliography at the end of this article (to which reference is made in text and notes by the name of author only). For more extensive references to the scholarly literature see M. Untersteiner, 142 ff. Readers who may be familiar with the account of the Arrow in the chapter on Zeno …
Anamnesis in the Meno: Part One: The Data of the Theory
In the Meno we have a chance, rare in Greek philosophy, to compare a philosophical theory with the data which make up its ostensible evidence. Meno asks if there is any way Socrates can show him that "learning" is recollecting. Socrates offers to produce the proof on the spot. Meno will see the slave-boy learning, and this will show that he was recollecting. I wish to make the most of this opportunity to examine the presented data before consider…
Ethics and Physics in Democritus
The Disorderly Motion in the Timaios
So much has been written on this vexed issue, that one hesitates to reopen it. Yet one has no other choice when one finds scholars accepting as generally agreed a view which rests on altogether insufficient evidence. I propose, therefore, to examine the main grounds on which recent authorities interpret the disorderly motion of Tm 30a, 52d–53b, and 69b as a mythical symbol. They are four: I. That the Timaios is a myth; II. The testimony of the Ac…
A Note on "Pauline Predications" in Plato
For to say this to imply that (3) Snow hot always false:' there could never have been an occasion on which snow would be hot; hence (2) would be bound to be always true. Now in Platonic ontology nouns, fire, snow, and adjectives, hot, cold, get their meaning by referring to their respective Forms. Some scholars have doubted or denied that things like Fire and Snow have a place in authorized gallery of Platonic Forms. But it not an eccentric view …
Socrates on Acrasia
I DEALT WITH THIS TOPIC briefly twelve years ago in an introduction to the Protagoras,' designed for the use of beginners in philosophy. The medium tempted me to simplifications which I have since had occasion to regret. But I have no great confidence that if I had then dealt with the topic in a more leisurely and thorough way I would have managed to avoid the blemishes of that earlier treatment. For I would not have had the benefit of the discus…
The Presocratic Philosophers
Ethics and Physics in Democritus
The Role of Slavery in Athenian Democracy: An Economic Perspective
Classical Athens is strongly associated with two phenomena: democracy, and slavery.The interaction between these two institutions, seemingly at odds when evaluated by modern standards, reveals a complex web of philosophical, social, and economic relationships.The question of whether or not Athenian democracy was predicated on slavery as an institution has been the subject of scholarly debate for centuries, and no strict answer has been reached.Ho…
Plato's "Third Man" Argument (Parm. 132A1-B2): Text and Logic
Plato’s “Third Man” Argument (Parm. 132A1–B2) :x Text And Logic Get access Gregory Vlastos Gregory Vlastos Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 77, October 1969, Pages 289–301, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217841 Published: 01 October 1969
Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir
This moving and authoritative portrait of Ludwig Wittgenstein--one of the most powerful influences on contemporary philosophy--treats Wittgenstein the man, his unusual teaching methods, and his modes of thought and expression as seen through the eyes of Norman Malcolm, first as a student and later as a close personal friend. This new edition contains the complete text of fifty-seven letters written by Wittgenstein to Malcolm over a period of elev…
Of Sovereignty in Church and State
On the Pre-History in Diodorus
A Biologist on ReligionThe Great Amphibium. Joseph Needham
Preface to Religion . Bernard Iddings Bell
The Disorderly Motion in the Timaios
So much has been written on this vexed issue, that one hesitates to reopen it. Yet one has no other choice when one finds scholars accepting as generally agreed a view which rests on altogether insufficient evidence. I propose, therefore, to examine the main grounds on which recent authorities interpret the disorderly motion of Tm 30a, 52d–53b, and 69b as a mythical symbol. They are four: I. That the Timaios is a myth; II. The testimony of the Ac…
Slavery in Plato's Thought
Plato's Law of Slavery in Its Relation to Greek Law
The Genesis of Plato's Thought
The Religious Foundations of Democracy, Fraternity and Equality
Religious Foundations of Democracy, Fraternity and Liberty
Plato's Earlier Dialectic
Ethics and Physics in Democritus
Parmenides' Theory of Knowledge
Ethics and Physics in Democritus
On the Pre-History in Diodorus
Equality and Justice in Early Greek Cosmologies
Plato's Theory of Man
Greek Studies
An Index to Aristotle
The Philosophy of Anaxagoras
The Physical Theory of Anaxagoras
Our Religious Traditions
The Human Community
The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays
On Tyranny
A Soviet History of Philosophy
Ethics and Society
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