Essays in Philosophy: Ancient

Stanley Rosen, Prof. Emer. in Philosophy from Boston University, is a heralded author of numerous works in ancient and medieval philosophy. Other works of Stanley Rosen published by St. Augustine’s Press: Plato’s Symposium, Plato’s Sophist, Plato’s Statesman, The Ancients and the Moderns, Nihilism, G.W.F. Hegel, The Limits of Analysis, The Question of Being, and Metaphysics in Ordinary Language.Martin Black completed his Ph.D. on Plato’s depiction of the Socratic turn under the supervision of Stanley Rosen at Boston University in 2009. He has published articles on Plato’s Symposium, the crisis of modernity, and self-knowledge, and is preparing a manuscript on the Socratic turn and a translation of several Platonic dialogues. He teaches ancient and medieval philosophy and the ancient Greek language and literature at Suffolk University.

• 1. Chicago Days2. Straussian Hermeneutics3. Thales: The Beginning of Philosophy4. Parmenides D3: Commentary on A. A. Long, “Parmenides on Thinking Being”5. Socrates and Alcibiades6. Philosophy and Poetry in Plato7. Dynamis, Energeia and the Megarians8. Review Essay: Chasing the Chimaera9. Is Metaphysics Possible?10. Socrates’ Dream11. Return to the Origin: Reflections on Plato and Contemporary Philosophy12. The Production of Ideas13. Leo Strauss and the Quarrel Between the Ancient and the Moderns14. An Introduction to the Philebus15. Techne and the Origins of Modernity16. Platonic Hermeneutics: On the Interpretation of A Platonic Dialogue

This collection testifies to the remarkable range of Stanley Rosen’s learning and reflection in the history of philosophy, both ancient and modern. The publication of these essays, with all their speculative depth and richness, is truly a great philosophical benefit. It will throw new light on Rosen’s thinking on many topics in metaphysics and political philosophy and on his readings of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kojève, Strauss, and other figures. – Richard Velkley, Tulane University