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.

• 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

"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