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.

Andrea Nightingale (Edited by), David Sedley (Edited by)

9781107525955, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 14 May 2015

262 pages
22.8 x 15.3 x 1.5 cm, 0.4 kg

"....nice collection.... recommendable without any doubt.... some papers would be useful for students and beginners because of their general presentations. Others are of interest for specialists and researchers...."
--Robert Zaborowski, Ph.D., University of Warmia and Mazury & Polish Academy of Sciences, Metapsychology Online Reviews

How does God think? How, ideally, does a human mind function? Must a gap remain between these two paradigms of rationality? Such questions exercised the greatest ancient philosophers, including those featured in this book: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Plotinus. This volume encompasses a series of studies by leading scholars, revisiting key moments of ancient philosophy and highlighting the theme of human and divine rationality in both moral and cognitive psychology. It is a tribute to Professor A. A. Long, and reflects multiple themes of his own work.

1. Plato on aporia and self-knowledge Andrea Wilson Nightingale
2. Cross-examining happiness: reason and community in the Socratic dialogues of Plato Sara Ahbel-Rappe
3. Inspiration, recollection, and mimesis in Plato's Phaedrus Kathryn A. Morgan
4. Plato's Theaetetus as an ethical dialogue David Sedley
5. Divine contemplating mind Allan Silverman
6. Aristotle and the history of Skepticism Alan Code
7. Stoic selection: objects, actions, and agents Stephen White
8. Beauty and its relation to goodness in Stoicism Richard Bett
9. How dialectical was Stoic dialectic? Luca Castagnoli
10. Socrates speaks in Seneca, De vita beata 24-28 James Ker
11. Seneca's Platonism: the soul and its divine origin Gretchen Reydams-Schils
12. The status of the individual in Plotinus Kenneth Wolfe
A. A. Long: Publications 1963–2009
Index locorum
General index.

Subject Areas: Psychology [JM], Philosophy of religion [HRAB], Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 [HPCA], Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA]