In spite of many differences in individual aspects, Aristotle stands on the same foundation as this approach and is thereby fundamentally distinguished from every concept of representation or consciousness. That is why the title refers to Plato. Read more

The text reconstructed in the critical edition is the archetype of the tradition, defined as the latest common ancestor of the manuscripts examined for that edition. This sense of archetype should not be confused with the archetype as an especially authoritative or unique exemplar, for our stemma is merely hypothetical and models only a part of the historical reality-the part that is either preserved in or can be reconstructed from our manuscripts. Read more

Ever since Vlastos' " Theology and Philosophy in Early Greek Thought, " scholars have known that a consideration of ancient philosophy without attention to its theological, cosmological and soteriological dimensions remains onesided. Yet, philosophers continue to discuss thinkers such as Parmenides and Plato without knowledge of their debt to the archaic religious traditions. Perhaps our own religious prejudices allow us to see only a " polis religion " in Greek religion, while our modern philosophical openness and emphasis on reason induce us to rehabilitate ancient philosophy by what we consider the highest standard of knowledge: proper argumentation. Yet, it is possible to see ancient philosophy as operating according to a different system of meaning, a different " logic. " Such a different sense of logic operates in myth and other narratives, where the argument is neither completely illogical nor rational in the positivist sense. The articles in this volume undertake a critical engagement with this unspoken legacy of Greek religion. The aim of the volume as a whole is to show how, beyond the formalities and fallacies of arguments, something more profound is at stake in ancient philosophy: the salvation of the philosopher-initiate. Read more

In a new interpretation of Parmenides’ philosophical poem, On Nature, Vishwa Adluri considers Parmenides as a thinker of mortal singularity, a thinker who is concerned with the fate of irreducibly unique individuals. Read more

Modernity’s break with the Middle-Ages is distinguished by a comprehensive turn to a world of individual, empirical experience, a turn that was a repudiation of Plato’s idea that there is a reality of rationality and intellect. Yet already in the Renaissance it was no longer thought necessary to seriously confront the “old” concept of rationality that emanates from Plato. Read more