Syrianus and the Dialectical Cosmos

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. Preface XI
4. Abbreviations XIII
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Ancient Greek Dialectic in Classical Antiquity
7. Dialectic as True Rhetoric in Plato’s Gorgias 37
8. Socrates’ “Flight into the Logoi”: A Non-Standard Interpretation of the Founding Document of Plato’s Dialectic 57
9. Friendly Fire: Dialectic Struggles between the Megarians and Plato 83
10. Eros on Stage: Dialogue and Dialectic in the Phaedrus 105
11. Dialectic and the Activity of the Soul when Reaching for Being and the Good in Plato’s Theaetetus 184b3–186e12 129
12. Pursuing Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Sophist. The Communion of the Sophistic and Socratic Dialectic in the Sixth Definition of the Sophist: A Reading Based on Proclus’ Interpretation of Dialectic in the Sophist 157
13. On Plato’s Late Dialectic: The Methods of Collection and Division 189
14. Sophistical Demonstrations: A Class of Arguments Entangled with False Peirastic and Pseudographemata 211
15. Part II: Reception, Interpretation, Development and Influence of Ancient Greek Dialectic in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
16. The Services of Dialectic: Dialectic as an Instrument for Metaphysics in Alexander of Aphrodisias 249
17. Aporiai with Multiple Solutions in Alexander of Aphrodisias 277
18. Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Principle of Non-Contradiction: The Argument “from Signification” 287
19. Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception in Origen of Alexandria: From Plato to Christ-Logos 331
20. Exegesis as Philosophy: Notes on Aristotelian Methods in Neoplatonic Commentary 371
21. Syrianus and the Dialectical Cosmos 397
22. Proclus on Plato’s Dialectic: Argument by Performance 413
23. Elenchus and Syllogistic in Olympiodorus of Alexandria 427
24. Simplicius and Aristotle’s Dialectic 441
25. Michael Psellos on Dialectic and Allegory 457
26. Index Locorum 469
27. Index Nominum 493
28. Index Rerum 499
29. Notes on the Contributors 521