Contemporary Essays on Greek Ideas: The Kilgore Festschrift

by Robert M. Baird, William F. Cooper, Elmer H. Duncan, Stuart E. Rosenbaum

Overview

Presents a testimony to the creative impact of W J Kilgore's teaching on the minds of his students. This title offers a tribute to Dr Kilgore's intellectual depth, philosophical rigor, and steadfastness of character.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780918954466
Publisher:	Baylor University Press
Publication date:	04/01/1987
Pages:	334
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 1.21(d)
Lexile:	1420L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

How Philosophy Misuses Its Past
Joel M. Smith

Participation and Imitation in Plato’s Metaphysics
Carl G. Vaught

Episteme as Doxa in the Theaetetus
David J. DeMoss

Socrates and Abraham
George W. Harris

Medicine and the Patient-Physician Relationship in Ancient Greece
S. Kay Toombs

The Cratylus and How Words Are Used
James H. Ware

Either/Or
M. G. Yoes Jr.

Is the Concept of "Human Nature" Indispensable to Ethics?
Richard W. Eggerman

The Role of Pleasure in Aristotle’s Ethics
Ray Lanfear

Aristotle on the Distinction Between Praxis and Poiesis
Perry C. Mason

Aristotle on the Predicate "Good"
Michael Beaty

Preferential Treatment and Compensatory Justice
Ruth Bradfute Heizer

What Is Practical Philosophy?
Miodrag Lukich

The Harm of Killing: An Epicurean Perspective
Stephen E. Rosenbaum

How the Hellenic Doctrine of Recurrence Became a Fable
Chris Burckhardt

Constructing the Concept of God
Houston A. Craighead

The Dream Argument: Pyrrhonian and Cartesian Skepticism
Steven Luper-Foy

Scholarship and Citizenship in the Humanistic Tradition
James F. Veninga

Writings of William J. Kilgore

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