J.L. Ackrill's work on Plato and Aristotle has had a considerable influence upon ancient philosophical studies in the late twentieth century. This volume collects the best of Ackrill's essays on the two greatest philosophers of antiquity. With philosophical acuity and philological expertise he examines a wide range of texts and topics--from ethics and logic to epistemology and metaphysics--that continue to be in the focus of debate.

Contents

Anamnesis in the Phaedo: Remarks on 73c--75c
Language and Reality in Plato's Cratylus
Plato on False Belief: Theaetetus 187--200
Sumploke Eidon
Plato and the Copula: Sophist 251--259
In Defence of Platonic Division
Aristotle's Theory of Definition: Some Questions on Posterior Analytics
Change and Aristotle's Theological Arguement
Aristotle's Distinction between Energeia and Kinesis
Aristotle's Definitions of Psuche
Aristotle on Eudaimonia
Aristotle on 'Good' and the Catagories
Aristotle on Action
An Aristotelian Argument about Virtue