Passionate Mind

assoc. Prof. Barry David Ph.D.

doi:10.5771/9783896658586

Summary

Passionate Mind: Essays in Honor of John M. Rist pays tribute to the academic work of a prolific and distinguished scholar in Classics and Philosophy who has authored some 18 books and over 200 scholarly articles and reviews. After graduating from Cambridge University in 1959, Professor Rist began his professional career immediately thereafter at the University of Toronto, where he was appointed Professor Emeritus in 1997. Before finishing his career in 2017, he also held appointments at the University of Aberdeen, Cambridge University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum in Rome, and the Catholic University of America.This Festschrift, containing entries from an international team of scholars who are Professor Rist’s friends and/or former colleagues (including many senior scholars) and students, celebrates his academic work with freshly written, insightful and, in some instances, ground-breaking essays representing three of the fields in which he has made significant and enduring contributions. Therefore, after an introduction featuring Professor Rist’s perceptive and entertaining retrospective on his service to academia, Passionate Mind includes sections on Ancient Philosophy, Patristics and Biblical Criticism, and Ethics. While the essays in the Ancient Philosophy section consider topics in Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Marcus Aurelius, and Plotinus, those in the Patristics and Biblical Criticism segment study subjects found mostly in the works of Augustine of Hippo, but also in Gregory of Nyssa and the Bible. Lastly, the Ethics section includes essays analyzing key matters in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, the relationship between Rist’s and MacIntryre’s approaches to ethics, and the dynamics of a broadly Augustinian approach to sexual mores. Following in Professor Rist’s footsteps, the essays in this volume are insightful, provocative, and promise to make contributions in their fields.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-3-89665-857-9
ISBN-Online: 978-3-89665-858-6
Publisher: Academia, Baden-Baden
Language: English
Pages: 414
Product type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 8
Passionate Mind’s Contributors (listed in alphabetical order): No access Pages 9 - 16
Passionate Mind: Essays In Honor Of John M. Rist No access Pages 17 - 36
Abbreviations No access Pages 37 - 40
1. John M. Rist, in Lieu of an Introduction No access Pages 41 - 52 John C. McCarthy
2. John M. Rist
  1. John M. Rist
    1. 1. Personal No access John M. Rist
    2. 2. Education No access John M. Rist
    3. 3. Employment No access John M. Rist
    4. 4. Awards, Fellowships No access John M. Rist
    5. 5. Administrative Positions No access John M. Rist
  2. John M. Rist
    1. (a) Books No access John M. Rist
    2. (b) Articles (Those starred appear in the second Variorum reprint, 1996). No access John M. Rist
3. On The Trail Of Animal Academicum (1956–2013) No access Pages 71 - 90 John M. Rist
1. Denis O’Brien
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    1. 1. ‘Or’ versus ‘and’ No access Denis O’Brien
    2. 2. When is a contradiction not a contradiction? No access Denis O’Brien
    3. 3. Words and their meaning No access Denis O’Brien
  2. Denis O’Brien
    1. 4. A predicate complete in itself No access Denis O’Brien
    2. 5. Plato’s use of the same No access Denis O’Brien
    3. 6. The elliptical use of a transitive verb No access Denis O’Brien
    4. 7. ‘Duplication’ of the verb as part of the predicate No access Denis O’Brien
    5. 8. Plato’s use of the same No access Denis O’Brien
    6. 9. From being to non-being No access Denis O’Brien
    7. 10. The Stranger’s innovation No access Denis O’Brien
    8. 11. The Stranger’s paradox: movement and sameness No access Denis O’Brien
    9. 12. The Stranger’s paradox: movement and being No access Denis O’Brien
    10. 13. Negative and positive uses of the verb No access Denis O’Brien
    11. 14. The climax of the argument No access Denis O’Brien
    12. 15. An impossible relationship No access Denis O’Brien
  3. Denis O’Brien
    1. 16. Cornford’s cumbersome translation No access Denis O’Brien
    2. 17. ‘Being’ and ‘Existence’ No access Denis O’Brien
    3. 18. ‘Lost in translation’ No access Denis O’Brien
    4. 19. A lost simplicity No access Denis O’Brien
    5. 20. A brute fact of the English language No access Denis O’Brien
    6. 21. Cornford’s raw asymmetry No access Denis O’Brien
  4. Denis O’Brien
    1. 22. From ‘being’ to ‘non-being’ No access Denis O’Brien
    2. 23. An impossible ambiguity No access Denis O’Brien
    3. 24. Cornford’s repeated tactic No access Denis O’Brien
    4. 25. A lucid simplicity No access Denis O’Brien
  5. Denis O’Brien
    1. 26. On the brink of an abyss No access Denis O’Brien
    2. 27. A change of syntax No access Denis O’Brien
    3. 28. Cornford’s confession of failure No access Denis O’Brien
    4. 29. A linguistic naïveté No access Denis O’Brien
    5. 30. An impossible confusion No access Denis O’Brien
  6. Denis O’Brien
    1. 31. Cornford’s summary No access Denis O’Brien
    2. 32. A repeated participle No access Denis O’Brien
    3. 33. The Stranger’s dismissal of a ‘contrary of being’ No access Denis O’Brien
    4. 34. An unreal distinction No access Denis O’Brien
    5. 35. ‘Non-existence’ and ‘non-being’ No access Denis O’Brien
  7. Denis O’Brien
    1. 36. The fiction of a ‘ form of non-existence’ No access Denis O’Brien
    2. 37. A disturbing silence No access Denis O’Brien
    3. 38. An elusive prey No access Denis O’Brien
    4. 39. Cornford’s seeming inconsistency No access Denis O’Brien
  8. Denis O’Brien
    1. 40. Parmenides’ non-being No access Denis O’Brien
    2. 41. Plato’s non-being No access Denis O’Brien
    3. 42. The Stranger’s distinction No access Denis O’Brien
  9. Denis O’Brien
    1. 43. The repeated quotation No access Denis O’Brien
    2. 44. Cornford’s misleading translation of the same No access Denis O’Brien
    3. 45. Shifting sands No access Denis O’Brien
  10. Denis O’Brien
    1. 46. Owen has a point No access Denis O’Brien
    2. 47. Cornford’s shadow world No access Denis O’Brien
    3. 48. The syntactical foundation of Plato’s distinction between ‘being’ and ‘non-being’ No access Denis O’Brien
  11. Denis O’Brien
    1. 49. Cornford’s ‘unintelligible’ English No access Denis O’Brien
    2. 50. ‘There is…’ ‘There isn’t…’ No access Denis O’Brien
    3. 51. An English ‘is’ No access Denis O’Brien
  12. Denis O’Brien
    1. 52. Quine’s qualms No access Denis O’Brien
    2. 53. The golden rule of the lexicographer and the grammarian No access Denis O’Brien
2. Arthur Madigan
  1. Received Opinions about Dialectic No access Arthur Madigan
  2. Dialectic in NE 9.4 and EE 7.6 No access Arthur Madigan
  3. Received Opinions Reconsidered No access Arthur Madigan
3. What kind of Stoic are you? The case of Marcus Aurelius No access Pages 155 - 180 Brad Inwood
4. John Dillon
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  2. II No access John Dillon
  3. III No access John Dillon
5. Lloyd P. Gerson
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1. Enrico Peroli
  1. I. PLATO CHRISTIANUS? No access Enrico Peroli
  2. II. PHILOSOPHY No access Enrico Peroli
  3. III. THE ONTOLOGY OF FINITENESS No access Enrico Peroli
2. Barry David
  1. I.) Introduction. No access Barry David
  2. II.) Analyzing Augustine’s Argument in civ. Dei 8.6. No access Barry David
  3. III.) Conclusion. No access Barry David
3. Luigi Alici
  1. 1. Auctoritas and ratio No access Luigi Alici
  2. 2. Autonomy and heteronomy No access Luigi Alici
  3. 3. Civitas Dei peregrina No access Luigi Alici
  4. 4. Love and justice No access Luigi Alici
4. Augustine’s Criticism of Philosophers in De Trinitate 4, and Its Epistemological Implications No access Pages 283 - 296 Giovanni Catapano
5. Ronald K. Tacelli
  1. I: The Problem No access Ronald K. Tacelli
  2. II: Dead Ends No access Ronald K. Tacelli
  3. III: Toward the Light No access Ronald K. Tacelli
1. Robert Sokolowski
  1. 1. The order of the books No access Robert Sokolowski
  2. 2. Kinds of agents in NE 7 No access Robert Sokolowski
  3. 3. The range of human wishing and responsibility No access Robert Sokolowski
  4. 4. The Aristotelian array No access Robert Sokolowski
  5. 5. How Rist reads Aristotle No access Robert Sokolowski
2. Edward Halper
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  3. III No access Edward Halper
  4. IV No access Edward Halper
  5. V No access Edward Halper
3. Thomas M. Osborne
  1. 1.) Introduction: No access Thomas M. Osborne
  2. Thomas M. Osborne
    1. 2a.) Description of the Problem No access Thomas M. Osborne
    2. 2b.) Plato’s Response No access Thomas M. Osborne
    3. 2c.) Contemporary Relevance No access Thomas M. Osborne
  3. 3.) Conclusion No access Thomas M. Osborne
4. Miles Hollingworth
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