Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 57

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy volume LVII (Winter 2019) Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy provides, twice each year, a collection of the best current work in the field of ancient philosophy. Each volume features original essays that contribute to an understanding of a wide range of themes and problems in all periods of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, from its beginnings to the middle ages. From its first volume in 1983, OSAP has been a highly influential venue for work in the field, and has often featured essays of substantial length as well as critical essays on books of distinctive importance. Volume LVII contains studies of: the relation between professional skill (technē) and rule (archē) in the refutation of Thrasymachus in Plato’s Republic; the central role of beauty in moral development in Plato’s Phaedrus; the ‘Digression’ in Plato’s Theaetetus and the normative implications of objective measurement; Plato’s response to the Eleatics in his Parmenides and the development of the idea that the Forms must participate in each other; the last definition of ‘sophist’ in Plato’s Sophist, which is shown to be a genuine expertise; the conception of character virtue in Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics and how it contributes to the correctness of decisions in the virtuous person; the nature of practical reasoning and practical intellect in Aristotle’s ethics; Aristotle’s notion of ‘practical truth’; Aristotle’s conception of vice; Epicurus’ hedonism as psychological, but not ethical; ancient Cynicism as a philosophical ‘way of life’; and Jacob Burckhardt’s complex relation to ancient Greek philosophy and its place in Greek cultural history.