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.

• 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 Argument


• 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