This book, a collection of specially written essays by leading international scholars, reexamines ancient ideas of reason and rationality. The application of changing notions of rationality down the ages has led to consistent misinterpretation of standard ancient philosophical texts: the distinguished contributors here redress the balance, clarifying how the great thinkers of antiquity themselves conceived of rationality.

• Introduction


• 1: Dorothea Frede: The Philosophical Economy of Plato's Psychology: Rationality and Common Concepts in the Timaeus


• 2: David Furley: What Kind of Cause is Aristotle's Final Cause?


• 3: John Cooper: Reason, Moral Virtue, and Moral Value


• 4: Jacques Brunschwig: Rule and Exception: On the Aristotelian Theory of Equity


• 5: Michael Frede: Aristotle's Rationalism


• 6: Jonathan Barnes: Grammar on Aristotle's Terms


• 7: Gisela Striker: Perfection and Reduction in Aristotle's Prior Analytics


• Epilogismos: An Appraisal


• 9: Julia Annas: Scepticism, Old and New


• 10: G. E. R. Lloyd: Theories and Practices of Demonstration in Galen


• 11: Mario Mignucci: Ammonius on Future Contingent Propositions


• 12: Richard Sorabji: Rationality


• Index