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Investigates what change is, according to Aristotle, and how it affects his conception of being. Mark Sentesy argues that change leads Aristotle to develop first-order metaphysical concepts such as matter, potency, actuality, sources of being, and the teleology of emerging things.

Offers a fresh interpretation of Plato's dialogues as dramatic texts whose philosophy is not so much a matter of doctrine as it is a dynamic, non-dogmatic, and open-ended practice of engaging others in agonistic dialogue. Robert Metcalf argues that Plato understands philosophy as essentially agonistic.

Offers a systematic exploration of the meanings of logos throughout Aristotle's work. This volume claims that the basic meaning is "gathering", in the sense of a relation that holds its terms together without isolating them or collapsing one to the other. This basic meaning applies to logos in the sense of human language as well.

In this interpretive commentary on Theaetetus, Gregory Kirk makes a major con-tribution to scholarship on Plato by emphasizing the relevance of the interpersonal dynamics between the interlocutors for the interpretation of the dialogue's central arguments about knowledge.

In Essential Vulnerabilities, Deborah Achtenberg contests Emmanuel Levinas's idea that Plato is a philosopher of freedom for whom thought is a return to the self. Instead, Plato, like Levinas, is a philosopher of the other. Nonetheless, Achtenberg argues, Plato and Levinas are different.

Offers a collection of essays on a range of themes and figures spanning the period extending from the Pre-Socratics to Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic thinkers. These essays engage with the ancient texts directly, focusing attention on concepts that emerge as urgent in the readings themselves and then clarifying those concepts interpretively.

Offers a collection of essays on a range of themes and figures spanning the period extending from the Pre-Socratics to Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic thinkers. These essays engage with the ancient texts directly, focusing attention on concepts that emerge as urgent in the readings themselves and then clarifying those concepts interpretively.