Ancient Models of Mind: Studies in Human and

How does god think? How, ideally, does a human mind function? Must a gap remain between these two paradigms of rationality? Such questions exercised the greatest ancient philosophers, including those featured in this book: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Plotinus. This volume encompasses a series of studies by leading scholars, revisiting key moments of ancient philosophy and highlighting the theme of human and divine rationality in both moral and cognitive psychology. The volume is a tribute to A.A. Long, and reflects multiple themes of his own work.

List of contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Plato on aporia and self-knowledge	p. 8
Cross-examining happiness: reason and community in Plato's Socratic dialogues	p. 27
Inspiration, recollection, and mimesis in Plato's Phaedrus	p. 45
Plato's Theaetetus as an ethical dialogue	p. 64
Contemplating divine mind	p. 75
Aristotle and the history of skepticism	p. 97
Stoic selection: objects, actions, and agents	p. 110
Beauty and its relation to goodness in Stoicism	p. 130
How dialectical was Stoic dialectic?	p. 153
Socrates speaks in Seneca, De vita beata 24-28	p. 180
Seneca's Platonism: the soul and its divine origin	p. 196
The status of the individual in Plotinus	p. 216
A.A. Long: publications 1963-2009	p. 225
Bibliography	p. 237
Index	p. 248
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Ancient Models of Mind: Studies in Human and Divine Rationality

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