Gregory Vlastos

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Gregory Vlastos ( Greek Γρηγόριος Βλαστός; born July 27, 1907 in Istanbul , † October 12, 1991 in Berkeley , California ) was an American philosopher . His work extended to the philosophy of the ancient world , especially Plato and Aristotle .

Life

The son of a Scottish woman and a Greek father, he attended the American Robert College in Istanbul and studied at the Chicago Theological Seminary theology . In 1931 he received his doctorate from Harvard under Alfred North Whitehead on God as a metaphysical concept . After teaching at Queen's University in Kingston , Ontario for several years , he went to Cornell University in 1948 . From 1955 to 1976 he was Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton , then Mills Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley until 1987.

Vlastos died in 1991 before completing a new collection of essays on Socrates' philosophy .

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Vlastos was instrumental in fueling the resurgent interest of the American philosophical world in Plato, along with John Lloyd Ackrill and GEL Owen . In particular, his interpretation of Socrates as a positive conviction thinker in Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher is considered to be groundbreaking. As a congregational Christian , he dealt primarily with Christian-socialist alternatives to the capitalist model of society in the 1930s, but after the Second World War he no longer spoke publicly on this topic.
Numerous students of Vlastos are now themselves important scholars in the field of ancient philosophy, such as Terence Irwin , Richard Kraut , Frank A. Lewis , Paul Woodruff and Alexander Nehamas .

Honors

In 1990, Vlastos received a MacArthur Foundation grant . He was twice awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship ; in addition, since 1967 he was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , a corresponding member of the British Academy and a member of the American Philosophical Society .

Fonts

Monographs and collections of own articles

  • Christian Faith and Democracy , Association Press, 1939
  • Platonic Studies , Princeton University Press, 1973, ISBN 0-691-07162-4
  • Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher , Cornell University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-8014-9787-6
  • Socratic Studies , Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-521-44735-6
  • Studies in Greek Philosophy Volume I: the Presocratics , Princeton University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-691-03310-2
  • Studies in Greek Philosophy; Volume II: Socrates, Plato, and Their Tradition , Princeton University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-691-03311-0
  • Plato's Universe , Parmenides Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1-930972-13-X

Editorships

  • Towards the Christian Revolution - with RBY Scott, Willett, Clark & ​​Company, 1936.
  • Plato, a Collection of Critical Essays: I, Metaphysics and Epistemology; II, Ethics, Politics, and Philosophy of Art and Religion Anchor Books / Doubleday and Company, 1971
  • Philosophy of Socrates: a Collection of Critical Essays (Modern Studies in Philosophy), University of Notre Dame Press, 1980, ISBN 0-268-01537-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b To In memoriam essay ( Memento of the original of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aps-pub.com
  2. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Book of Members ( PDF ). Retrieved April 11, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Vlastos, Gregory
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1991
Place of death Berkeley