John Michael Rist

John Michael Rist (born July 6, 1936 in Romford ) is a British-Canadian philosopher , philosophy historian and classical philologist .

Life

From 1944 to 1954, Rist attended Brentwood School. From 1956 to 1959 he studied at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge (Minor, then Senior Scholar) (1957 Classical Preliminaries in Cambridge , Class 1, 1958 Classical Tripos Part 1, Class 1 1959 Classical Tripos Part 2 (specialization: ancient philosophy ), Class 1 1963 MA ( Cantab. )). He taught at the University College of Toronto (1959–1963 Lecturer in Greek, 1963–1965 Assistant Professor of Greek, 1965–1969 Associate Professor of Greek). From 1969 to 1980 he taught as Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto. From 1980 to 1983 he was Regius Professor of Classics at the University of Aberdeen . From 1983 to 1996 he was Professor of Classics and Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Since 1998 he has been visiting professor at the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum . From 2012 to 2014 he was Kurt Pritzl OP Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America .

His main research interests are the Stoa , Epicurus , Plato , Aristotle , Platonism , Neoplatonism , Christian Platonism, Augustine and ancient ethics .

Honors

• 1976 member of the Royal Society of Canada
• 2002 Honorary Doctorate from the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce

Fonts (selection)

• Eros and Psyche: Studies in Plato, Plotinus and Origen. Toronto 1964. Italian edition (Vita e Pensiero series, Milan 1995).
• Plotinus: The Road to Reality. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1967. Italian edition with new introduction (Melangolo, Genua 1995).
• Stoic Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1969. Spanish translation with new introduction (Critica, Barcelona 1995).
• Epicurus: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1972. Italian edition (Mursia 1978); Catalan translation (Santa Coloma de Queralt, 2008).
• (Ed.) The Stoics. California University Press, 1978.
• On the Independence of Matthew and Mark. Cambridge, NTS Monograph Series 32, 1978.
• Human Value: A Study of Ancient Philosophical Ethics (= Philosophia Antiqua 40). Leiden 1982.
• Platonism and Its Christian Heritage. London 1985.
• The Mind of Aristotle. Toronto 1989.
• Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized. Cambridge 1994. Italian edition (Vita e Pensiero, Milan, 1997).
• Man, Soul and Body: Essays in Ancient Thought from Plato to Dionysius. London 1996.  
• On Inoculating Moral Philosophy against God . Marquette University Press, Milwaukee 2000, ISBN 0-87462-167-4 .
• What is truth? From the Academy to the Vatican . Cambridge 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-88901-8 .
• Plato's moral realism. The discovery of the presuppositions of ethics . Washington, DC 2012, ISBN 978-0-8132-1980-6 .
• Augustine deformed. Love, sin, and freedom in the western moral tradition . New York 2014, ISBN 978-1-107-07579-5 .

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