TY - JOUR
T1 - On the Road from Athens to Thebes Again
T2 - Some Thirteenth-Century Thinkers on Converse Relations
AU - Hansen, Heine
PY - 2016/5/3
Y1 - 2016/5/3
N2 - If Sophroniscus is the father of Socrates, then Socrates is the son of Sophroniscus. If Socrates is similar to Plato, then Plato is similar to Socrates. But how many relations does Sophroniscus and Socrates being so related involve? How many does Plato and Socrates being thus related? Is there a difference between the two cases? These are questions that have featured prominently in discussions of relations in recent years, but they are by no means new. Focusing on a text by the later Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Kilwardby (d. 1279), this paper explores some of the replies and main arguments advanced by a number of philosophers working in the Latin west in the mid-to-late thirteenth century.
AB - If Sophroniscus is the father of Socrates, then Socrates is the son of Sophroniscus. If Socrates is similar to Plato, then Plato is similar to Socrates. But how many relations does Sophroniscus and Socrates being so related involve? How many does Plato and Socrates being thus related? Is there a difference between the two cases? These are questions that have featured prominently in discussions of relations in recent years, but they are by no means new. Focusing on a text by the later Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Kilwardby (d. 1279), this paper explores some of the replies and main arguments advanced by a number of philosophers working in the Latin west in the mid-to-late thirteenth century.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Medival Philosophy
U2 - 10.1080/09608788.2015.1055230
DO - 10.1080/09608788.2015.1055230
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0960-8788
SP - 468
EP - 489
JO - British Journal for the History of Philosophy
JF - British Journal for the History of Philosophy
ER -