PRESOCRATICS AND PLATO This page has been intentionally left blank. PRESOCRATICS AND PLATO: Festschrift at Delphi in Honor of Charles Kahn Papers presented at the Festschrift Symposium in Honor of Charles Kahn Organized by the HYELE Institute for Comparative Studies European Cultural Center of Delphi June 3rd–7th, 2009 Delphi, Greece Edited by RichaRd PatteRson, Vassilis KaRasmanis, and aRnold heRmann Las Vegas | Zurich | Athens PARMENIDES PUBLISHING Las Vegas | Zurich | Athens © 2012 Parmenides Publishing All rights reserved. This edition published in 2012 by Parmenides Publishing in the United States of America ISBN soft cover: 978-1-930972-75-9 ISBN e-Book: 978-1-930972-76-6 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data t Delphi in honor of Charles Kahn Presocratics and Plato : festschrift a : papers presented at the festschrift symposium in honor of Charles Kahn organized by the Hyele Institute for Comparative Studies European Cultural Center of Delphi, June 3rd/7th, 2009, Delphi, Greece / edited by Richard Patterson, Vassilis Karasmanis, and Arnold Hermann. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and indexes. ISBN 978-1-930972-75-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-930972-76-6 (e-book) 1. Plato--Congresses. 2. Pre-Socratic philosophers--Congresses. I. Kahn, Charles H. II. Patterson, Richard, 1946- III. Karasmanis, V. (Vassilis) IV. Hermann, Arnold. B395.P73 2012 182--dc23   2012033336 Typeset in Adobe Garamond and OdysseaUBSU (Greek) Printed and lay-flat bound by USBookPrint | www.usbookprint.com 1-888-PARMENIDES www.parmenides.com Table of Contents Foreword ix Richard Patterson Preface: Thoughts for Delphi xiii Charles Kahn Charles Kahn: A Chronological Bibliography xix I. The PresocraTIcs 1. Heraclitus on the Sun 3 Enrique Hülsz Piccone 2. “The Light of Day by Night”: nukti phaos, Said of the Moon in Parmenides B14 25 Alexander P. D. Mourelatos 3. Empedocles at Panopolis and Delphi 59 Diskin Clay 4. The Cosmogonic Moment in the Derveni Papyrus 79 Richard McKirahan 5. Will the Real Critias Please Stand Up? 111 John M. Dillon 6. Aristoxenus’ Account of Pythagoras 125 Carl A. Huffman II. PlaTo: sTudIes In IndIvIdual dIalogues 7. Plato’s Theory of Change at Phaedo 70–71 147 David Sedley 8. Virtue and Law in the Republic 165 Julia Annas 9. Dialectic and the Second Part of Plato’s Parmenides 183 Vassilis Karasmanis 10. Plato’s Eleatic Challenge and the Problem of Self-predication in the Parmenides 205 Arnold Hermann 11. Negation and Not-Being: Dark Matter in the Sophist 233 Lesley Brown 255 12. Fifth-Century Bugbears in the Timaeus Sarah Broadie 13. False Pleasures: Philebus 36c–40e 291 Satoshi Ogihara 14. Pleasure, Pain, and “Anticipation” in Plato’s Laws, Book I 311 Susan Sauvé Meyer 15. Socrates in Plato’s Laws 329 Christopher J. Rowe III. Themes In PlaTo 16. Slavery as a Philosophical Metaphor in Plato and Xenophon 351 Anthony A. Long 17. Forms, Functions, and Structure in Plato 367 Dorothea Frede 18. From Being an Image to Being What-Is-Not 391 Paul Kalligas 19. The Method of Hypothesis and Its Connection to the Collection and Division Strategies 411 Tomás Calvo 20. Word and Image in Plato 429 Richard Patterson Iv. PlaTo and Beyond 21. Aristotle on the Power of Perception: Awareness, 459 Self-Awareness and the Awareness of Others Aryeh Kosman 22. Sympathy, Awareness, and Belonging to Oneself in Plotinus 491 D. M. Hutchinson 23. Moral Conscience: Contributions to the Idea in Plato and Platonism 511 Richard Sorabji About the Contributors 531 Bibliography 539 Index Locorum 565 General Index 583 This page has been intentionally left blank. Foreword Richard Patterson A Festschrift celebrating the work of Charles Kahn might well include an enormous diversity of papers, on topics reaching far beyond the Pre-Socratics and Plato. Nonetheless it is for his work on the Pre-Socratics and Plato that Charles is best known. Indeed, it is difficult to think of anyone else who has achieved such distinction in both of these daunting areas of philosophical scholarship. For this reason, and also to lend coherence to the collection, the papers in this volume focus for the most part on these two topics. Charles Kahn is a native of New Iberia, Louisiana, “Queen City of the Bayou Teche” (distinguished also as the birthplace of Tobasco sauce). At age seven, following the death of his father, Charles entered his Wanderjahre, moving from New Iberia to Los Angeles, then to Tulsa and, at the age of sixteen, to the University of Chicago, in the archonship of John Maynard Hutchins. (Hutchins was convinced that American high school was largely a waste of time, and that bright teenagers would be just as well off without it.) After graduation, Charles remained at the University of Chicago for graduate work and an MA from the Committee on Social Thought. Having by this time developed a primary interest in philosophy, and in Ancient Greek philosophy in particular, and being convinced that scholarship in this area required serious study of Greek and Latin, Charles spent two years at the Sorbonne, practicing the traditional “explication de texte,” which he would in due time impart to graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania. He then returned to the United States to complete a Doctorate in Classics at Columbia University (1958). His dissertation became Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology (Columbia University Press, 1982; reprinted by Hackett, 1994), now a “classic” in its own right. Degree — ix — Richard Patterson in hand, he joined the faculty in Classics at Columbia, where he taught until 1965. It was then that Philosophy called—from Philadelphia, and in the voice of the distinguished and just-retiring Plato scholar, Glenn Morrow, who persuaded Charles to join the Philosophy Department at the University of Pennsylvania. There Charles has taught for the last 47 years, serving as Chair from 1975–78, and contributing energetically to related programs such as the Graduate Group in Classical Studies at Penn, the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, where he served as Visiting Professor in 1974–75 and as a member of the managing committee from 1964–2000, and the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, serving as President from 1976–78. From a still broader perspective, Charles has long been a mainstay of the international community of Platonists, developing scholarly ties and warm friendships around the globe (along with a knowledge of where the best food and drink are to be found, from Athens to Tokyo), and serving as North American Representative of the International Plato Society from 1992–95. These decades also saw an accumulation of honors, including research grants from the American Council of Learned Societies (63/64 and 84/85), the National Endowment for the Humanities (1974/75 and 1990/91), and the Guggenheim Foundation (1979/80). In 2000 Charles was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. Meanwhile work on his second book had begun not long after Charles’s arrival at Penn. As it turned out, the book was quite ambitious in scope—a linguistic and philosophical study of questions concerning being and the verb “to be” that are fundamental to the background, and often the foreground, of Greek philosophy. The work was scheduled to appear in Reidel’s series of monographs, The Foundations of Language, most volumes of which had been rather narrowly focused and quite slender. By contrast, The Verb “Be” in Ancient Greek grew into a magisterial work tracing the evidence for and history of the main uses of the verb from Homer on, in a considerably more nuanced manner than had been customary among students of Greek philosophy. In the process, Charles put on the map important uses of “to be” that philosophers and classi- cists—as opposed to the linguists Charles was studying at the — x —