Institute for the Classical Tradition
ANRW II.36.4, pp. 3056-3229
 
Doxography and Dialectic. The Sitz im Leben of the 'Placita'
by Jaap Mansfeld, Utrecht

Contents

Introduction 3057

I. Ps-Plutarch, Placita IV 2-7, and a Number of Parallel Passages

3065

1. The Substance of the Soul: Incorporeal or Corporeal?

3065

2. The Parts of the Soul

3085

3. Motion v. Rest, Mortality v. Immortality

3089

II. The Seat of the Regent Part

3092

1. The Dihairesis, or Diaphonia, in Aëtius

3092

2. The Dihairesis, or Diaphonia, according to Soranus

3099

III. Using the 'Placita' (Alexander of Aphrodisias and Calcidius)

3108

1. Alexander of Aphrodisias

3108

2. Calcidius

3112

IV. Philo of Alexandria, De somniis I 30ff.

3117

V. Cicero, Tusculanae I 18 ff. and Lucullus II 124

3122

1. The Dialectical Debate

3122

2. The Contrasting Views

3123

3. Types of Questions

3125

4. The Contrasting Views, Continued

3126

5. The Issues of the 'Placita' in the Sequel of Tusc. I

3131

VI. Some Passages in Seneca and Galen

3137

1. Seneca

3137

2. Galen

3141

VII. Lucretius, De rerum natura III, and Diogenes of Oenoanda

3143

1. The status quaestionis in Book I

3143

2. Placita in Book III

3145

3. The Question-Types Again

3149

4. External Origin Refuted

3151

5. Placita in Book I; Lucretius' Dependence on the Doxographies

3153

6. Diogenes of Oenoanda

3154

VIII. Excursus: Arrangements of Principles according to Number

3157

IX. Sextus Empiricus and Aenesidemus

3161

X. Chrysippus and the 'Vetustissima Placita'; Epicurus

3167

1. Chrysippus

3167

2. Epicurus ap. Demetrius Laco

3177

XI. The Date of the 'Vetusta Placita', and the Version Used by Varro

3179

XII. Placita in a Dialectical Discussion in Clement, Stromata VIII

3184

1. Is the Embryo an Animal?

3186

2. Parallels in Theodoret and in the 'Placita'

3187

3. Stray Aëtian Lemmata Reallocated

3190

4. The Placita on the Soul

3192

XIII. Types of Questions: The Theoretical Problem, or Thesis, from Aristotle to Cicero and Aëtius

3193

1. Question-Types in the 'Placita'

3205

2. Dialectic in Aëtius

3206

3. The Question-Types in Cicero's 'De natura deorum'

3207

XIV. The Dihairesis of Philoponus, and Aristotle, De anima A 1-2

3208
Appendix: The Regent Part in Aristotle and Plato 3212
Index locorum 3216
Addendum 3229
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