Hegel And Ancient Philosophy: A Re-examination

Hegel and Ancient Philosophy Hegel’s debts to ancient philosophy are widely acknowledged by scholars, and by the philosopher himself. Roughly half of his Lectures on the History of Philosophy is devoted to ancient philosophy, and throughout his work Hegel frequently frames his positions in relation to the thinkers and movements of antiquity. This volume presents original essays from leading scholars dealing with Hegel’s debts to ancient thinkers, as well as his own, often problematic readings of ancient philosophy. While around half of the chapters discuss Hegel’s treatment of Aristotle—a topic that has long been at the forefront of scholarship—the other half explore his relationship to such ancient figures as Xenophanes, Anaxagoras, Socrates, Plato, Sextus Empiricus, and the Stoics. The essays challenge a number of longstanding scholarly assumptions regarding, for example, Hegel’s denigration of the “mythical,” his developmentalist approach to ancient thought, his conception of the state in relation to the Greek polis, his “hermeneutic” of the Platonic dialogues, and his use of Aristotelian concepts in arguments concerning the psyche, the body, and their unity and distinction. Glenn Alexander Magee is Professor of Philosophy at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. He is the author of Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition (2001) and The Hegel Dictionary (2011), as well as editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Western Mysticism and Esotericism (2016). He was Vice President of the Hegel Society of America from 2014 to 2016. Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy egel on Beauty H Julia Peters Pragmatism, Kant, and Transcendental Philosophy Edited by Gabriele Gava and Robert Stern An Interpretation of Nietzsche’s On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life Anthony K. Jensen Hegel’s Philosophical Psychology Edited by Susanne Herrmann-Sinai and Lucia Ziglioli Nietzsche and the Philosophers Edited by Mark T. Conard Schopenhaur’s Fourfold Root Edited by Jonathan Head and Dennis Vanden Auweele Nietzsche’s Psychology of Ressentiment Revenge and Justice in On the Genealogy of Morals Guy Elgat The Kantian Foundation of Schopenhauer’s Pessimism Dennis Vanden Auweele Nietzsche’s Constructivism A Metaphysics of Material Objects Justin Remhof Hegel and Ancient Philosophy A Re-Examination Edited by Glenn Alexander Magee Hegel and Ancient Philosophy A Re-Examination Edited by Glenn Alexander Magee First published 2018 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa busines