Background
Lesher was born on July 10, 1940 in Norfolk, Virginia, United States; the son of Victor Fries Lesher and Miriam (Willing) Lesher.
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
University of Virginia
Rochester, New York, United States
University of Rochester
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
University of Tennessee
College Park, Maryland, United States
University of Maryland
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
University of North Carolina
(The Greek Philosophers represents an number of the most f...)
The Greek Philosophers represents an number of the most famous and influential ancient Greek philosophical texts, along with notes on translation and philosophical content. The texts selected represent a broad cross section of ancient Greek thinking on the nature of reality knowledge and moral virtue. Among the selections are fragments of the writings of the pre-Socratic thinkers Anaximander, Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Democritus, and Anaxagoras; portions of Platos' dialogues Crito, Meno, Symposium, Republic, and Timaeous, and selections from Aristotle's De Anima, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, parts of Animals and Posterior Analytics. The notes on translation assume an elementary knowledge of ancient Greek, (i.e. a familiarity with the basic vocabulary and syntax of Attic Greek) but the discussions of philosophical content assume no prior study of philosophy. Students will work through each of the book's sixteen chapters and acquire a detailed understanding of some of the most fascinating and seminal texts that have come to us from antiquity.
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1998
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In his "Symposium", Plato crafted a set of speeches in praise of love that has influenced writers and artists from antiquity to the present. Early Christian writers read the dialogue's 'ascent passage' as a vision of the soul's journey to heaven. Ficino's commentary on the "Symposium" inspired poets and artists throughout Renaissance Europe and introduced 'a Platonic love' into common speech. Themes or images from the dialogue have appeared in paintings or sketches by Rubens, David, Feuerbach, and La Farge, as well as in musical compositions by Satie and Bernstein. The dialogue's view of love as 'desire for eternal possession of the good' is still of enormous philosophical interest in its own right. Nevertheless, questions remain concerning the meaning of specific features, the significance of the dialogue as a whole, and the character of its influence. This volume brings together an international team of scholars to address such questions.
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2007
Lesher was born on July 10, 1940 in Norfolk, Virginia, United States; the son of Victor Fries Lesher and Miriam (Willing) Lesher.
Lesher received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia in 1962. Four years later he was given a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Rochester.
Lesher began his career as an assistant professor at the University Tennessee in 1966 and held it for a year. In 1967, he was appointed an assistant professor, associate professor and then a professor at the University of Maryland, where he worked until 2007. Since 2007 James has been a professor of the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina.
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1998(In his "Symposium", Plato crafted a set of speeches in pr...)
2007Lesher is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, American Philosophical Association and Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy.
On February 13, 1965 James Lesher married Anne Bibby. They have two children.