John P. Anton ( el, Ιωάννης Π. Αντωνόπουλος); November 2, 1920 – December 10, 2014) was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Greek Philosophy and Culture at the University of South Florida. He was Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens, Honorary Member of the

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, Honorary Member Phi Beta Kappa and a member of the

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. He featured in the ''Who is Who in the World'', the ''Dictionary of International Biography'', the ''Directory of American Scholars''. He received four Honorary Doctorates from: the University of Athens, the University of Patras, the University of Ioannina and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His areas of specialization were classical Greek philosophy,

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, Philosophy of Art, and Metaphysics. He studied at Columbia University and earned his B.S, M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy. In 1973 he was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto II. Anton authored ten books and edited eighteen books, among them ''Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy'' (with A. Preus, five volumes, SUNY Press). He was the editor of the autobiographical work titled ''Upward Panic'' by

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. Professor Anton was the Editor of the ''Twayne Series'' in the late 1980s and early edited Constantine Santas' ''Aristotelis Valaoritis'' in 1976, which was translated into Greek in 2012 by Fagottoe Books. He has published more than 125 articles in various journals, and presented over 250 papers and addresses at various national and international conferences.

Selected writings

*''American Naturalism and Greek Philosophy'', Humanity Books: Amherst, New York, 2005. *''Categories and Experience: Essays on Aristotelian Themes'', Dowling College Press, 1996. *''The Poetry and Poetics of Constantine P. Cavafy: Aesthetic Visions of Sensual Reality'', Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1995. *''Aristotle's Theory of Contrariety'', University Press of America, 1957.

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John Anton's Academia.edu profileUSF profile
1920 births 20th-century American philosophers 21st-century American philosophers American historians of philosophy Philosophers from Florida Columbia College (New York) alumni 2014 deaths Metaphysicians Philosophers of art American scholars of ancient Greek philosophy University of South Florida alumni University of South Florida faculty {{US-philosopher-stub