Book Description
This book-length treatment provides a unified account of what is distinctive in the ancient approach to the self-refutation argument.
Author : Luca Castagnoli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521896312
This book-length treatment provides a unified account of what is distinctive in the ancient approach to the self-refutation argument.
Author : Jakob Leth Fink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139789287
The period from Plato's birth to Aristotle's death (427–322 BC) is one of the most influential and formative in the history of Western philosophy. The developments of logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and science in this period have been investigated, controversies have arisen and many new theories have been produced. But this is the first book to give detailed scholarly attention to the development of dialectic during this decisive period. It includes chapters on topics such as: dialectic as interpersonal debate between a questioner and a respondent; dialectic and the dialogue form; dialectical methodology; the dialectical context of certain forms of arguments; the role of the respondent in guaranteeing good argument; dialectic and presentation of knowledge; the interrelations between written dialogues and spoken dialectic; and definition, induction and refutation from Plato to Aristotle. The book contributes to the history of philosophy and also to the contemporary debate about what philosophy is.
Author : M. F. Burnyeat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521750725
The first of two volumes collecting the published work of one of the greatest living ancient philosophers, M.F. Burnyeat.
Author : Mi-Kyoung Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199262229
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Author : Dominic Scott
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 39,48 MB
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199289972
Maieusis pays tribute to the highly influential work of Myles Burnyeat, whose contributions to the study of ancient philosophy have done much to enhance the profile of the subject around the world. What is distinctive about his work is his capacity to deepen our understanding of the relation between ancient and modern thought, and to combine the best of contemporary philosophy - its insights as well as its rigour - with a deep sensitivity to classical texts. Nineteen of the world's leading experts in the field examine a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, with a particular focus on Plato. Topics include Socrates and the nature of philosophy, the different aspects of eros in the Symposium, Republic and Phaedrus, the Phaedo's arguments for immortality, wars and warriors in Plato, and the different aspects of the cave allegory in the Republic. .
Author : Attila Németh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 19,16 MB
Release : 2017-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1351800663
Epicurus on the Self reconstructs a part of Epicurean ethics which only survives on the fragmentary papyrus rolls excavated from an ancient library in Herculaneum, On Nature XXV. The aim of this book is to contribute to a deeper understanding of Epicurus’ moral psychology, ethics and of its robust epistemological framework. The book also explores how the notion of the self emerges in Epicurus’ struggle to express the individual perspective of oneself in the process of one’s holistic self-reflection as an individual psychophysical being.
Author : Raymond Barfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,79 MB
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 113949709X
From its beginnings, philosophy's language, concepts and imaginative growth have been heavily influenced by poetry and poets. Drawing on the work of a wide range of thinkers throughout the history of Western philosophy, Raymond Barfield explores the pervasiveness of poetry's impact on philosophy and, conversely, how philosophy has sometimes resisted or denied poetry's influence. Although some thinkers, like Giambatista Vico and Nietzsche, praised the wisdom of poets, and saw poetry and philosophy as mutually beneficial pursuits, others resented, diminished or eliminated the importance of poetry in philosophy. Beginning with the famous passage in Plato's Republic in which Socrates exiles the poets from the city, this book traces the history of the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry through the works of thinkers in the Western tradition ranging from Plato to the work of the contemporary thinker Mikhail Bakhtin.
Author : Robert C. Bartlett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 22,7 MB
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 022639428X
It was Nietzsche who first identified the similarities between the radical sophistry of antiquity and the contemporary relativism that has come to characterize modern thought. The anti-foundationalism of contemporary thought can be said to have been born with the Sophists, and, of all the Sophists who have come down to us, Protagoras is the most famous and challenging of them. Robert Bartlett s masterful book is the first to examine Plato s Protagoras and Theaetetus together to uncover what lies at the heart of Protagoras teaching, both its moral and political components and its theoretical and epistemological groundings. His superb exegesis of these two dialogues allows one to see more clearly the power of radical relativism: its strengths and its deficiencies. Bartlett notes that political philosophy has been supplanted in the modern era either by the study of the history of political philosophy or by relativism. Although "Understanding Political Philosophy and Sophistry" can certainly be taken as an example of the former, it is much more than that. It seeks to uncover what Socrates, in responding to that teaching, begins to reveal of his own understanding and characteristic activity. It helps us begin to understand, in other words, the phenomenon of philosophy, not just as a system of thought, but as Socrates lived it."
Author : Sextus (Empiricus)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 37,1 MB
Release : 2005-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521531955
A new and accurate translation of an important work of ancient Greek scepticism.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 11,72 MB
Release : 2016-07-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 900432304X
Strategies of Polemics in Greek and Roman Philosophy brings together papers written by specialists in the field of ancient philosophy on the topic of polemics. Despite the central role played by polemics in ancient philosophy, the forms and mechanisms of philosophical polemics are not usually the subject of systematic scholarly attention. The present volume seeks to shed new light on familiar texts by approaching them from this neglected angle. The contributions address questions such as: What is the role of polemic in a philosophical discourse? What were the polemical strategies developed by ancient philosophers? To what extent did polemics contribute to the shaping of important philosophical doctrines or standpoint? Contributors are: Mauro Bonazzi, André Laks, Robert Lamberton, Carlos Lévy, Daniel Marković, Jozef Müller, Charlotte Murgier, Christopher Shields, Naly Thaler, Voula Tsouna, and Sharon Weisser.