Hellenistic Philosophy : Introductory Readings

by Inwood, Brad; Gerson, Lloyd P.

• ISBN13: 9780872203785
• ISBN10: 0872203786
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc

Summary

Enlarged to provide nearly a hundred pages of additional material, this new edition offers the first English translation of the account of Stoic ethics by Anus Didysmus, substantial new sources on Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Scepticism, expanded representation of Plutarch and Cicero, and a fuller representation of papyrological evidence. The editors maintain the consistency and accuracy that distinguished their translations in the first edition, while regrouping some material into larger, more thematically connected passages. This edition is further enhanced by a new more spacious page design.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction
Abbreviations
Epicureanism	p. 3
The Ancient Biography of Epicurus	p. 3
The Extant Letters	p. 5
Ancient Collections of Maxims	p. 32
Doxographical Reports	p. 40
The Testimony of Cicero	p. 45
The Testimony of Lucretius	p. 63
The Polemic of Plutarch	p. 65
Short Fragments and Testimonia from Known Works	p. 72
Short Fragments and Testimonia from Uncertain Works	p. 81
Logic and Epistemology	p. 81
Physics and Theology	p. 85
Ethics	p. 95
Stoicism	p. 103
Lives of the Stoics	p. 103
On Philosophy	p. 110
Logic and Theory of Knowledge	p. 111
Physics	p. 132
On Fate	p. 179
Ethics	p. 190
Scepticism	p. 261
Academic Scepticism: Arcesilaus and Carneades	p. 261
Pyrrhonian Scepticism	p. 285
Pyrrho	p. 285
Timon	p. 297
Aenesidemus	p. 300
Later Pyrrhonism: Sextus Empiricus	p. 302
General Principles	p. 302
The Modes	p. 325
Logic	p. 341
Physics	p. 362
Ethics	p. 387
Glossary	p. 399
Philosophers and Philosophical Sources	p. 407
Index of Passages Translated	p. 411
Index	p. 419
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.