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The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-12-19
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

A full account of the philosophy of the Greek and Roman worlds from the last days of Aristotle (c. 320 BC) until 100 BC. Hellenistic philosophy, for long relatively neglected and unappreciated, has over the last decade been the object of a considerable amount of scholarly attention. Now available in paperback, this volume is the first general reference work to pull the subject together and present an overview. The time has come for a general reference work which pulls the subject together and presents an overview. The History is organised by subject, rather than chronologically or by philosophical school, with sections on logic, epistemology, physics and metaphysics, ethics and politics. It has been written by specialists but is intended to be a source of reference for any student of ancient philosophy, for students of classical antiquity and for students of the philosophy of later periods. Greek and Latin are used sparingly and always translated in the main text.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
PART I INTRODUCTION
Sources
Jaap Mansfeld
Why so much has been lost
3(2)
Primary sources
5(1)
Secondary sources
6(7)
Quellenforschung
13(3)
Genres
16(1)
Doxography
17(2)
On sects
19(4)
Successions
23(2)
Biography
25(1)
Fragments
26(3)
Tradition and reception
29(2)
Chronology
Tiziano Dorandi
Introduction
31(1)
The Academy
31(4)
The Peripatos
35(2)
The Stoa
37(6)
The Garden
43(3)
Pyrrhonists
46(1)
Minor Socratics
47(1)
Survey
48(7)
Appendix: Successions of scholarchs
53(2)
Organization and structure of the philosophical schools
55(716)
Tiziano Dorandi
PART II LOGIC AND LANGUAGE
Introduction
Jonathan Barnes
A map of logic
65(2)
The value of logic
67(2)
The history of Hellenistic logic
69(8)
Logic
Jonathan Barnes
Susanne Bobzien
The Peripatetics
77(6)
The `Megarics'
83(9)
The Stoics
92(85)
Language
Dirk M. Schenkeveld
Linguistics
177(39)
Rhetoric
216(5)
Poetics
221(8)
PART III EPISTEMOLOGY
Introduction: the beginnings of Hellenistic epistemology
Jacques Brunschwig
The epistemological turn
229(12)
Pyrrho
241(10)
Cyrenaic epistemology
251(9)
Epicurean epistemology
Elizabeth Asmis
Canonic
260(4)
Perceptions
264(12)
Preconceptions
276(7)
Beliefs
283(12)
Stoic epistemology
Michael Frede
The possibility of knowledge
295(1)
Cognition
296(4)
Cognitive impressions
300(12)
Clearness, distinctness, evidence
312(1)
Assent to cognitive impressions
313(3)
The criteria
316(5)
Conclusion
321(2)
Academic epistemology
Malcolm Schofield
Introduction
323(1)
Arcesilaus: the problem of interpretation
324(3)
Arcesilaus' position
327(4)
Two objections to Arcesilaus
331(3)
Carneades on opinion and assent
334(4)
Carneades on the impossibility of knowledge
338(7)
Carneades' `probabilism'
345(5)
Conclusion
350(5)
PART IV PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS
Hellenistic physics and metaphysics
David Sedley
Introduction
355(1)
Diodorus Cronus
356(6)
Epicurean physics
362(20)
Stoic physics and metaphysics
382(30)
Cosmology
David Furley
Introduction: the fourth-century legacy
412(6)
The Epicureans
418(14)
The early Stoics
432(20)
Theology
Jaap Mansfeld
Philosophical theology
452(2)
Existence and attributes
454(8)
The gods, the world and men
462(7)
Knowledge of God
469(6)
Academic views and criticisms
475(4)
Explanation and causation
R. J. Hankinson
Background
479(2)
Stoic materialism
481(2)
The Stoic analysis of causation
483(4)
Antecedent causes
487(3)
The concept of preceding causes
490(1)
Dispositions and powers
491(3)
Causes and conditions
494(3)
Causes and time
497(1)
The Epicureans and causal explanation
498(5)
Teleology and mechanism
503(2)
The limits of explanation: multiple explanations
505(2)
The limits of explanation: empiricism
507(6)
Determinism and indeterminism
R. J. Hankinson
The origins of the question
513(3)
Logic and contingency
516(1)
The Hellenistic response
517(5)
The Epicurean position
522(4)
The Stoic response to the Master argument: fate and necessity
526(3)
The Chrysippean notion of fate: soft determinism
529(2)
Fate and responsibility: confatalia and the eph'hemin
531(3)
Divination and fate
534(3)
Soft determinism
537(3)
Fate and moral progress
540(2)
Epicurean psychology
Stephen Everson
Introduction
542(1)
The psuche
543(3)
Physicalism and materialism
546(4)
Epicurean physicalism
550(3)
Voluntary action
553(5)
Conclusion
558(2)
Stoic psychology
A. A. Long
Introduction
560(2)
The physical structure of the psuche and its location in the body
562(10)
Rationality and the faculties of the mind
572(12)
Concluding remarks
584(1)
Philosophy, science and medicine
Giuseppe Cambiano
Philosophy and mathematics
585(2)
Epicureanism and mathematics
587(3)
Scepticism and geometry
590(5)
Philosophy, astronomy and astrology
595(4)
Anatomy and philosophical questions
599(5)
Medical knowledge and experience
604(4)
Medical disputes and philosophical arguments
608(9)
PART V ETHICS AND POLITICS
The Socratic legacy
A.A. Long
Introduction
617(1)
The Socratic presence in Greek ethics
618(5)
Antisthenes and Diogenes - Cynic ethics
623(6)
Crates and the literary transmission of Cynicism
629(3)
Aristippus and Cyrenaic hedonism
632(7)
Socratic ethics and Hellenistic scepticism
639(3)
Epicurean ethics
Michael Erler
Malcolm Schofield
Introduction
642(2)
Ethics within the philosophy of Epicurus
644(3)
Philosophical background
647(1)
Pleasure and the foundation of ethics
648(3)
Pleasure as the goal
651(6)
Desire and the limits of life
657(9)
Virtue and friendship
666(3)
Practice
669(6)
Stoic ethics
Brad Inwood
Pierluigi Donini
Foundations and first principles
675(2)
Oikeiosis and primary impulse
677(5)
Cosmic nature and human nature
682(2)
The goal of life
684(3)
The good
687(3)
Values, actions and choice
690(9)
Passions
699(6)
Moral education and the problem of the passions
705(9)
Virtue and wisdom
714(10)
Moral progress
724(12)
Determinism and ethics: impulse with reservation
736(3)
Social and political thought
Malcolm Schofield
Introduction
739(1)
An overview
740(2)
On kingship
742(2)
Polybius on the growth and decline of constitutions
744(4)
Epicureanism on security
748(8)
Zeno's Republic
756(4)
Justice, oikeiosis and the cosmic city
760(9)
Retrospect
769(2)
Epilogue 771(27)
Michael Frede
Synopsis of principal events 798(7)
Editions of sources and fragments 805(15)
List of abbreviations 820(8)
Bibliography 828(48)
Index locorum 876(31)
General index 907

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