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Author: Luca Castagnoli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-09-30
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 0521896312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book-length treatment provides a unified account of what is distinctive in the ancient approach to the self-refutation argument.
Author: Luca Castagnoli
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Published: 2005
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jakob Leth Fink
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-11-01
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1139789287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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
Published: 2012-06-14
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 0521750725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780199262229
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Author: Dominic Scott
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2007-12-13
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 0199289972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaieusis 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: Raymond Barfield
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-01-31
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 113949709X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 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: Attila Németh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-08-16
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1351800663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEpicurus 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: Katja Maria Vogt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-09-20
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0199916810
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBelief and Truth: A Skeptic Reading of Plato explores a Socratic intuition about belief, doxa — belief is "shameful." In aiming for knowledge, one must aim to get rid of beliefs. Vogt shows how deeply this proposal differs from contemporary views, but that it nevertheless speaks to intuitions we are likely to share with Plato, ancient skeptics, and Stoic epistemologists.
Author: Zina Giannopoulou
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-06-27
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0199695296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKZina Giannopoulou offers a new reading of Theaetetus, Plato's most systematic examination of knowledge, alongside Apology, Socrates' speech in defence of his philosophical practice, and argues that the former text is a philosophical elaboration of the latter.
