Prolepsis and Ennoia in the early Stoa

Prolepsis and Ennoia in the early Stoa / Henry Dyson.

This book offers a reconstruction of the early Stoic doctrine of prolepsis, revealing it to be much closer to Platonic recollection in certain respects than previously thought. The standard interpretation of prolepsis as preconceptions is inconsistent with their status as criteria of truth. Rather,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dyson, Henry, 1975-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 2009.
Series:Sozomena (Berlin, Germany) ; v. 5.
Subjects:
Stoics.
Philosophy.
stoicism.
philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
Philosophy
Stoics
Stoa
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter; Contents; Introduction: The Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge; Chapter One: Are Porlepses and Common Conceptions Identical?; Chapter Two: Prolepsis and Common Conceptions as Criteria of Truth; Chapter Three: Stages in the Development of Reason; Interim Conclusions: Meno's Paradox and the Early Stoa; Chapter Four: The Formation of Prolepses; Chapter Five: Prolepsis in Ordinary and Philosophical Cognition; Conclusion: Are the Stoics Empiricists or Rationalists?; Tables: The Usage of????????,??????a, and Related Terms; Appendix A: Epicurus and Later Epicureans.
  • Appendix B: The Early StoaAppendix C: Cicero and Seneca; Appendix D: Epictetus; Appendix E: Plutarch; Appendix F: Sextus Empiricus; Appendix G: Alexander of Aphrodisias; Appendix H: Alcinous; Backmatter.

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