Strategies of argument : essays in ancient ethics, epistemology, and logic

Strategies of argument : essays in ancient ethics, epistemology, and logic / edited by Mi-Kyoung Lee.

"This volume features fifteen new papers by an international group of scholars in ancient philosophy, with a particular focus on new work in ancient Greek and Roman ethics, epistemology, logic, and science. The papers are organized around five broad topics: Plato, Aristotle's ethics and pr...

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Other Authors: Lee, Mi-Kyoung
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, USA, 2014.
Subjects:
Philosophy, Ancient.
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Philosophy, Ancient
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The life of Protarchus' choosing: Plato Philebus 20b-22c / Verity Harte
  • 2. Fools' pleasures in Plato's Philebus / Jennifer Whiting
  • 3. Did Plato's cosmos literally begin? / Sarah Broadie
  • 4. A swarm of virtues: on the unity and completeness of Aristotle's scheme of character-virtues / Dorothea Frede
  • 5. Justice and the laws in Aristotle's ethics / Mi-Kyoung Lee
  • 6. Aristotle on how to fell a tree and other matters involving experience / Dana Miller/
  • 7. Deduction in Sophistici Elenchi 6 / Marko Malink
  • 8. Boethus and finished syllogisms / Jonathan Barnes
  • 9. Alexander of Aphrodisias on Aristotle's theory of the Stoic indemonstrables / Susanne Bobzien
  • 10. Why there are ends of both goods and evils in ancient ethical theory / James Allen
  • 11. Ancient goods: the tria genera bonorum in ethical theory / Brad Inwood
  • 12. The Philosophical Ambitions of Seneca's Letters / John Schafer
  • 13. The epistemology of Ptolemy's On the criterion / Mark Schiefsky
  • 14. Compulsions of Stoic assent / Charles Brittain
  • 15. Sextus Empiricus on Persuasiveness and Equipollence / Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson
  • Bibliography for Gisela Striker.

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