Strategies of polemics in Greek and Roman philosophy

Strategies of polemics in Greek and Roman philosophy / edited by Sharon Weisser and Naly Thaler.

Strategies of Polemics in Greek and Roman Philosophy brings together papers written by specialists in the field of ancient philosophy on the topic of polemics. Despite the central role played by polemics in ancient philosophy, the forms and mechanisms of philosophical polemics are not usually the su...

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Other Authors: Weisser, Sharon (Editor), Thaler, Naly, 1973- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Series:Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 21.
Subjects:
Philosophy, Ancient.
Polemics.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
Philosophy, Ancient
Polemics
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; The Continuation of Philosophy by Other Means?; The Young Dogs of Eristic: Dialectic and Eristic in the Early Academy; A Hidden Argument in Plato's Theaetetus; Polemical Arguments about Pleasure: The Controversy within and around the Academy; The Politics of Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Republic; Cyrenaics and Epicureans on Pleasure and the Good Life: The Original Debate and Its Later Revivals; Polemics in Translation: Lucretius; The Perfidious Strategy; or, the Platonists against Stoicism.
  • Vehementia: A Rhetorical Basis of Polemics in Roman PhilosophyThe Art of Quotation: Plutarch and Galen againstChrysippus; The Invisible Adversary: Anti-Christian Polemic in Proclus's Commentary on the Republic of Plato; Index.

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