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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lee, Mi-Kyoung, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 399 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Essays in ancient ethics, epistemology, and logic

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume features 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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-989048-X