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Ancient Evenings : Nine Pyrrhonian Dialogues.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kuzminski, Adrian.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (174 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Luton, Bedfordshire : Imprint Academic, 2024.
- Summary:
- Ancient Evenings is a study of consciousness presented as a series of fictional philosophical dialogues set at the height of the Roman Empire. These dialogues -- on good and evil, truth and falsehood, life and death -- are historical re-enactments of what persons representing the major Hellenistic schools of philosophy might actually have said to one another in informal but serious discussion and debate. The inclusion of the Buddhist-like arguments of ancient Pyrrhonian sceptics -- which challenge the dogmatic Stoics, Epicureans, and Academic nihilists -- results in a powerful unique view of the secular Hellenistic schools of antiquity, and of their continued importance to modern secular thinking about how to live in a world without divine intervention.Ancient Evenings is in the spirit of great dialogues from Plato to Cicero, and Berkeley to Hume. It brings back to life the neglected literary form of the philosophical dialogue as a potent and unique instrument of philosophical inquiry.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Front Matter
- Title Page
- Publisher Information
- Preface
- Prologue
- Ancient Evenings
- Part I: Dialogues on Good and Evil
- Cast and Setting
- The First Evening: Do Good and Evil Exist?
- The Second Evening: Do Things Exist Independently?
- The Third Evening: Is There a Middle Path?
- Part II: Dialogues on Truth
- The First Evening: Does Truth Exist?
- The Second Evening: Can Anything Be Known?
- The Third Evening: What is Ataraxia?
- Part III: Dialogues on Life and Death
- The First Evening: Are Beliefs Necessary?
- The Second Evening: Is the Soul Necessary?
- The Third Evening: Is Death Necessary?
- Back Matter
- Glossary of Individuals Named in the Dialogues
- Bibliography
- Selected Readings
- Ancient Sources
- Modern Sources.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-78836-127-X
- 1-78836-126-1
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