Dialectic After Plato and Aristotle

Studies the different conceptions of dialectic (art of argumentation, logic) during the Hellenistic and early Imperial periods.

List of contents

Introduction: dialectics in dialogue Thomas Bénatouïl; 1. Megara and dialectic James Allen; 2. Dialectic in the early Peripatos Paolo Crivelli; 3. Epicurus on dialectic David Sedley; 4. Dialectic as a subpart of stoic philosophy Katerina Ierodiakonou; 5. Stoic dialectic and its objects Jean-Baptiste Gourinat; 6. Dialectic in the Hellenistic Academy Luca Castagnoli; 7. Pithana and Probabilia Tobias Reinhardt; 8. Terminology and practice of dialectic in Cicero's letters Sophie Aubert-Baillot; 9. The sceptic's modes of argumentation Benjamin Morison; 10. Galen and middle Platonists on dialectic and knowledge Riccardo Chiaradonna.

About the author

Thomas Bénatouïl is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the Université de Lille. He has published two books in French on Stoicism and many papers in French and English on Hellenistic and Imperial philosophy and on the contemporary reception of Stoicism. He is currently working on the Academy from Plato to Cicero.Katerina Ierodiakonou is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Athens and at the University of Geneva. She has published extensively on ancient and Byzantine philosophy, especially in the areas of epistemology and logic. She is currently working on a monograph about ancient theories of colour, as well as on an edition, translation and commentary of Theophrastus' De sensibus and of Michael Psellos' paraphrase of Aristotle's De interpretatione.

Summary

Ancient dialectic started as an art of refutation and evolved into a science akin to our logic, grammar and linguistics. This book studies the philosophical debates over the objects and uses of dialectic involving Theophrastus, Epicurus, the Stoics, the ancient sceptics, Cicero, Galen and many others.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Ierodiakonou Benatouil, Thomas Bénatouïl
• Assisted by: Thomas Benatouil (Editor), Thomas (Universite de Lille) Benatouil (Editor), Thomas Bénatouïl (Editor), Katerina Ierodiakonou (Editor), Katerina (Universite de Geneve) Ierodiakonou (Editor), Katerina (Universite de Lille) Ierodiakonou (Editor), Ierodiakonou Katerina (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781108471909
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47190-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Historical & comparative linguistics, Philosophy: logic, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Historical and comparative linguistics