Stoics on Lekta - All There Is to Say

After Plato's Forms, and Aristotle's substances, the Stoics posited the fundamental reality of lekta - the meanings of sentences, distinct from the sentences themselves. This volume analyses the resulting unique, complex, and consistent cosmic view in which lekta are the keystones of the structure of reality: they are all there is to say.

List of contents

• 0: Introduction


• 1: The Invention of the System: A System is a System is a System


• 2: Lekta in the Stoic Ontological Framework


• 3: Bodies and Incorporeals


• 4: Rationality in Stoic Thought: Grasping Lekta


• 5: Lekta: All there is to Say


• 6: On the Reality of Lekta


• 7: Causation


• 8: Lekta and the Foundations of a Theory of Language


• 9: The Syntax of Lekta


• Endmatter


• Appendix: Dance and Lekta


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Ada Bronowski is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the New College of Humanities, London, having studied at the Universities of Paris, London, and Oxford, where she was awarded her doctorate.

Summary

After Plato's Forms, and Aristotle's substances, the Stoics posited the fundamental reality of lekta - the meanings of sentences, distinct from the sentences themselves. This volume analyses the resulting unique, complex, and consistent cosmic view in which lekta are the keystones of the structure of reality: they are all there is to say.

Additional text

...there are so many clever things in it[The Stoics on Lekta] that will stimulate future work on the subject.

Product details

• Authors: Ada Bronowski, Ada (Lecturer in Philosophy Bronowski
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780198842880
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884288-0
• No. of pages: 494
• Series: Oxford Classical Monographs; Oxford Classical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / Language, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Philosophy: logic, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500