From Aristotle to Cicero - Essays in Ancient Philosophy

This volume draws together a selection of Gisela Striker's essays from the last forty years in the areas of research for which she is best known: Aristotle's logic and ethics, and Hellenistic epistemology and ethics.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Aristotle on syllogisms 'from a hypothesis'


• 2: Necessity with gaps


• 3: Assertoric vs. Modal Syllogistic


• 4: Perfection and Reduction in Aristotle's Prior Analytics


• 5: Aristotle and the Uses of Logic


• 6: Aristotle's Three Theories of Argument


• 7: The 'Analysis' of Aristotle's Analytics


• 8: A Note on the Ontology of Aristotle's Categories ch.2


• 9: Emotions in Context


• 10: Aristotle's ethics as political science


• 11: Two kinds of deliberation: Aristotle and the Stoics


• 12: Academics fighting Academics


• 13: Scepticism as a Kind of Philosophy


• 14: Epicurean Epistemology


• 15: Mental Health and Moral Health. Moral Progress in Seneca's Letters


• 16: Panaetius' 'On Duties' Cicero's De Officiis

About the author

Gisela Striker is Walter C. Klein Professor of Philosophy and of the Classics, Emerita at Harvard University. She studied Philosophy and Classics in Germany, receiving her PhD in Philosophy in 1969 at the University of Göttingen, where she also taught Philosophy from 1970 to 1986. She moved to the United States in 1986, first to Columbia University in New York. In 1989, she accepted a joint appointment in Philosophy and Classics at Harvard University, where she taught from 1989 until her retirement in 2011, with a three-year interlude at the University of Cambridge (UK) as Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy from 1997-2000.

Summary

This volume draws together a selection of Gisela Striker's essays from the last forty years in the areas of research for which she is best known: Aristotle's logic and ethics, and Hellenistic epistemology and ethics.

Product details

• Authors: Gisela Striker, Gisela (Walter C. Klein Professor of Phil Striker, Striker Gisela
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9780198868385
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886838-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: logic, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge