Papers in Hellenistic Philosophy

Table des matières

Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I. Epicureanism: 1. Epicurus' argument on the immutability of the all; 2. Epicurus and the problem of private language; Part II. Stoicism: 3. Remarks on the Stoic theory of the proper noun; 4. Remarks on the classification of simple propositions in Hellenistic logics; 5. The conjunctive model; 6. The Stoic theory of the supreme genus and Platonic ontology; 7. On a Stoic way of not being; 8. Did Diogenes of Babylon invent the ontological argument?; Part III. Scepticism: 9. Once again on Eusebius on Aristocles on Timon on Pyrrho; 10. The title of Timon's Indalmoi: from Odysseus to Pyrrho; 11. Sextus Empiricus on the kriterion: the Sceptic as conceptual legatee; 12. The hoson epi toi logoi formula in Sextus Empiricus; Bibliography; Index of subjects; Index of names; Index of passages cited.

Résumé

This collection makes available in English twelve papers by the distinguished French scholar Professor Jacques Brunschwig. The essays deal with problems arising in the texts and doctrines of the three major philosophical schools of the Hellenistic period - Epicureanism, Stoicism and Scepticism.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jacques Brunschwig, Brunschwig Jacques, Brunschwig Jacques
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 05.05.1994
• EAN: 9780521417129
• ISBN: 978-0-521-41712-9
• Pages: 292
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: de l'Antiquité à nos jours; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Philosophie > Général, dictionnaires; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500