Hellenistic philosophy: introductory readings
by Gerson, Lloyd P. Inwood, Brad
This new edition of Hellenistic Philosophy --including nearly 100 pages of additional material--offers the first English translation of the account of Stoic ethics by Arius Didymus, substantial new sources on Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Scepticism, expanded representation of Plutarch and Cicero, and a fuller presentation of papyrological evidence. Inwood and Gerson maintain the standard of consistency and accuracy that distinguished their translations in the first edition, while regrouping some…
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- Full title :Hellenistic philosophy : introductory readings / translated, with introduction and notes, by Brad Inwood and L.P. Gerson.
Summary
This new edition of Hellenistic Philosophy --including nearly 100 pages of additional material--offers the first English translation of the account of Stoic ethics by Arius Didymus, substantial new sources on Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Scepticism, expanded representation of Plutarch and Cicero, and a fuller presentation of papyrological evidence. Inwood and Gerson maintain the standard of consistency and accuracy that distinguished their translations in the first edition, while regrouping some material into larger, more thematically connected passages.
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- Publication Date:©1997.
- Edition:2nd ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Hackett Pub. Co
- Place of Publication:Indianapolis
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1997.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (439 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781603848787, 1603848789, 9781624662287, 1624662285
- oclc:ocn797920003
- LC Classification:B505
- Dewey Decimal:180
Table of Contents
Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Introduction -- I: Epicureanism. The ancient biography of Epicurus ; The Extant Letters ; Ancient Collections of Maxims ; Doxographcal Reports ; The Testimony of Cicero ; The Testimony of Lucretius ; The Polemic of Plutarch ; Short Fragments and Testimonia from Known Works ; Short Fragments and Testimonia from Uncertain Works -- II: Stoicism. Lives of the Stoics ; On Philosophy ; Logic and Theory of Knowledge ; Physics ; On Fate ; Ethics -- III: Scepticism. Academic Scepticism : Arcesilaus and Carneades ; Pyrrhonian Scepticism : Pyrrho, Timon, Aenesidemus ; Later Pyrrhonism : Sextus Empiricus -- Glossary -- Philosophers and Philosophical Sources.
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