Papers in Hellenistic Philosophy

by: Brunschwig, J.

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This collection makes available in English twelve essays by a distinguished French scholar, which contribute to the current scholarly and philosophical renewal of interest in the major Hellenistic schools of philosophy of the Greco-Roman world. The author focuses on specific problems in text or interpretation and then enlarges his conclusions to involve some major historical and philosophical issues. Two of these pieces are published here for the first time. The others, with one exception, have previously appeared only in French.

The collected papers of a very distinguished French scholar of ancient Greek philosophy, highly respected by his British and US colleagues
Professor Brunschwig's work is exceptional in combining skilful explanation of the language of the texts with acute philosophical analysis
This collection will make Professor Brunschwig's work better known to the English-speaking world - especially the United States

Table of Contents
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.

Papers in Hellenistic Philosophy

by: Brunschwig, J.

• ISBN-13: 9780521417129 / 978-0-521-41712-9
• ISBN-03: 0521417120 / 0-521-41712-0
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge , 1994

Price: 83,93 EURO

1 copy in stock