Strategies of argument : essays in ancient ethics, epistemology, and logic /
"This volume features fifteen new papers by an international group of scholars in ancient philosophy, with a particular focus on new work in ancient Greek and Roman ethics, epistemology, logic, and science. The papers are organized around five broad topics: Plato, Aristotle's ethics and pr...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press, USA,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The life of Protarchus' choosing: Plato Philebus 20b-22c / Verity Harte
- 2. Fools' pleasures in Plato's Philebus / Jennifer Whiting
- 3. Did Plato's cosmos literally begin? / Sarah Broadie
- 4. A swarm of virtues: on the unity and completeness of Aristotle's scheme of character-virtues / Dorothea Frede
- 5. Justice and the laws in Aristotle's ethics / Mi-Kyoung Lee
- 6. Aristotle on how to fell a tree and other matters involving experience / Dana Miller/
- 7. Deduction in Sophistici Elenchi 6 / Marko Malink
- 8. Boethus and finished syllogisms / Jonathan Barnes
- 9. Alexander of Aphrodisias on Aristotle's theory of the Stoic indemonstrables / Susanne Bobzien
- 10. Why there are ends of both goods and evils in ancient ethical theory / James Allen
- 11. Ancient goods: the tria genera bonorum in ethical theory / Brad Inwood
- 12. The Philosophical Ambitions of Seneca's Letters / John Schafer
- 13. The epistemology of Ptolemy's On the criterion / Mark Schiefsky
- 14. Compulsions of Stoic assent / Charles Brittain
- 15. Sextus Empiricus on Persuasiveness and Equipollence / Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson
- Bibliography for Gisela Striker.