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'Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy' provides, twice each year, a collection of the best current work in the field of ancient philosophy. Each volume features original essays that contribute to an understanding of a wide range of themes and problems in all periods of ancient Greek and Ro...

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Other Authors: Caston, Victor, 1963- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Ser.
Subjects:
Philosophy, Ancient > Periodicals.
Philosophie ancienne > Périodiques.
Philosophy, Ancient
Electronic books.
Periodicals
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
  • Copyright
  • Advisory Board
  • Contents
  • Plato on the Unity of the Political Arts (Statesman 258 D-259 D)
  • Bibliography
  • What is Eikasia?
  • 1. Eikasia and the Cave allegory
  • 2. The object of eikasia
  • 2.1. The second-hand belief reading
  • 2.2. Evaluative images are sensory
  • 2.3. Eikasia as an explanation of ethical error
  • 3. Eikastic cognition
  • 3.1. The basic error
  • 3.2. The shadow-spotting competition
  • 3.3. Eikasia without reason
  • Bibliography
  • Attributing Beliefs and Judgements in Plato's Gorgias, Meno, and Theaetetus
  • Doxa as internal affirmation and denial
  • Polus and injustice in the Gorgias
  • Recollection and true doxa in the Meno
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Demonstration by Reductio AD Impossibile in Posterior Analytics 1. 26
  • 1. Aristotle's thesis in Posterior Analytics 1. 26
  • 2. Direct negative demonstration versus demonstration by reductio
  • 3. Aristotle's argument from priority in nature
  • 4. Priority in nature for a-propositions
  • 5. Priority in nature for e-, i-, and o-propositions
  • 6. Accounting for Aristotle's thesis in Posterior Analytics 1. 26
  • 7. Parts and wholes
  • 4. Cicero and the Tusculans: a sceptical reading
  • Bibliography
  • Sextus Empiricus on Religious Dogmatism
  • 1. The caveats
  • 2. Conformism or hypocrisy?
  • 2.1. Dogmatic conformism
  • 2.2. Hypocrisy
  • 2.3. Safety
  • 3. The 'master argument' in PH 3. 3-12
  • 3.1. The concept of god (PH 3. 3-6)
  • 3.2. Existential arguments (PH 3. 6-9)
  • 3.3. Providential arguments (PH 3. 9-12)
  • 4. Religious aetiology in M 9. 14-48
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Ancient Philosophy, Ancient History: A Discussion of M. T. Griffin, Politics and Philosophy at Rome: Collected Papers, edited by Catalina Balmaceda. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018. pp. xvi + 775.
  • I
  • II
  • III
  • IV
  • Bibliography
  • Index Locorum
  • Notes for Contributors to Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy