[PDF] Authors And Authorities In Ancient Philosophy eBook

Author : Jenny Bryan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 33,62 MB
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108606024

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Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy is often characterised in terms of competitive individuals debating orally with one another in public arenas. But it also developed over its long history a sense in which philosophers might acknowledge some other particular philosopher or group of philosophers as an authority and offer to that authority explicit intellectual allegiance. This is most obvious in the development after the classical period of the philosophical 'schools' with agreed founders and, most importantly, canonical founding texts. There also developed a tradition of commentary, interpretation, and discussion of texts which itself became a mode of philosophical debate. As time went on, the weight of a growing tradition of reading and appealing to a certain corpus of foundational texts began to shape how later antiquity viewed its philosophical past and also how philosophical debate and inquiry was conducted. In this book leading scholars explore aspects of these important developments.

Author : Jenny Bryan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,49 MB
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1316510042

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Offers a collection of essays exploring notions of authority and authorship through ancient Greek and Roman philosophy.

Author : Brad Inwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,98 MB
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1108485820

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Explores Greek and Roman theories about the relationship of soul and body in the centuries after Aristotle.

Author : Michael Erler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 13,15 MB
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108844006

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Sheds light on the meaning, import and philosophical outlook of the notion of authority throughout the Platonist tradition.

Author : G. E. R. Lloyd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 1996-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521556958

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This is a wide-ranging exploration of the similarities and differences between ancient Greek and ancient Chinese science and philosophy, concentrating on the period down to AD 300. Professor Lloyd studies such questions as the attitudes towards authority, the practice of confrontational debate, the role of methodological inquiries, the development of techniques of persuasion, the assumptions made about causal explanation and the focus of interest in the study of the heavens and in that of the human body. In each case the Greek and Chinese ways of posing the problems are carefully distinguished to avoid applying either Greek categories to Chinese thought or vice versa. Professor Lloyd shows that the science produced in each ancient civilisation differs in important respects and relates those differences to the values and social institutions in question.

Author : René Brouwer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 35,75 MB
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1107024218

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The first ever book-length study of the influential Stoic concept of wisdom.

Author : Daniel W. Graham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 25,76 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1351909118

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This book presents some of the most recent trends and developments in Presocratic scholarship. A wide range of topics are covered - from the metaphysical to the moral to the methodological - as well as a broad a range of authors: from recognized figures such as Heraclitus and Parmenides to Sophistic thinkers whose place has traditionally been marginalized, such as Gorgias and the author of the Dissoi Logoi. Several of the pieces are concerned with the later reception and influence of the Presocratics on ancient philosophy, an area of study important both for the light it sheds on our evidence for Presocratic thought and for understanding the philosophical power of their ideas. Drawing together contributions from distinguished authorities and internationally acclaimed scholars of ancient philosophy, this book offers new challenges to traditional interpretations in some areas of Presocratic philosophy and finds new support for traditional interpretations in other areas.

Author : Georgios Anagnostopoulos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9400760043

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This distinctive collection of original articles features contributions from many of the leading scholars of ancient Greek philosophy. They explore the concept of reason and the method of analysis and the central role they play in the philosophies of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. They engage with salient themes in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and political theory, as well as tracing links between each thinker’s ideas on selected topics. The volume contains analyses of Plato’s Socrates, focusing on his views of moral psychology, the obligation to obey the law, the foundations of politics, justice and retribution, and Socratic virtue. On Plato’s Republic, the discussions cover the relationship between politics and philosophy, the primacy of reason over the soul’s non-rational capacities, the analogy of the city and the soul, and our responsibility for choosing how we live our own lives. The anthology also probes Plato’s analysis of logos (reason or language) which underlies his philosophy including the theory of forms. A quartet of reflections explores Aristotelian themes including the connections between knowledge and belief, the nature of essence and function, and his theories of virtue and grace. The volume concludes with an insightful intellectual memoir by David Keyt which charts the rise of analytic classical scholarship in the past century and along the way provides entertaining anecdotes involving major figures in modern academic philosophy. Blending academic authority with creative flair and demonstrating the continuing interest of ancient Greek philosophy, this book will be a valuable addition to the libraries of all those studying and researching the origins of Western philosophy.

Author : Michael Erler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 21,45 MB
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108922457

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All disciplines can count on a noble founder, and the representation of this founder as an authority is key in order to construe a discipline's identity. This book sheds light on how Plato and other authorities were represented in one of the most long-lasting traditions of all time. It leads the reader through exegesis and polemics, recovery of the past and construction of a philosophical identity. From Xenocrates to Proclus, from the sceptical shift to the re-establishment of dogmatism, from the Mosaic of the Philosophers to the Neoplatonist Commentaries, the construction of authority emerges as a way of access to the core of the Platonist tradition.