The Hellenistic Philosophers
The Hellenistic Philosophers
D. N. Sedley
$77.00
USDThis comprehensive sourcebook makes available in the original Latin and Greek the principal extant texts required for the study of the Stoic, Epicurean and skeptical schools of philosophy. The material is organized by schools, and within each school topics are treated thematically. The volume presents the same texts, with some additional passages, as are translated in Volume 1. A large annotated bibliography is also included.
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"...The Hellenistic Philosophers will shape the study of ancient philosophy for at least the next generation." Phronesis
"...an invaluable collection of sources carefully edited, with excellent notes on terms, grammatical expressions, concepts, and, most helpfully, comments on the context of the passage." Religious Studies Review
Product details
December 1989Paperback
9780521275576
524 pages
230 × 154 × 38 mm
0.8kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I. Early Pyrrhonism:
- 1. Scepticism, tranquillity and virtue
- 2. Timon's polemics
- Part II. Epicureanism:
- 3. Physics
- 4. Epistemology
- 5. Ethics
- Part III. Stoicism:
- 6. The philosophical curriculum
- 7. Ontology logic and semantics
- 8. Epistemology (stoics and academics)
- 9. Physics
- 10. Ethics
- Part IV. The Academics:
- 11. Methodology
- 12. Living without opinions
- 13. Contributions to philosophical debates
- 14. The Pyrrhonist revival
- 15. Why to suspend judgement
- 16. How to suspend judgement
- Bibliography.
