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Author : Juha Sihvola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Empiricism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028879810
Author : Jessica Berry,Jessica N. Berry
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195368420
This work presents a portrait of Nietzsche as the skeptic par excellence in the modern period, by demonstrating how a careful and informed understanding of ancient Pyrrhonism illuminates his reflections on truth, knowledge and morality, as well as the very nature and value of philosophic inquiry.
Author : Richard Bett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139828215
This volume offers a comprehensive survey of the main periods, schools, and individual proponents of scepticism in the ancient Greek and Roman world. The contributors examine the major developments chronologically and historically, ranging from the early antecedents of scepticism to the Pyrrhonist tradition. They address the central philosophical and interpretive problems surrounding the sceptics' ideas on subjects including belief, action, and ethics. Finally, they explore the effects which these forms of scepticism had beyond the ancient period, and the ways in which ancient scepticism differs from scepticism as it has been understood since Descartes. The volume will serve as an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the subject for non-specialists, while also offering considerable depth and detail for more advanced readers.
Author : J. van der Zande,R.H. Popkin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401734653
In the early 1980s the late Charles B. Schmitt and I discussed the fact that so much new research and new interpretations were taking place concerning various areas of modem skepticism that we, as pioneers, ought to organize a conference where these new findings and outlooks could be presented and discussed. Charles and I had both visited the great library at Wolfenbiittel, and were most happy when the Herzog August Bibliothek agreed to host the first conference on the history of skepticism, in 1984 (published as Skepticism from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, ed. R. H. Popkin and Charles B. Schmitt [Wiesbaden, 1987, Wolfenbiitteler For schungen, vol. 35]) Charles and I projected a series of later conferences, the first of which would deal with skepticism and irreligion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Unfortunately, however, Charles died suddenly in 1986, while lecturing in Padua. Subsequent to his death Constance Blackwell, his companion of many years, established the Foundation for Intellectual History to support research and publica tion on topics in the history of ideas that continued Schmitt's interests. One of the first ventures was to arrange and fund the already planned conference on skepticism and irreligion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. After many difficulties and problems, the conference was sponsored and funded by the Foundation for Intel lectual History, one of its first public activities. It was held at the lovely facilities of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Wassenaar in 1990.
Author : Mary Mills Patrick
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664183699
"Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism" by Mary Mills Patrick. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Harald Thorsrud
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317492832
Scepticism, a philosophical tradition that casts doubt on our ability to gain knowledge of the world and suggests suspending judgement in the face of uncertainty, has been influential since is beginnings in ancient Greece. Harald Thorsrud provides an engaging, rigorous introduction to the arguments, central themes and general concerns of ancient Scepticism, from its beginnings with Pyrrho of Elis (c.360-c.270 BCE) to the writings of Sextus Empiricus in the second century CE. Thorsrud explores the differences among Sceptics and examines in particular the separation of the Scepticism of Pyrrho from its later form - Academic Scepticism - which arose when its ideas were introduced into Plato's "Academy" in the third century BCE. He also unravels the prolonged controversy that developed between Academic Scepticism and Stoicism, the prevailing dogmatism of the day. Steering an even course through the many differences of scholarly opinion surrounding Scepticism, Thorsrud provides a balanced appraisal of its enduring significance by showing why it remains so philosophically interesting and how ancient interpretations differ from modern ones.
Author : Leen Spruit
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004098836
The main purpose of this book is to offer a comprehensive historical analysis of the discussions on a crucial problem for the Medieval theory of knowledge: the formal mediation of sensible reality in intellectual knowledge.
Author : Jessica N. Berry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199709526
The impact of Nietzsche's engagement with the Greek skeptics has never before been systematically explored in a book-length work - an inattention that belies the interpretive weight scholars otherwise attribute to his early career as a professor of classical philology and to the fascination with Greek literature and culture that persisted throughout his productive academic life. Jessica N. Berry fills this gap in the literature on Nietzsche by demonstrating how an understanding of the Pyrrhonian skeptical tradition illuminates Nietzsche's own reflections on truth, knowledge, and ultimately, the nature and value of philosophic inquiry. This entirely new reading of Nietzsche's epistemological and ethical views promises to make clear and render coherent his provocative but often opaque remarks on the topics of truth and knowledge and to grant us further insight into his ethics-since the Greek skeptics, like Nietzsche, take up the position they do as a means of promoting well-being and psychological health. In addition, it allows us to recover a portrait of Nietzsche as a philologist and philosophical psychologist that has been too often obscured by commentaries on his thought. "The book addresses a number of central issues in Nietzsche's philosophy, including perspectivism and his conception of truth. The idea that his views in these areas owe much to the ancient Pyrrhonists casts them in an important new light, and is well supported by the texts. A lot of people from a lot of different areas in philosophy will have good reason to take notice." - Richard Bett, Johns Hopkins University
Author : Harald Thorsrud
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317492825
Scepticism, a philosophical tradition that casts doubt on our ability to gain knowledge of the world and suggests suspending judgement in the face of uncertainty, has been influential since is beginnings in ancient Greece. Harald Thorsrud provides an engaging, rigorous introduction to the arguments, central themes and general concerns of ancient Scepticism, from its beginnings with Pyrrho of Elis (c.360-c.270 BCE) to the writings of Sextus Empiricus in the second century CE. Thorsrud explores the differences among Sceptics and examines in particular the separation of the Scepticism of Pyrrho from its later form - Academic Scepticism - which arose when its ideas were introduced into Plato's "Academy" in the third century BCE. He also unravels the prolonged controversy that developed between Academic Scepticism and Stoicism, the prevailing dogmatism of the day. Steering an even course through the many differences of scholarly opinion surrounding Scepticism, Thorsrud provides a balanced appraisal of its enduring significance by showing why it remains so philosophically interesting and how ancient interpretations differ from modern ones.
Author : Myles Burnyeat,Michael Frede
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0872203476
This is a collection of five essays debating the nature and scope of ancient scepticism, and providing an introduction to the thought of the original sceptics. The book seeks to shed new light on how their thought relates to sceptical arguments in modern philosophy.
Author : R. J. Hankinson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Escépticos (Filosofía griega)
ISBN : 0415184460
The first comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of Greek sceptism, from the beginnings of epistemology with Xenophanes, to the final full development Pyrrhonism as presented in the work of Sextus Empiricus.
Author : Alan Bailey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0198238525
Alan Bailey offers a clear exposition and defence of the philosophy of Sextus Empiricus, one of the most influential of ancient thinkers, the father of philosophical scepticism.
Author : M. F. Burnyeat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521750721
The first of two volumes collecting the published work of one of the greatest living ancient philosophers, M.F. Burnyeat.
Author : Myles Burnyeat
Publisher : Berkeley : University of California Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Skepticism
ISBN : 0520037472
Author : R. J. Hankinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 113814567X
The Scepticsis the first comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of Greek scepticism, from the beginnings of epistemology with Xenophanes, to the final full development of Pyrrhonism as presented in the work of Sextus Empiricus. Tracing the evolution of scepticism from 500 B.C to A.D 200, this clear and rigorous analysis presents the arguments of the Greek sceptics in their historical context and provides an in-depth study of the various strands of the sceptical tradition.
