Encyclopedia of Classical PhilosophyDonald J. Zeyl, Daniel Devereux, Phillip Mitsis The only encyclopedia in English specific to the field of Classical Philosophy, this work presents 270 articles on major and minor figures and on topics of importance to the philosophy of Greek and Roman antiquity. The articles present not only succinct historical accounts of their subject matter, but they introduce readers to issues of interpretation and debate in the contemporary scholarly study of the philosophy of the Classical period. Scholars, students, and interested lay persons will find this volume useful in gaining a comprehensive view of the field. The contributors, representing three continents, are themselves leading scholars of international stature. |
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... claim to know . Once he has demon- strated how to refute universal skepticism , moreover , he considers him- self free to evaluate the epistemological credentials of belief and knowl- edge claims on a direct and relatively ...
... claim to knowledge . It produces moderate feeling ( metriopatheia ) , because the skeptic does not claim to know that anything is bad and so does not have the intense emotional reactions that result from this supposed knowledge . Roman ...
... claiming that " what is not exists no less than what is " ( Ar . Met . 985b4f . ) , and the claim that motion requires void . Since the atomists take it to be empiri- cally given that there is motion , they conclude that the void must ...
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