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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... concept wholly antitheti- cal to the worldly king , Onesicritus ( following Antisthenes and * Xeno- phon ) facilitated appropriation and redefinition of that concept by ruler- ship ideology ( as later did Dio of Prusa's Kingship ...
... concepts in order to formulate a question or hy- pothesis . If these concepts are already contaminated by untested presup- positions , then the inquiry is bound to fail . Epicurus thought that the ini- tial concepts of investigation are ...
... concepts with Greek phi- losophy , particularly Platonism , and it is not always clear , in relation to later Platonism , in which direction the influence goes . Besides the Demi- urge and the intelligible cosmos , Basilides ' concept ...
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