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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... known through themselves . The conclu- sion of a demonstration is known only when one understands why it must be true . The principles themselves are known through induction , an argu- mentative procedure that moves from a plurality of ...
... known for public speeches delivered there as displays of his rhetorical skills and technique . Summaries and actual parts of at least six of these speeches survive to the present day , namely , a Funeral Ora- tion , an Olympic Oration ...
... known also to have written books , of which only a few isolated sentences survive . Plato mentions a book entitled Truth , to which * Sextus refers as the Downthrowers . The " Great Speech " known in antiquity may have been the same ...
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