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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... later times but that seeks to combine the two chief aspects of the soul's nature as set out in the Phaedrus and the Timaeus ( in Xenocrates ' interpretation ) , its role as the initiator of all mo- tion , and its construction on the ...
... later Pyrrhonism and without their * dialecti- cal underpinnings , nevertheless deserves to be called skeptical . Pyrrho's distinctive achievements were to maintain that this epistemological atti- tude gave rise to the imperturbability ...
... later tradition's presentation of Pythagoras as a natural philosopher and mathematician and that the burden of proof is on anyone who would deny it . However , since there is a consensus that the later tradition is full of ...
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