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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Donald J. Zeyl, Daniel Devereux, Phillip Mitsis. among that period's later works ; if they are middle dialogues , they be- long to the earlier part of that period . The Meno is certainly among the first of the middle dialogues , and it ...
... period is how far the New Academy is to be accepted as part of the Platonist tradition . Antiochus plainly dismissed it as an aberration , but later Platonists such as Plutarch chose to embrace the aporetic polemic of the New Academics ...
... period . The destruction of Athens in 86 B.C.E. at the hands of the Roman general Sulla led to the decline of Athens as the intellectual center of the world . Although the city remained a leading center for philosophy in the ancient ...
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