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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... philosophical concerns of the Megarikoi ( who were * " Cynically - inclined moral philosophers " ) from those of the Dialek- tikoi ( who " took up the constructive study of * logic " ) and finds fourteen figures bearing the latter ...
... philosophical wisdom . For the Presocratic philosophers Diogenes has used a " doxographi- cal " source similar to other accounts in * Hippolytus and several other au- thors in late antiquity ; ultimately , it derives from Aristotle and ...
... philosophers and as a collective group promoting a kind of philosophical education in an ongoing community . " Philosophy " was defined as a way of life with an institutional form , not just as a noetic activity . Although * " Platonism ...
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