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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... position . This approach revealed weaknesses in an interlocutor's position or his defense of that position , without committing the questioner to a position of his own . This was of course one of * Socrates ' methods , and it is ...
... position ascribed to * Protagoras ( c . 485-415 B.C.E. ) in Plato's Protagoras ( 320-8 ) is that jus- tice and the other virtues are promoted , in any given society , by public and private persuasion and are a necessary precondition of ...
... position that nothing could be known not because they endorsed the position themselves , but merely as a defense against the * Stoics . BIBLIOGRAPHY : Brochard , V. , Les Sceptiques Grecs , 2 Paris , 1932 , 187–188 ; Sedley , D. , in ...
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