Strategies of polemics in Greek and Roman philosophy /

Strategies of polemics in Greek and Roman philosophy /

Strategies of Polemics in Greek and Roman Philosophy brings together papers written by specialists in the field of ancient philosophy on the topic of polemics. Despite the central role played by polemics in ancient philosophy, the forms and mechanisms of philosophical polemics are not usually the su...

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Other Authors: Weisser, Sharon., Thaler, Naly, 1973-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Series: Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture 21.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303942.

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Philosophy, Ancient.
Polemics.

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Call Number: BL505 .S77 2016

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction /
  • Sharon Weisser and Naly Thaler
  • The Continuation of Philosophy by Other Means? /
  • André Laks
  • The Young Dogs of Eristic: Dialectic and Eristic in the Early Academy /
  • Christopher Shields
  • A Hidden Argument in Plato's Theaetetus /
  • Naly Thaler
  • Polemical Arguments about Pleasure: The Controversy within and around the Academy /
  • Charlotte Murgier
  • The Politics of Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Republic /
  • Jozef Müller
  • Cyrenaics and Epicureans on Pleasure and the Good Life: The Original Debate and Its Later Revivals /
  • Voula Tsouna
  • Polemics in Translation: Lucretius /
  • Daniel Marković
  • The Perfidious Strategy; or, the Platonists against Stoicism /
  • Mauro Bonazzi
  • Vehementia: A Rhetorical Basis of Polemics in Roman Philosophy /
  • Carlos Lévy
  • The Art of Quotation: Plutarch and Galen against Chrysippus /
  • Sharon Weisser
  • The Invisible Adversary: Anti-Christian Polemic in Proclus's Commentary on the Republic of Plato /
  • Robert Lamberton
  • Index.