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Stoics. --- Political science --- Philosophy. --- History. --- Stoics --- Political philosophy --- Ethics --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Philosophy --- History --- Political science - Philosophy. --- Political science - Greece - History.
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This volume offers the first bilingual edition of a major text in the history of epistemology, Diogenes Laertius's report on Pyrrho and Timon in his Lives of Eminent Philosophers. Leading experts contribute a philosophical introduction, translation, commentary, and scholarly essays on the nature of Diogenes's report as well as core questions in recent research on skepticism.
Philosophy, Ancient. --- Skepticism. --- Skeptics (Greek philosophy). --- Diogenes Laertius. --- Religion / Theology --- Religion --- History / Ancient --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Epistemology --- Ancient Skepticism --- Investigation --- Skepticism and early Greek thouphg/poetry --- Studienliteratur --- Antike --- Editionen, Textausgaben --- Lehrbücher --- Alte Geschichte --- Antike Philosophie
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"The notions of the cosmic city and the common law are central to early Stoic political thought. As Katja Maria Vogt shows, together they make up one complex theory. A city is a place governed by the law. Yet only the law pervading the cosmos can be considered a true law, and thus the cosmos is the only real city. A city is also a dwelling-place - in the case of the cosmos, the dwelling-place of all human beings. The thought that we should view all other human beings as belonging to "our city" is at the heart of Stoic cosmopolitanism. All human beings are citizens of the cosmic city in the sense of living in the world." "As Vogt shows, political philosophy is central to early Stoic philosophy, and is deeply tied to the Stoics' conceptions of reason and wisdom. Vogt's argument is broad in scope: She explores the Stoics' idea of the cosmic city, their notion of citizen-gods, and their account of the law. Her work will interest scholars and students of the Stoics as well as those of political theory and philosophy."--BOOK JACKET.
Stoics --- Political science --- Greece --- Philosophy --- Political science. --- Politische Philosophie. --- Stoa. --- Stoics. --- History --- Philosophy. --- Greece. --- History. --- Political science - Philosophy. --- Political science - Greece - History. --- Political science - Philosophy
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"Pyrrhonian skepticism is defined by its commitment to inquiry. The Greek work skepsis means inquiry -- not doubt, or whatever else later forms of skepticism took to be at the core of skeptical philosophy. Sextus Empiricus's writings offer the most sophisticated and detailed version of ancient skepticism in the Pyrrhonian tradition. According to Sextus, skeptics neither claim to 'know nothing' nor hold knowledge to be unattainable. Instead they continue to investigate (Outlines of Pyrrhonism 1.1-4). Being a skeptic, unlike, say, a Stoic or a Platonist, is not a matter of holding a certain view. It is to engage in ongoing inquiry of a certain sort. This makes Pyrrhonism an enigmatic presence in the history of philosophy. It offers no theories to interpret, no proofs in any ordinary sense to excavate. Pyrrhonism is self-consciously open ended, foreseeing epicycles of objections and replies, arguments and counterarguments in perpetuity. Just as enigmatic is its voice for posterity, Sextus Empiricus (fl. 2nd century CE). While a large quantity of his works survives, assessing his place in the history of philosophy and his relevance for contemporary philosophy is challenging, for it is often difficult to decipher where his sources end and he begins. This volume investigates epistemology after Sextus, both ways in which he has influenced the history of philosophy and ways in which he and the Pyrrhonian tradition he represents ought to contribute to contemporary debates. We aim to (re-)instate Sextus as an important philosopher in these discussions in much the same way that Aristotle has been brought into discussions in contemporary ethics, action theory, and metaphysics"--
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Skepticism. --- Skeptics (Greek philosophy). --- Sextus, --- Influence. --- Skeptics (Greek philosophy) --- Skepticism --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Influence --- Sextus, - Empiricus. - Influence --- Sextus, - Empiricus.
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"Katja Maria Vogt's Belief and Truth: A Skeptic Reading of Plato explores a Socratic intuition about the difference between belief and knowledge. Beliefs -- doxai -- are deficient cognitive attitudes. In believing something, one accepts some content as true without knowing that it is true; one holds something to be true that could turn out to be false. Since our actions reflect what we hold to be true, holding beliefs is potentially harmful for oneself and others. Accordingly, beliefs are ethically worrisome and even, in the words of Plato's Socrates, "shameful." As Vogt argues, this is a serious philosophical proposal and it speaks to intuitions we are likely to share. But it involves a notion of belief that is rather different from contemporary notions. Today, it is a widespread assumption that true beliefs are better than false beliefs, and that some true beliefs (perhaps those that come with justifications) qualify as knowledge. Socratic epistemology offers a genuinely different picture. In aiming for knowledge, one must aim to get rid of beliefs. Knowledge does not entail belief -- belief and knowledge differ in such important ways that they cannot both count as kinds of belief. As long as one does not have knowledge, one should reserve judgment and investigate by thinking through possible ways of seeing things. According to Vogt, the ancient skeptics and Stoics draw many of these ideas from Plato's dialogues, revising Socratic-Platonic arguments as they see fit. Belief and Truth retraces their steps through interpretations of the Apology, Ion, Republic, Theaetetus, and Philebus, reconstructs Pyrrhonian investigation and thought, and illuminates the connections between ancient skepticism and relativism, as well as the Stoic view that beliefs do not even merit the evaluations "true" and "false."--Provided by publisher.
Theory of knowledge --- Belief and doubt --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Skepticism --- Truth --- Conviction --- Philosophy --- Certainty --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Pragmatism --- Scepticism --- Unbelief --- Agnosticism --- Free thought --- Epistemology --- Psychology --- Doubt --- Consciousness --- Credulity --- Emotions --- Religion --- Will --- Rationalism --- Plato. --- Aflāṭūn --- Aplaton --- Bolatu --- Platon, --- Platonas --- Platone --- Po-la-tʻu --- Pʻŭllatʻo --- Pʻŭllatʻon --- Pʻuratʻon --- Πλάτων --- אפלטון --- פלאטא --- פלאטאן --- פלאטו --- أفلاطون --- 柏拉圖 --- 플라톤 --- Plato --- Platon --- Platoon --- Belief and doubt. --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Skepticism. --- Truth. --- Платон --- プラトン --- Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) --- Relativity.
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