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This collection of essays focuses on key questions debated by Greek and Roman philosophers of the Hellenistic period.
More Reviews and RecommendationsThe doctrines of the Hellenistic Schools--Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics--are known to have had a formative influence on later thought, but because the primary sources are lost, they have to be reconstructed from later reports. This important collection of essays by one of the foremost interpreters of Hellenistic philosophy focuses on key questions in epistemology and ethics debated by Greek and Roman philosophers of the Hellenistic period.
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments and essay sources | ||
| List of abbreviations: Frequently cited names and titles | ||
| Methods of sophistry | 3 | |
| Epicurus on the truth of sense impressions | 77 | |
| Sceptical strategies | 92 | |
| The Ten Tropes of Aenesidemus | 116 | |
| On the difference between the Pyrrhonists and the Academics | 135 | |
| The problem of the criterion | 150 | |
| Greek ethics and moral theory | 169 | |
| Ataraxia: Happiness as tranquillity | 183 | |
| Epicurean hedonism | 196 | |
| Origins of the concept of natural law | 209 | |
| Following nature: A study in Stoic ethics | 221 | |
| The role of oikeiosis in Stoic ethics | 281 | |
| Antipater, or the art of living | 298 | |
| Plato's Socrates and the Stoics | 316 | |
| Name index | 325 | |
| Index of passages cited | 329 |
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