The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy
by: Keimpe Algra, Jonathan Barnes, Jaap Mansfeld, Malcolm Schofield
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A full account of the philosophy of the Greek and Roman worlds from the last days of Aristotle (c. 320 BC) until 100 BC. Hellenistic philosophy, for long relatively neglected and unappreciated, has over the last decade been the object of a considerable amount of scholarly attention. The time has come for a general reference work which pulls the subject together and presents an overview. The History is organised by subject, rather than chronologically or by philosophical school, with sections on logic, epistemology, physics and metaphysics, ethics and politics. It has been written by specialists but is intended to be a source of reference for any student of ancient philosophy, for students of classical antiquity and for students of the philosophy of later periods. Greek and Latin are used sparingly and always translated in the main text.
Table of Contents
part i - INTRODUCTION
1 - Sources
i Why so much has been lost
ii Primary sources
iii Secondary sources
iv Quellenforschung
v Genres
vi Doxography
vii On sects
viii Successions
ix Biography
x Fragments
xi Tradition and reception
2 - Chronology
i Introduction
ii The Academy
iii The Peripatos
iv The Stoa
v The Garden
vi Pyrrhonists
vii Minor Socratics
viii Survey
Appendix
3 - Organization and structure of the philosophical schools
part ii - LOGIC AND LANGUAGE
4 - Introduction
i A map of logic
ii The value of logic
iii The history of Hellenistic logic
1: Chrysippus
2: After Chrysippus
3: Before Chrysippus
5 - Logic
i The Peripatetics
ii The ‘Megarics’
iii The Stoics
1: Assertibles
2: Simple assertibles
3: Non-simple assertibles
4: Modality
5: Arguments
6: Syllogistic
7: Arguments valid in the specific sense
8: Paradoxes
6 - Language
i Linguistics
1: The study of language
2: Meaning
ii Rhetoric
iii Poetics
part iii - EPISTEMOLOGY
7 - Introduction: the beginnings ofHellenistic epistemology
i The epistemological turn
ii Pyrrho
iii Cyrenaic epistemology
8 - Epicurean epistemology
i Canonic
ii Perceptions
iii Preconceptions
iv Beliefs
9 - Stoic epistemology
i The possibility of knowledge
ii Cognition
iv Clearness, distinctness, evidence
v Assent to cognitive impressions
vi The criteria
vii Conclusion
10 - Academic epistemology
i Introduction
ii Arcesilaus: the problem of interpretation
iii Arcesilaus’ position
iv Two objections to Arcesilaus
v Carneades on opinion and assent
vi Carneades on the impossibility of knowledge
vii Carneades’ ‘probabilism’
viii Conclusion
part iv - PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS
11 - Hellenistic physics and metaphysics
i Introduction
ii Diodorus Cronus3
iii Epicurean physics
1. Introduction
2. Conservation
3. Body and space
4. Elimination of other per se existents
5. Atoms
6. Infinity
7. Minima
8. Properties
iv Stoic physics and metaphysics
1. Introduction
2. Bodies
3. The principles
4. Active and passive elements
5. The continuum
6. The incorporeals
7. Qualities
8. The four genera
9. ‘Something’ and ‘not-something’
12 - Cosmology
i Introduction: the fourth-century legacy
ii The Epicureans
1. The goal of Epicurean cosmology
2. Infinitely numerous atoms in an infinite void
3. The motions of atoms
4. The origin of the world
5. The formation of the heavens: Epicurean astronomy
6. The development of the cosmos
iii The early Stoics
1. Sources and background
2. The birth and death of the cosmos
3. Fire, pneuma and tension
4. Void and infinity
5. Gravity and the motion of the heavens
6. Teleology, providence and fate
13 - Theology
i Philosophical theology
ii Existence and attributes
iii The gods, the world and men
iv Knowledge of God
v Academic views and criticisms
14 - Explanation and causation
i Background
ii Stoic materialism
iii The Stoic analysis of causation
iv Antecedent causes
v The concept of preceding causes
vi Dispositions and powers
vii Causes and conditions
viii Causes and time
ix The Epicureans and causal explanation
x Teleology and mechanism
xi The limits of explanation: multiple explanations
xii The limits of explanation: empiricism
15 - Determinism and indeterminism
i The origins of the question
ii Logic and contingency
iii The Hellenistic response
iv The Epicurean position
v The Stoic response to the Master argument: fate and necessity
vi The Chrysippean notion of fate: soft determinism
vii Fate and responsibility: confatalia and the eph’ he–min
viii Divination and fate
ix Soft determinism
x Fate and moral progress
16 - Epicurean psychology
i Introduction
ii The psuche–
iii Physicalism and materialism
iv Epicurean physicalism
v Voluntary action
vi Conclusion
17 - Stoic psychology
i Introduction
ii The physical structure of the psuche and its location in the body
iii Rationality and the faculties of the mind
iv Concluding remarks
18 - Philosophy, science and medicine
i Philosophy and mathematics
ii Epicureanism and mathematics
iii Scepticism and geometry
iv Philosophy, astronomy and astrology
v Anatomy and philosophical questions
vi Medical knowledge and experience
vii Medical disputes and philosophical arguments
part v - ETHICS AND POLITICS
19 - The Socratic legacy
i Introduction
ii The Socratic presence in Greek ethics
iii Antisthenes and Diogenes – Cynic ethics
iv Crates and the literary transmission of Cynicism
v Aristippus and Cyrenaic hedonism
20 - Epicurean ethics
i Introduction
ii Ethics within the philosophy of Epicurus
iii Philosophical background
iv Pleasure and the foundation of ethics
v Pleasure as the goal
vi Desire and the limits of life
vii Virtue and friendship
viii Practice
21 - Stoic ethics
i Foundations and first principles
ii Oikeiosis and primary impulse
iii Cosmic nature and human nature
iv The goal of life
v The good
vi Values, actions and choice
vii Passions
viii Moral education and the problem of the passions
ix Virtue and wisdom
x Moral progress
xi Determinism and ethics: impulse with reservation
22 - Social and political thought
i Introduction
ii An overview
iii On kingship
iv Polybius on the growth and decline of constitutions
v Epicureanism on security
vi Zeno’s Republic
vii Justice, oikeiosis and the cosmic city
viii Retrospect
Epilogue
Appendix
Editions of sources and fragments
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index Locorum
