| Description |
1 online resource (i, 248 pages) |
| Series |
Jerusalem studies in religion and culture, 1570-078X ; VOLUME 21 |
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Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 21.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; The Continuation of Philosophy by Other Means?; The Young Dogs of Eristic: Dialectic and Eristic in the Early Academy; A Hidden Argument in Plato's Theaetetus; Polemical Arguments about Pleasure: The Controversy within and around the Academy; The Politics of Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Republic; Cyrenaics and Epicureans on Pleasure and the Good Life: The Original Debate and Its Later Revivals; Polemics in Translation: Lucretius; The Perfidious Strategy; or, the Platonists against Stoicism |
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Vehementia: A Rhetorical Basis of Polemics in Roman PhilosophyThe Art of Quotation: Plutarch and Galen againstChrysippus; The Invisible Adversary: Anti-Christian Polemic in Proclus's Commentary on the Republic of Plato; Index |
| Summary |
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 subject of systematic scholarly attention. The present volume seeks to shed new light on familiar texts by approaching them from this neglected angle. The contributions address questions such as: What is the role of polemic in a philosophical discourse? What were the polemical strategies developed by ancient philosophers? To what extent did polemics contribute to the shaping of important philosophical doctrines or standpoint? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 23, 2016) |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Ancient.
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Polemics.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
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Philosophy, Ancient
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Polemics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Weisser, Sharon, editor
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Thaler, Naly, 1973- editor.
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| LC no. |
2016021442 |
| ISBN |
9789004323049 |
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900432304X |
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