Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy -2 Vol.Set
- New York Cambridge University 2012
- 382p
includes index and biblioraphy
Vol.I PART I: LOGIC AND DIALECTIC 1 Protagoras and self-refutation in later Greek philosophy 2 Protagoras and self-refutation in Plato`s Theaetetus 3 The upside-down back-to-front sceptic of Lucretius iv.472 4 Antipater and self-refutation: elusive arguments in Cicero`s Academica 5 Gods and heaps 6 The origins of non-deductive inference 7 Enthymeme: Aristotle on the logic of persuasion PART II. SCEPTICISM ANCIENT AND MODERN 8 Can the sceptic live his scepticism? 9 Tranquillity without a stop: Timon, frag. 68 10 Idealism and Greek philosophy: what Descartes saw and Berkeley missed 11 Conflicting appearances 12 The sceptic in his place and time 13 Dissoi logoi Vol.II PART I: KNOWLEDGE 1 Examples in epistemology: Socrates, Theaetetus and G. E. Moore 2 Socratic midwifery, Platonic inspiration 3 The philosophical sense of Theaetetus` mathematics 4 Plato on the grammar of perceiving 5 Socrates and the jury: paradoxes in Plato`s distinction between knowledge and true belief 6 Aristotle on understanding knowledge 7 Platonism and mathematics: a prelude to discussion 8 Wittgenstein and Augustine De magistro PART II: PHILOSOPHY AND THE GOOD LIFE 9 Message from Heraclitus 10 Virtues in action 11 The impiety of Socrates 12 The passion of reason in Plato`s Phaedrus 13 Aristotle on learning to be good 14 Did the ancient Greeks have the concept of human rights? 15 Sphinx without a secret 16 First words Part.1 Logic and Dialectic, Part.Ii Scepticism Ancient and Modern.-- Part.I Knowledge, Part.Ii Philosophy and the Good Life. V1. V2.