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The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy

Jacob Klein, Nathan Powers (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
736 Seiten
2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-069517-0 (ISBN)
119,95 inkl. MwSt
The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy offers thirty essays by leading international scholars consolidating the scholarly gains of recent decades, highlighting the innovation and creativity of Hellenistic philosophy, providing an overview of the current state of scholarship, and pointing the way to new avenues of research.
In the decades following the conquests of Alexander the Great, two major new schools of philosophy--the Epicureans and the Stoics--came to prominence in Athens, promoting starkly different worldviews and ways of life. Meanwhile Plato's Academy, an Athenian institution with a well-established tradition of dogmatism, unexpectedly gave birth to a vigorous form of skepticism that set itself in opposition to the doctrines of Stoicism and Epicureanism alike. Constantly in dialogue and debate with one another, these philosophical movements generated intense and productive controversies whose reverberations are felt even today.

Pivotal though they were, the new philosophical developments of the so-called Hellenistic period are difficult to study: Few complete philosophical texts survive from the time, and scholarly progress requires painstaking analysis of fragmentary evidence and reports from later antiquity. Only in recent decades has scholarship begun to achieve a well-informed and philosophically sophisticated view of Hellenistic philosophy in its own right.

The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy offers thirty essays by leading international scholars, framed by a general introduction from the editors. Organized around the prominent Epicurean, Stoic, and Academic schools, it offers a topical treatment of their characteristic doctrines and arguments and includes essays on their legacies at the end of the Hellenistic era, as the philosophical center of gravity in the Mediterranean world shifted from Athens to other cities. A final section considers the profound formative influence of each school in the early modern period, as European philosophers engaged closely with ancient Greek and Latin texts recovered in the Renaissance. This volume consolidates the scholarly gains of recent decades, highlights the innovation and creativity of Hellenistic philosophy, provides an overview of the current state of scholarship, and points the way to new avenues of research.

Jacob Klein is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colgate University. He has been a Fulbright research fellow at the Humboldt University in Berlin and a Visiting Nelson Endowed Professor at the University of Michigan. Nathan Powers is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany. He has held a Whiting Foundation Honorific Fellowship in the Humanities and a Senior Research Fellowship at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Introduction by Jacob Klein and Nathan Powers
1. The Cast of Characters: Major Figures of Hellenistic Philosophy by A.A. Long
2. Our Sources for Hellenistic Philosophy by Stephen White
3. The Principles of Epicurean Atomisn by Keimpe Algra
4. Order without Teleology: Epicurean Cosmogony, Theology, and Anthropology by Frencesco Verde
5. Canonic: The Epicurean Theory of Knowledge by Christopher Taylor
6. Epicureans on Freedom and Responsibility by James Warren
7. Epicurus on Living Blessedly by Philip Mitsis
8. Achieving Tranquility: Epicurus on Living without Fear by Timothy O'Keefe
9. Living with Others: Epicureans on Justice and Pity by Elizabeth Asmis
10. Roman Epicureanism of the 1st c. BCE by Jeffrey Fish and Kirk Sanders
11. The Physics and Metaphysics of Stoic Corporealism by Katerina Ierodiakonou
12. Stoic Theology and Providentialism by Nathan Powers
13. The Stoic Cosmos, From End to Beginning by Ricardo Salles
14. The Stoics on Language by Luca Castagnoli
15. Stoic Logic by Paolo Crivelli
16. The Stoics on Mental Representation by Victor Caston
17. The Highest Good in Stoicism by Jacob Klein
18. Stoic Emotion: The Why and the How of Eliminating All Emotions by Rachana Kamtekar
19. Fate, Cause, and Action in Stoicism by Susan Sauvé Meyer
20. Chrysippus and Aristotle on Goods by Terence Irwin
21. The Stoics on Appropriate Action by Georgia Tsouni
22. Stoicism Comes to Rome: A Century of Modest Change by Brad Inwood
23. Arcesilaus and the Academy's Sceptical Turn by James Allen
24. The Stoics and Carneades: Dialectic and the Holding of Views by Richard Bett
25. Platonic Ethics from the Old to the New Academy by John Wynne
26. The Legacies of Academic Scepticism by David Sedley
27. The Pyrrhonist Rejection of Academic Epistemology by Whitney Schwab
28. Early Modern Accounts of Epicureanism by Stewart Duncan and Anna LoLordo
29. The Early Modern Legacy of the Stoics by John Sellars
30. The Reception of Ancient Scepticism in Early Modern Europe by Anton Matytsin

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.5.2025
Reihe/Serie Oxford Handbooks
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 171 x 248 mm
Gewicht 3 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10 0-19-069517-X / 019069517X
ISBN-13 978-0-19-069517-0 / 9780190695170
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