ISBN:
9789400721531
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XI, 134 p, online resource)
Series Statement:
Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind 10
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Druckausg.
Keywords:
Epistemology
;
Philosophy of mind
;
Philosophy
;
Philosophy
;
Epistemology
;
Philosophy of mind
Abstract:
This book is about the epistemological views and arguments of the early Stoics. It discusses such questions as: How is knowledge possible, and what is it? How do we perceive things and acquire notions of them? Should we rely on arguments? How do we come to make so many mistakes? The author tries to give a comprehensive and conservative account of Stoic epistemology as a whole as it was developed by Chrysippus. He emphasizes how the epistemological views of the Stoics are interrelated among themselves and with views from Stoic physics and logic. There are a number of Stoic views and arguments that we will never know about. But there are passages on Stoic epistemology in Sextus Empiricus, Galen, Plutarch, Cicero, and a few others authors. The book is like a big jigsaw puzzle of these scattered pieces of evidence
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction1. From Zeno to Chrysippus -- 2. Nurtured by Nature -- 3. Our thoughts and their objects -- 4. Knowledge and mistakes -- 5. Our progress towards virtue -- 6. From Carneades to Cicero -- Bibliography.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-2153-1
