The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy

Keimpe Algra, Jonathan Barnes, Professor of Ancient Philosophy Jonathan Barnes, Jaap Mansfeld, Malcolm Schofield

Cambridge University Press, Dec 9, 1999 - Philosophy - 916 pages

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.

Contents

• Why so much has been lost: 3
• Primary sources: 5
• Secondary sources: 6
• Stoic epistemology: 9
• Quellenforschung: 16
• Genres vi Doxography: 17
• On sects: 19
• Successions: 23
• Biography: 25
• Fragments: 26
• Tradition and reception: 29
• Chronology by Tizi Ano DoRAND1 Chercheur at the CNRS Paris 1 Introduction: 31
• The Peripatos: 35
• The Stoa: 37
• The Garden: 43
• Pyrrhonists: 46
• Minor Socratics: 47
• Survey: 48
• Successions of scholarchs: 53
• Organization and structure of the philosophical schools by Tizi ANo Do RAND1: 55
• by JonATHAN BARNes Professor of Ancient Philosophy University: 65
• Logic: 77
• Language: 177
• EPISTEMOLOGY: 229
• Epicurean epistemology: 260
• by Michael FREDE Professor of the History of Philosophy: 295
• 1o Academic epistemology: 323
• PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS: 355
• Cosmology: 412
• Theology: 452
• Existence and attributes: 454
• The gods the world and men: 462
• Knowledge of God: 469
• Academic views and criticisms: 475
• Explanation and causation by R J HANKINson Professor of Philosophy University of Texas at Austin I Background: 479
• Stoic materialism: 481
• The Stoic analysis of causation: 483
• Antecedent causes: 487
• The concept of preceding causes: 490
• Dispositions and powers: 491
• vil Causes and conditions: 494
• Causes and time: 497
• The Epicureans and causal explanation: 498
• Teleology and mechanism: 503
• multiple explanations: 505
• empiricism: 507
• Determinism and indeterminism by R J HANKINson 1 The origins of the question: 513
• Logic and contingency: 516
• The Hellenistic response: 517
• The Epicurean position: 522
• fate and necessity: 526
• soft determinism: 529
• confatalia and the ephhēmin: 531
• Divination and fate: 534
• Soft determinism: 537
• Fate and moral progress: 540
• Epicurean psychology by Stephen EveRson Professor of Philosophy University of Michigan I Introduction: 542
• The psuché: 543
• Physicalism and materialism: 546
• Epicurean physicalism: 550
• Voluntary action: 553
• Conclusion: 558
• 2O Stoic psychology by A A LoNG Irving Stone Professor of Literature in the Department of Classics University of California at Berkeley I Introduc...: 560
• The physical structure of the psuché and its location in the body: 562
• Rationality and the faculties of the mind: 572
• Concluding remarks: 584
• Philosophy science and medicine by GIUSE PPE CAMBIANo Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Turin I Philosophy and mathemat...: 585
• Epicureanism and mathematics: 587
• Scepticism and geometry: 590
• Philosophy astronomy and astrology: 595
• Anatomy and philosophical questions: 599
• Medical knowledge and experience: 604
• Medical disputes and philosophical arguments: 608
• PART V: 615
• The Socratic legacy by A A Long I Introduction: 617
• The Socratic presence in Greek ethics: 618
• Antisthenes and DiogenesCynicethics: 623
• Crates and the literary transmission of Cynicism: 629
• Aristippus and Cyrenaichedonism: 632
• Socratic ethics and Hellenistic scepticism: 639
• Epicurean ethics by Michael ERLER Professor of Classics University of Würzburg and MALcol M SCHOFIELD I Introduction: 642
• Ethics within the philosophy of Epicurus: 644
• Philosophical background: 647
• Pleasure and the foundation of ethics: 648
• Pleasure as the goal: 651
• Desire and the limits of life: 657
• Virtue and friendship: 666
• Practice: 669
• Stoic ethics by BRAD IN woodProfessor of Classics University of Toronto and Pierluigi Donini Professor of the History of Philosophy at the State Un...: 675
• Oikeiôsis and primary impulse: 677
• Cosmic nature and human nature: 682
• The goal of life: 684
• The good: 687
• Values actions and choice: 690
• Passions: 699
• Moral education and the problem of the passions: 705
• Virtue and wisdom 71 4: 714
• Moral progress: 724
• impulse with reservation: 736
• Social and political thought by MAlcolm Schofield I Introduction: 739
• An overview: 740
• On kingship: 742
• Polybius on the growth and decline of constitutions: 744
• Epicureanism on security: 748
• Zenos Republic: 756
• vil Justice oikeiôsis and the cosmic city: 760
• Retrospect: 769
• Epilogue: 771
• Synopsis offrincipal events: 798
• Editions ofsources andfragments: 805
• List of abbreviations: 820
• Bibliography: 828
• Index locorum: 876
• General index: 907

About the author

Jonathan Barnes has a BSc in Biological Sciences from the University of Sussex. He has been writing since the age of 21 and under a pseudonym has published four novels. He cam across the Bates method in 1983 and, as a wearer of glasses himself, decided to investigate it from a biologist's viewpoint. He found it logical and consistent, and since practising it has been able to improve his eyesight and discard his glasses.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy; Cambridge Histories Online; The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy, Keimpe Algra
• Editors: Keimpe Algra, Jonathan Barnes, Professor of Ancient Philosophy Jonathan Barnes, Jaap Mansfeld, Malcolm Schofield
• Contributor: Cambridge University Press
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0521250285, 9780521250283
• Length: 916 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical