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    The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy

    The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy by Klein, Jacob; Powers, Nathan;

    Series: Oxford Handbooks;

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    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 3 April 2025

    • ISBN 9780190695170
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages762 pages
    • Size 246x175x55 mm
    • Weight 1406 g
    • Language English
    • 700

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    Short description:

    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.

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    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.

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    Table of Contents:

    Acknowledgments
    List of Contributors
    Part I: Philosophy in the Hellenistic Age
    Introduction: Scope and Themes of Hellenistic Philosophy
    Jacob Klein and Nathan Powers
    Cast of Characters: Major Figures of Hellenistic Philosophy
    A. A. Long
    Our Sources for Hellenistic Philosophy
    Stephen White
    Part II: The Garden
    The Principles of Epicurean Atomism
    Keimpe Algra
    Order without Teleology: Epicurean Cosmogony, Theology, and Anthropology
    Francesco Verde
    Canonic: The Epicurean Theory of Knowledge
    Christopher Taylor
    Epicureans on Freedom and Responsibility
    James Warren
    Epicurus on Living Blessedly
    Phillip Mitsis
    Achieving Tranquility: Epicurus on Living without Fear
    Tim O'Keefe
    Living with Others: Epicureans on Justice and Pity
    Elizabeth Asmis
    Roman Epicureanism of the First Century BCE
    Jeffrey Fish and Kirk R.Sanders
    Part III: The Stoa
    The Physics and Metaphysics of Stoic Corporealism
    Katerina Ierodiakonou
    Stoic Theology and Providentialism
    Nathan Powers
    The Stoic Cosmos, from End to Beginning
    Ricardo Salles
    The Stoics on Language
    Luca Castagnoli
    Stoic Logic
    Paolo Crivelli
    The Stoics on Mental Representation
    Victor Caston
    The Highest Good in Stoicism
    Jacob Klein
    Stoic Emotion: The Why and the How of Eliminating All Emotions
    Rachana Kamtekar
    The Stoics on Appropriate Action
    Georgia Tsouni
    Fate, Cause, and Action in Stoicism
    Susan Sauvé Meyer
    Chrysippus and Aristotle on Goods
    Terence Irwin
    Stoicism Comes to Rome: A Century of Modest Change
    Brad Inwood
    Part IV: The Skeptical Academy
    Arcesilaus and the Academy's Skeptical Turn
    James Allen
    The Stoics and Carneades: Dialectic and the Holding of Views
    Richard Bett
    Platonic Ethics from the Old to the New Academy
    J.P.F. Wynne
    The Legacies of Academic Skepticism
    David Sedley
    The Pyrrhonist Rejection of Academic Epistemology
    Whitney Schwab
    Part V: Early Modern Reception of Hellenistic Philosophy
    Early Modern Accounts of Epicureanism
    Stewart Duncan and Antonia LoLordo
    The Early Modern Legacy of the Stoics
    John Sellars
    The Reception of Ancient Skepticism in Early Modern Europe
    Anton M. Matytsin
    Index

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