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| ISBN13: | 9780190695170 |
| ISBN10: | 019069517X |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 762 pages |
| Size: | 248x171 mm |
| Weight: | 3 g |
| Language: | English |
| 700 |
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The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy
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Publisher: OUP USA
Date of Publication: 3 April 2025
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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.
Long description:
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.
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.
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
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
