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"From Aristotle to Cicero: Essays on Ancient Philosophy draws together a selection of Gisela Striker's essays from the last forty years in the areas of research for which she is best known. The first two essays are translated from German: they address specific questions in Aristotle's...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
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English German |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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"From Aristotle to Cicero: Essays on Ancient Philosophy draws together a selection of Gisela Striker's essays from the last forty years in the areas of research for which she is best known. The first two essays are translated from German: they address specific questions in Aristotle's logic and also complement her commentary on Prior Analytics I. Following on from these, there are three papers on Aristotle's ethics and moral psychology, and the second part of the volume presents five recent studies on Hellenistic epistemology and ethics. Three of the essays have not been published previously"-- |
| Carrier Form: | x, 262 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-249) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9780198868385 0198868383 |
| Index Number: | B171 |
| CLC: | B502 |
| Call Number: | B502/S917 |
| Contents: | Aristotle on Syllogisms 'from a Hypothesis' -- Necessity with gaps -- Assertoric vs. modal syllogistic -- Perfection and reduction in Aristotle's prior analytics -- Aristotle and the uses of logic -- Aristotle's three theories of argument -- The 'Analysis' of Aristotle's analytics -- A note on the ontology of Aristotle's categories, Chapter 2 -- Emotions in context -- Aristotle's Ethics as political science -- Two kinds of deliberation : Aristotle and the Stoics -- Academics fighting academics -- Scepticism as a kind of philosophy -- Epicurean epistemology -- Mental health and moral health : moral progress in Seneca's Letters -- Panaetius Peri tou kathēkontos in Cicero's De Officiis. |