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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798440103321

Titolo

Strategies of polemics in Greek and Roman philosophy / / edited by Sharon Weisser and Naly Thaler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

90-04-32304-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 pages)

Collana

Jerusalem studies in religion and culture, , 1570-078X ; ; Volume 21

Disciplina

180

Soggetti

Philosophy, Ancient

Polemics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Sharon Weisser and Naly Thaler -- The Continuation of Philosophy by Other Means? / André Laks -- The Young Dogs of Eristic: Dialectic and Eristic in the Early Academy / Christopher Shields -- A Hidden Argument in Plato’s Theaetetus / Naly Thaler -- Polemical Arguments about Pleasure: The Controversy within and around the Academy / Charlotte Murgier -- The Politics of Aristotle’s Criticism of Plato’s Republic / Jozef Müller -- Cyrenaics and Epicureans on Pleasure and the Good Life: The Original Debate and Its Later Revivals / Voula Tsouna -- Polemics in Translation: Lucretius / Daniel Marković -- The Perfidious Strategy; or, the Platonists against Stoicism / Mauro Bonazzi -- Vehementia: A Rhetorical Basis of Polemics in Roman Philosophy / Carlos Lévy -- The Art of Quotation: Plutarch and Galen against Chrysippus / Sharon Weisser -- The Invisible Adversary: Anti-Christian Polemic in Proclus’s Commentary on the Republic of Plato / Robert Lamberton -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Strategies of Polemics in Greek and Roman Philosophy brings together papers written by specialists in the field of ancient philosophy on the topic of polemics. Despite the central role played by polemics in ancient philosophy, the forms and mechanisms of philosophical polemics are not usually the subject of systematic scholarly attention. The present volume seeks to shed new light on familiar texts by approaching them from this neglected angle. The contributions address



questions such as: What is the role of polemic in a philosophical discourse? What were the polemical strategies developed by ancient philosophers? To what extent did polemics contribute to the shaping of important philosophical doctrines or standpoint?