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

• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (258 pages)
• Disciplina: 180
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy, Ancient; Polemics
• Persona (resp. second.): WeisserSharon; ThalerNaly <1973->
• 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?
• Titolo autorizzato: Strategies of polemics in Greek and Roman Philosophy
• ISBN: 90-04-32304-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827560203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; ; VOLUME 21.