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