Essays in ancient philosophy /
These essays deal with epistemological issues faced by the Stoics and the Sceptics, and with several branches of learning - medicine and grammar - that were once closely linked to philosophy. Also included are papers on Plato, and on Aristotle's ""Categories"", and an introd...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : The study of ancient philosophy
- Observations on perception in Plato's later dialogues
- Title, unity, and authenticity of the Aristotelian categories
- Categories in Aristotle
- Individuals in Aristotle
- Substance in Aristotle's metaphysics
- Unity of general and special metaphysics : Aristotle's conception of metaphysics
- Stoic vs. Aristotelian syllogists
- Original notion of cause
- Stoics and Skeptics on clear and distinct impressions
- Skeptic's beliefs
- Skeptic's two kinds of assent and the question of the possibility of knowledge
- Philosophy and medicine in antiquity
- Ancient empiricists
- Method of the so-called Methodical School of medicine
- On Galen's epistemology
- Principles of Stoic grammar
- Origins of traditional grammar.