Dialectic after Plato and Aristotle
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Dialectic after Plato and Aristotle

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Dialectic after Plato and Aristotle

About this book

Ancient dialectic started as an art of refutation and evolved into a science akin to our logic, grammar and linguistics. Scholars of ancient philosophy have traditionally focused on Plato's and Aristotle's dialectic without paying much attention to the diverse conceptions and uses of dialectic presented by philosophers after the classical period. To bridge this gap, this volume aims at a comprehensive understanding of the competing Hellenistic and Imperial definitions of dialectic and their connections with those of the classical period. It starts from the Megaric school of the fourth century BCE and the early Peripatetics, via Epicurus, the Stoics, the Academic sceptics and Cicero, to Sextus Empiricus and Galen in the second century CE. The philosophical foundations and various uses of dialectic are closely analysed and systematically examined together with the numerous objections that were raised against them.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Contents
  6. Contributors
  7. Preface
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Introduction: Dialectics in Dialogue
  10. Chapter 1 Megara and Dialectic
  11. Chapter 2 Dialectic in the Early Peripatos
  12. Chapter 3 Epicurus on Dialectic
  13. Chapter 4 Dialectic as a Subpart of Stoic Philosophy
  14. Chapter 5 Stoic Dialectic and Its Objects
  15. Chapter 6 Dialectic in the Hellenistic Academy
  16. Chapter 7 Pithana and probabilia
  17. Chapter 8 Terminology and Practice of Dialectic in Cicero's Letters
  18. Chapter 9 The Sceptic's Modes of Argumentation
  19. Chapter 10 Galen and Middle Platonists on Dialectic and Knowledge
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index of Names
  22. Index of Passages