TY  - BOOK
ED  - Karamanōlēs, Giōrgos E.
ED  - Politēs, Basileios
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018//
TI  - aporetic tradition in ancient philosophy
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - Cambridge
KW  - Aporia
KW  - Philosophy, Ancient
KW  - Methodology
AB  - Ancient philosophers from an otherwise diverse range of traditions were connected by their shared use of aporia - translated as puzzlement rooted in conflicts of reasons - as a core tool in philosophical enquiry. The essays in this volume provide the first comprehensive study of aporetic methodology among numerous major figures and influential schools, including the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Academic sceptics, Pyrrhonian sceptics, Plotinus and Damascius. They explore the differences and similarities in these philosophers' approaches to the source, structure, and aim of aporia, their views on its function and value, and ideas about the proper means of generating such a state among thinkers who were often otherwise opposed in their overall philosophical orientation. Discussing issues of method, dialectic, and knowledge, the volume will appeal to those interested in ancient philosophy and in philosophical enquiry more generally
SN  - 1107110157
LA  - English
N1  - edited by George Karamanolis, University of Vienna, Vasilis Politis, Trinity College Dublin
ID  - 1002711827
ER  -