Dialectic after Plato and Aristotle

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Katerina Ierodiakonou Edited by Thomas BénatouïlCambridge University Press, 11/15/2018EAN 9781108471909, ISBN10: 1108471900Hardcover, 330 pages, 23.5 x 15.8 x 2.5 cmLanguage: Engli shAncient 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.Introductiondialectics in dialogue Thomas Bénatouïl1. Megara and dialectic James Allen2. Dialectic in the early Peripatos Paolo Crivelli3. Epicurus on dialectic David Sedley4. Dialectic as a subpart of stoic philosophy Katerina Ierodiakonou5. Stoic dialectic and its objects Jean-Baptiste Gourinat6. Dialectic in the Hellenistic Academy Luca Castagnoli7. Pithana and Probabilia Tobias Reinhardt8. Terminology and practice of dialectic in Cicero's letters Sophie Aubert-Baillot9. The sceptic's modes of argumentation Benjamin Morison10. Galen and middle Platonists on dialectic and knowledge Riccardo Chiaradonna. Show more