A. A. Long, D. N. SedleyCambridge University Press, 10/12/1989EAN 9780521275576, ISBN10: 0521275571Paperback, 524 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 3 cmThis comprehensive sourcebook makes available in the original Latin and Greek the principal extant texts required for the study of the Stoic, Epicurean and sceptical schools of philosophy. The material is organised by schools, and within each school topics are treated thematically. The volume presents the same texts (with some additional passages) as are translated in The Hellenistic Philosophers, Volume 1. The authors provide their own critical apparatus, and also supply detailed notes on the more difficult texts. This volume is equipped with a large annotated bibliography.PrefaceIntroductionPart I. Early Pyrrhonism1. Scepticism, tranquillity and virtue2. Timon's polemicsPart II. Epicureanism3. Physics4. Epistemology5. EthicsPart III. Stoicism6. The philosophical curriculum7. Ontology logic and semantics8. Epistemology (stoics and academics)9. Physics10. EthicsPart IV. The Academics11. Methodology12. Living without opinions13. Contributions to philosophical debates14. The Pyrrhonist revival15. Why to suspend judgement16. How to suspend judgementBibliography.'... the Long and Sedley collection The Hellenistic Philosophers, now complete with the second volume ... which includes the Greek and Latin texts briefly annotated and a huge bibliographie raisonnee of 655 items ... will shape the study of ancient philosophy for at least the next generation. I cannot imagine what reader of Phronesis would not find life without it inconceivable.' Phronesis
