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1 online resource (xv, 176 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 14
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McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 14.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-164) and indexes. |
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""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""I: Toward a New Interpretation of the Sceptics""; ""The Negative Side of Scepticism""; ""Standard Criticisms of the Sceptics""; ""The Positive Side of Scepticism: Mitigated Scepticism""; ""Moral and Religious Scepticism""; ""Scepticism as Anti-Realism""; ""Scepticism and Idealism""; ""Contemporary Anti-Realism""; ""Historiography and the Sceptics""; ""II: Greek Epistemology before the Rise of Scepticism""; ""Xenophanes""; ""Heracleitus""; ""Epicharmus""; ""Parmenides""; ""Zeno""; ""Empedocles""; ""Anaxagoras""; ""Summary"" |
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""III: The Rise of Scepticism""""The Sophists""; ""Democritus: Atomism, Idealism, and Equanimity""; ""Protagoras: Utility and Anti-Realist Truth""; ""Metrodorus and Anaxarchus: Idealism and Equanimity""; ""Socrates: Mitigated Scepticism""; ""The Megarians""; ""Monimus and Cynic Indifference""; ""The Cyrenaics: External Objects and Other Minds""; ""Plato""; ""The Rise of Scepticism""; ""IV: Early Pyrrhonism""; ""The Arguments for Early Pyrrhonism""; ""Pyrrhonism as a Practical Philosophy""; ""Equanimity and Indifference""; ""Appearances""; ""Pyrrhonism and Idealism"" |
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""The Consistency of Early Pyrrhonism""""Toward Later Pyrrhonism""; ""V: Scepticism in the Academy""; ""The Arguments for Academic Scepticism""; ""Academic Arguments, Probability, and Equal Opposition""; ""Academic Equanimity""; ""Arcesilaus and Natural Belief ""; ""The Consistency of Arcesilaus' Outlook""; ""Arcesilaus and Sextus""; ""Carneades and Plausibility""; ""Cicero on the Plausible ""; ""The Consistency of Carneades' Scepticism""; ""Carneades, Arcesilaus, and Pyrrho""; ""Philo, Metrodorus, and Cicero""; ""VI: Later Pyrrhonism""; ""The Arguments for Later Pyrrhonism"" |
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""The Problem of the Criterion""""Practical Affairs""; ""The Consistency of Later Pyrrhonism""; ""Pyrrhonean Anti-Realism""; ""The Standard Interpretations""; ""VII: Ancient Scepticism and Modern Epistemology""; ""Mental States""; ""Contemporary Anti-Realism""; ""The Sceptical Perspective""; ""Appendix: Flourishing Dates of Ancient Thinkers""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index Locorum""; ""Alcmaeon""; ""Aristotle""; ""Athenaeus""; ""Cicero""; ""Democritus""; ""Diogenes Laertius""; ""Empedocles""; ""Epicharmus""; ""Epictetus""; ""Euripides""; ""Eusebius""; ""Gellius""; ""Gorgias""; ""Heracleitus"" |
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""Hippolytus""""Lactantius""; ""Lucretius""; ""Marcus Aurelius""; ""Metrodorus""; ""Nausiphanes""; ""Parmenides""; ""Pausanias""; ""Philo of Alexandria""; ""Philostratus""; ""Photius""; ""Plato""; ""Plutarch""; ""Sextus Empiricus""; ""Simplicius""; ""Suidas""; ""Tertullian""; ""Theophrastus""; ""Xenophanes""; ""Xenophon""; ""Zeno""; ""General Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Z"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Skeptics (Greek philosophy)
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Skeptics (Greek philosophy) |
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Philosophy, Ancient. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Groarke, Leo, 1953- Greek scepticism. Montreal, Qué. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1990 (DLC) 91172089 |
| ISBN |
9780773562448 (electronic book) |
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0773562443 (electronic book) |
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0773507566 |
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9780773507562 |
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