Ancient Epistemology Paperback / softback
by Lloyd P. (University of Toronto) Gerson
Part of the Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy series
Paperback / softback
Description
This is the first title in the Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy series, which provides concise books, written by major scholars and accessible to non-specialists, on important themes in ancient philosophy which remain of philosophical interest today.
In this book, Professor Gerson explores ancient accounts of the nature of knowledge and belief from the Presocratics up to the Platonists of late antiquity.
He argues that ancient philosophers generally held a naturalistic view of knowledge as well as of belief.
Hence, knowledge was not viewed as a stipulated or semantically determined type of belief but was rather a real or objectively determinable achievement.
In fact, its attainment was identical with the highest possible cognitive achievement, namely wisdom.
It was this naturalistic view of knowledge at which the ancient Skeptics took aim.
The book concludes by comparing the ancient naturalistic epistemology with some contemporary versions.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:190 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:12/02/2009
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- ISBN:9780521691895
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:190 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:12/02/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521691895
