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Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy Ancient Epistemology

Categorie	Filosofie
Boeknummer	#278273
Titel	Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy Ancient Epistemology
Auteur	Gerson, Lloyd P.
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Cambridge University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2009
ISBN10	0521691893
ISBN13	9780521691895
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	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 o... (Lees verder)f knowledge at which the ancient Skeptics took aim. The book concludes by comparing the ancient naturalistic epistemology with some contemporary versions.
Pagina's	179
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 20,00

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