Self-Intellection and Its Epistemological Origins in Ancient Greek Thought (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: November 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780754630579
Subjects: Ancient Greek & Roman philosophy; Epistemology, theory of knowledge; BCE to c 500 CE; Philosophy; Ancient Greece; Movements - Humanism; History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical; Greece; History; Knowledge, Theory of; Philosophy, Ancient; Self-knowledge, Theory of
Description: "Ian Crystal traces the origins from which the concept of self-intellection springs, by examining Plato's account of the epistemic subject and the emergence of self-intellection through the Aristotelian account, before the final part of the book explores the problem of how the intellect apprehends itself, and its resolution including Plotinus' reformulation and the dilemma raised by Sextus Empiricus. Crystal concludes that Plotinus recasts the metaphysical structures of Plato and Aristotle in such a way that he casts the concept of self-intellection in an entirely new light and offers a solution to the problem."--Jacket.