Prolepsis and Ennoia in the Early Stoa
Series: Sozomena; Sozomena
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9783110212297
Description: This book offers a reconstruction of the early Stoic doctrine of prolepsis, revealing it to be much closer to Platonic recollection in certain respects than previously thought. The standard interpretation of prolepsis as preconceptions is inconsistent with their status as criteria of truth. Rather, prolepsis is a form of tacit knowledge that requires articulation and systematization. This reconstruction is supported by a comprehensive collection of texts relating to prolepsis from Epicurus to Alexander of Aphrodisias.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Frontmatter; Contents; Introduction: The Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge; Chapter One: Are Porlepses and Common Conceptions Identical?; Chapter Two: Prolepsis and Common Conceptions as Criteria of Truth; Chapter Three: Stages in the Development of Reason; Interim Conclusions: Meno's Paradox and the Early Stoa; Chapter Four: The Formation of Prolepses; Chapter Five: Prolepsis in Ordinary and Philosophical Cognition; Conclusion: Are the Stoics Empiricists or Rationalists?; Tables: The Usage of????????,??????a, and Related Terms; Appendix A: Epicurus and Later Epicureans.; title: Appendix B: The Early StoaAppendix C: Cicero and Seneca; Appendix D: Epictetus; Appendix E: Plutarch; Appendix F: Sextus Empiricus; Appendix G: Alexander of Aphrodisias; Appendix H: Alcinous; Backmatter.