Prolepsis and Ennoia in the Early Stoa / / Henry Dyson.

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• VerfasserIn: Dyson, Henry,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Sozomena : Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts , 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (265 p.)

This book reconstructs the Stoic doctrine of prolepsis. Prolepses are conceptions that develop naturally from ordinary experience. They are often identified with preconceptions (i.e. the first conceptions one unconsciously forms of something). However, this is inconsistent with the Stoics’ claim tha...

Table of Contents

• 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 Πρόληψις, ΄ʹΕννοια, and Related Terms
• Appendix A: Epicurus and Later Epicureans
• Appendix B: The Early Stoa
• Appendix C: Cicero and Seneca
• Appendix D: Epictetus
• Appendix E: Plutarch
• Appendix F: Sextus Empiricus
• Appendix G: Alexander of Aphrodisias
• Appendix H: Alcinous
• Backmatter