The Stoics on Ambiguity

ISBN-13: 9780521441391 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 584 str.

Catherine Atherton

Opis

Stoic work on ambiguity represents one of the most innovative, sophisticated and rigorous contributions to philosophy and the study of language in Western antiquity. This book is both the first comprehensive survey of the often difficult and scattered sources and the first attempt to locate Stoic material in the rich array of contexts, ancient and modern, which alone can guarantee full appreciation of its subtlety, scope and complexity. It is designed to be accessible to readers with no Greek or Latin.

Recenzje

"Atherton has written a book which...will be profitably consulted by a readership that includes not only specialists in ancient thought but alos classicists in general, philosophers and scholars of literature and linguistics. ...her book is virtually a composite of several interconnecting studies--of Stoic philosophy, ancient linguistics, logic and rhetoric, and of perspectives on ambiguity drawn from modern theory. The format of the book is carefully organized...." A.A. Long, Ancient Philosophy

Spis treści

Preface and acknowledgements; Typographical conventions; List of abbreviations; 1. The scope of this book; 2. Sources and materials; 3. Morality talks: the origins and limits of Stoic interest in ambiguity; 4. The Stoic definition of ambiguity; 5. The Stoic classifications 1: the sources; 6. The Stoic classifications 2: Stoic types of ambiguity; 7. Ambiguity and the fallacy; 8. The influence of Stoic teaching; 9. A survey of conclusions; Appendix: the classification of linguistic fallacies in Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations; Bibliography; Index locorum; General index.