The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy

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Jacob Klein is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colgate University. He has been a Fulbright research fellow at the Humboldt University in Berlin and a Visiting Nelson Endowed Professor at the University of Michigan. Nathan Powers is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany. He has held a Whiting Foundation Honorific Fellowship in the Humanities and a Senior Research Fellowship at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

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The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy offers thirty essays by leading international scholars consolidating the scholarly gains of recent decades, highlighting the innovation and creativity of Hellenistic philosophy, providing an overview of the current state of scholarship, and pointing the way to new avenues of research.

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In the decades following the conquests of Alexander the Great, two major new schools of philosophy--the Epicureans and the Stoics--came to prominence in Athens, promoting starkly different worldviews and ways of life. Meanwhile Plato's Academy, an Athenian institution with a well-established tradition of dogmatism, unexpectedly gave birth to a vigorous form of skepticism that set itself in opposition to the doctrines of Stoicism and Epicureanism alike. Constantly in dialogue and debate with one another, these philosophical movements generated intense and productive controversies whose reverberations are felt even today. Pivotal though they were, the new philosophical developments of the so-called Hellenistic period are difficult to study: Few complete philosophical texts survive from the time, and scholarly progress requires painstaking analysis of fragmentary evidence and reports from later antiquity. Only in recent decades has scholarship begun to achieve a well-informed and philosophically sophisticated view of Hellenistic philosophy in its own right. The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy offers thirty essays by leading international scholars, framed by a general introduction from the editors. Organized around the prominent Epicurean, Stoic, and Academic schools, it offers a topical treatment of their characteristic doctrines and arguments and includes essays on their legacies at the end of the Hellenistic era, as the philosophical center of gravity in the Mediterranean world shifted from Athens to other cities. A final section considers the profound formative influence of each school in the early modern period, as European philosophers engaged closely with ancient Greek and Latin texts recovered in the Renaissance. This volume consolidates the scholarly gains of recent decades, highlights the innovation and creativity of Hellenistic philosophy, provides an overview of the current state of scholarship, and points the way to new avenues of research.

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• Acknowledgments

• List of Contributors

• Part I: Philosophy in the Hellenistic Age

• Introduction: Scope and Themes of Hellenistic Philosophy

• Jacob Klein and Nathan Powers

• 1: Cast of Characters: Major Figures of Hellenistic Philosophy

• A. A. Long

• 2: Our Sources for Hellenistic Philosophy

• Stephen White

• Part II: The Garden

• 3: The Principles of Epicurean Atomism

• Keimpe Algra

• 4: Order without Teleology: Epicurean Cosmogony, Theology, and Anthropology

• Francesco Verde

• 5: Canonic: The Epicurean Theory of Knowledge

• Christopher Taylor

• 6: Epicureans on Freedom and Responsibility

• James Warren

• 7: Epicurus on Living Blessedly

• Phillip Mitsis

• 8: Achieving Tranquility: Epicurus on Living without Fear

• Tim O'Keefe

• 9: Living with Others: Epicureans on Justice and Pity

• Elizabeth Asmis

• 10: Roman Epicureanism of the First Century BCE

• Jeffrey Fish and Kirk R.Sanders

• Part III: The Stoa

• 11: The Physics and Metaphysics of Stoic Corporealism

• Katerina Ierodiakonou

• 12: Stoic Theology and Providentialism

• Nathan Powers

• 13: The Stoic Cosmos, from End to Beginning

• Ricardo Salles

• 14: The Stoics on Language

• Luca Castagnoli

• 15: Stoic Logic

• Paolo Crivelli

• 16: The Stoics on Mental Representation

• Victor Caston

• 17: The Highest Good in Stoicism
  Jacob Klein

• 18: Stoic Emotion: The Why and the How of Eliminating All Emotions

• Rachana Kamtekar

• 19: The Stoics on Appropriate Action

• Georgia Tsouni

• 20: Fate, Cause, and Action in Stoicism

• Susan Sauvé Meyer

• 21: Chrysippus and Aristotle on Goods

• Terence Irwin

• 22: Stoicism Comes to Rome: A Century of Modest Change

• Brad Inwood

• Part IV: The Skeptical Academy

• 23: Arcesilaus and the Academy's Skeptical Turn

• James Allen

• 24: The Stoics and Carneades: Dialectic and the Holding of Views

• Richard Bett

• 25: Platonic Ethics from the Old to the New Academy

• J.P.F. Wynne

• 26: The Legacies of Academic Skepticism

• David Sedley

• 27: The Pyrrhonist Rejection of Academic Epistemology

• Whitney Schwab

• Part V: Early Modern Reception of Hellenistic Philosophy

• 28: Early Modern Accounts of Epicureanism

• Stewart Duncan and Antonia LoLordo

• 29: The Early Modern Legacy of the Stoics

• John Sellars

• 30: The Reception of Ancient Skepticism in Early Modern Europe

• Anton M. Matytsin

• Index