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The Sceptical Road: Aenesidemus’ Appropriation of Heraclitus

By Roberto Polito

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2004
ISBN
9004137424, 9789004137424
ISSN
0079-1687
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2281768 bytes)
Series
Philosophia Antiqua 96
Pages
x+206\217
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2016-07-08 08:49:29
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The revival of Scepticism in the first century B.C. is due to Aenesidemus of Cnossus. Nonetheless, very little is known of him, and much of it seems to suggest that his thought tended more towards Dogmatism, and Heraclitean philosophy in particular. The puzzle has set the scene for a long-term debate, but, as yet, no agreed solution has been propounded. The present book provides a close examination of ancient evidence as well as of critical literature, and arrives at the conclusion that Aenesidemus merely intended to offer a Sceptical interpretation of Heraclitus, and that the ideas which are incorporated in it voice distinctive features of his Scepticism.

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