Hellenistic Philosophy

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Hellenistic Philosophy
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Contents
Detailed Contents
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1: What, When, Where, and Who
	Epicurus’s Garden
	Zeno and the Painted Stoa
	The Academy Turns Sceptic
	Aristotelians and Others
2: Knowledge
	Epicurean Epistemology
	Stoic Logic and Epistemology
	The Academic Response
	Arguments in the Academy
	The Pyrrhonist Revival
	Pyrrho and Timon
3: Nature
	Hellenistic Metaphysics
	The Stoic Cosmos
	Peripatetic Objections
	Epicurean Physics
	Hellenistic Theology and Academic Objections
	Cicero on the Gods
4: The Self
	Epicurean Souls
	Lucretius on Mind-Soul-Body
	Epicurus Contra Democritus
	Stoic Breath
	Peripatetic Breath
5: The Good
	The Stoics on What is Good
	Stoics Versus Peripatetics
	Panaetius on Personae
	Hellenistic Cynics
	Epicureans on Pleasure
	Peripatetic Hedonism?
6: Free Will
	Diodorus Cronus and Chrysippus on Logical Determinism
	Chrysippus on Physical Determinism
	Epicurus Contra Democritus
	Lucretius on Swerves
	Carneades’ Distinctions
	Cicero’s Contribution
7: Finitude
	Cleanthes on Fate
	Preparing for Future Evils
	Epicureans on Death
	Academics on the Limits of Human Knowledge
	Peripatetics on the Limits of Self-Sufficiency
8: Community
	Stoic Cosmopolitanism
	Stoic Political Role Play
	Epicurus on Justice
	Epicurean Friendship
	Cicero’s Political Theory
9: What Was Hellenistic Philosophy?
	Philosophy as Medicine
	Epicurean Therapy
	Stoic Remedies
	Pyrrhonian Cures
	Academic Therapy
	Peripatetics Out of Step?
	From Athens to Alexandria
APPENDIX: Looking East
Chronology
Guide to Hellenistic Philosophers
Guide to Further Reading
	Ancient Texts
	Modern Studies
Bibliography
Index of Passages
Index