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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2012
      February 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511801730
      9780521871396
      9780521691895
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511801730
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.44kg, 190 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.32kg, 190 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Philosophy, Philosophy: General Interest, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy
      Series:
      Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy
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    Subjects:
    Classical Philosophy, Philosophy: General Interest, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy
    Series:
    Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy
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    This is the first title in the Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy series, which provides concise books, written by major scholars and accessible to non-specialists, on important themes in ancient philosophy which remain of philosophical interest today. In this book, Professor Gerson explores ancient accounts of the nature of knowledge and belief from the Presocratics up to the Platonists of late antiquity. He argues that ancient philosophers generally held a naturalistic view of knowledge as well as of belief. Hence, knowledge was not viewed as a stipulated or semantically determined type of belief but was rather a real or objectively determinable achievement. In fact, its attainment was identical with the highest possible cognitive achievement, namely wisdom. It was this naturalistic view of knowledge at which the ancient Skeptics took aim. The book concludes by comparing the ancient naturalistic epistemology with some contemporary versions.

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