The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy
Jacob Klein, "The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy "
English | ISBN: 019069517X | 2025 | 736 pages | PDF | 11 MB
English | ISBN: 019069517X | 2025 | 736 pages | PDF | 11 MB
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.
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