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Luca Castagnoli

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Description:A self-refutation argument is any argument which aims at showing that (& how) a certain thesis is self-refuting. This is the 1st book-length treatment of ancient self-refutation & provides a unified account of what is distinctive in the ancient approach to the self-refutation argument, on the basis of close philological, logical & historical analysis of a variety of sources. It examines the logic, force & prospects of this original style of argumentation within the context of ancient philosophical debates, dispelling various misconceptions concerning its nature & purpose & elucidating some important differences which exist both within the ancient approach to self-refutation & between that approach, as a whole, & some modern counterparts of it. In providing a comprehensive account of ancient self-refutation, the book advances understanding of influential & debated texts & arguments from philosophers like Democritus, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, the Stoics, the Academic sceptics, the Pyrrhonists & Augustine.Introduction; Part 1. Truth, Falsehood & Self-Refutation: 1. Preliminaries; 2. A modern approach: Mackie on the absolute self-refutation of 'nothing is true'; 3. Setting the ancient stage: Dissoi Logoi 4.6; 4. Self-refutation & dialectic: Plato; 5. Speaking to Antiphasis: Aristotle; 6. Introducing peritroph: Sextus Empiricus; 7. Augustine's turn; 8. Interim conclusions; Part 2. Pragmatic, Ad Hominem & Operational Self-Refutation: 9. Epicurus against the determinist: blame & reversal; 10. Anti-sceptical dilemmas: pragmatic or ad hominem self-refutations?; 11. Must we philosophise? Aristotle's protreptic argument; 12. Augustine's 'Si fallor, sum': how to prove one's existence by Consequentia Mirabilis; 13. A step back: operational self-refutations in Plato; Part 3. Scepticism & Self-Refutation: 14. Self-bracketing Pyrrhonism: Sextus Empiricus; 15. Scepticism & self-refutation: looking backwards; ConclusionWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ancient Self-Refutation: The Logic and History of the Self-Refutation Argument from Democritus to Augustine. To get started finding Ancient Self-Refutation: The Logic and History of the Self-Refutation Argument from Democritus to Augustine, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: A self-refutation argument is any argument which aims at showing that (& how) a certain thesis is self-refuting. This is the 1st book-length treatment of ancient self-refutation & provides a unified account of what is distinctive in the ancient approach to the self-refutation argument, on the basis of close philological, logical & historical analysis of a variety of sources. It examines the logic, force & prospects of this original style of argumentation within the context of ancient philosophical debates, dispelling various misconceptions concerning its nature & purpose & elucidating some important differences which exist both within the ancient approach to self-refutation & between that approach, as a whole, & some modern counterparts of it. In providing a comprehensive account of ancient self-refutation, the book advances understanding of influential & debated texts & arguments from philosophers like Democritus, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, the Stoics, the Academic sceptics, the Pyrrhonists & Augustine.Introduction; Part 1. Truth, Falsehood & Self-Refutation: 1. Preliminaries; 2. A modern approach: Mackie on the absolute self-refutation of 'nothing is true'; 3. Setting the ancient stage: Dissoi Logoi 4.6; 4. Self-refutation & dialectic: Plato; 5. Speaking to Antiphasis: Aristotle; 6. Introducing peritroph: Sextus Empiricus; 7. Augustine's turn; 8. Interim conclusions; Part 2. Pragmatic, Ad Hominem & Operational Self-Refutation: 9. Epicurus against the determinist: blame & reversal; 10. Anti-sceptical dilemmas: pragmatic or ad hominem self-refutations?; 11. Must we philosophise? Aristotle's protreptic argument; 12. Augustine's 'Si fallor, sum': how to prove one's existence by Consequentia Mirabilis; 13. A step back: operational self-refutations in Plato; Part 3. Scepticism & Self-Refutation: 14. Self-bracketing Pyrrhonism: Sextus Empiricus; 15. Scepticism & self-refutation: looking backwards; ConclusionWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ancient Self-Refutation: The Logic and History of the Self-Refutation Argument from Democritus to Augustine. To get started finding Ancient Self-Refutation: The Logic and History of the Self-Refutation Argument from Democritus to Augustine, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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