Gisela Striker
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 461176 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gisela Striker |
| PRENOMES | Gisela |
| SOBRENOME | Striker |
| ASSINATURA | STRIKER G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
From Aristotle to Cicero
This collection draws together a selection of Gisela Striker' essays on ancient philosophy published over a period of forty years. There is first a series of papers on Aristotle's logic, complementing her translation and commentary on Aristotle's Analytics book I, two of them translated from German. These are followed by three essays on Aristotle's ethics and moral psychology and a short paper on his metaphysics. The last five chapters include st…
Episteme, etc
"The sixteen essays written in honour of Jonathan Barnes for this volume reflect the impressive scope of his contributions to philosophy. Six are on knowledge, five on logic and metaphysics, five on ethics. The volume ranges widely over ancient philosophy, while also finding room for for two contemporary papers on truth and vagueness. Aristotle is prominent in eight of the essays; Plato, Sextus Empiricus, the Stoics, the Epicureans, and ancient G…
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism
This volume offers a comprehensive survey of the main periods, schools, and individual proponents of scepticism in the ancient Greek and Roman world. The contributors examine the major developments chronologically and historically, ranging from the early antecedents of scepticism to the Pyrrhonist tradition. They address the central philosophical and interpretive problems surrounding the sceptics' ideas on subjects including belief, action, and e…
Academics versus Pyrrhonists, reconsidered
When I first wrote a paper about the difference between Academic and Pyrrhonist Sceptics a long time ago, I was less interested in the differences than in the commonalities. My point was to get away from the Humean distinction between moderate Academics and radical Pyrrhonists. I argued that both were radicals - not, as they came to be seen in early modern times, dogmatists who denied the possibility of knowledge more or less generally, but in th…
Clarendon Aristotle Series: Prior Analytics: Book I
The Virtuous Life in Greek Ethics
There is now a renewed concern for moral psychology among moral philosophers. Moreover, contemporary philosophers interested in virtue, moral responsibility and moral progress regularly refer to Plato and Aristotle, the two founding fathers of ancient ethics. The book contains eleven chapters by distinguished scholars which showcase current research in Greek ethics. Four deal with Plato, focusing on the Protagoras, Euthydemus, Symposium and Repub…
Historical Reflections on Classical Pyrrhonism and Neo‐Pyrrhonism
This essay argues that ancient Pyrrhonists did not decide to suspend judgment, but rather claimed to have found themselves unable to arrive at any judgment. By giving up the attempt, they also claimed to have unexpectedly reached tranquility, then followed the customs of ordinary life without ever claiming to have found the truth. This anti-rational attitude is not likely to be typical of ordinary people, nor would it seem desirable to modern def…
Stoic Studies
Assent and Argument
These ten essays on Cicero's Academic Books (the Academia and Lucullus) deal with various aspects of Academic scepticism, ancient epistemology, and the history of the Academy. The tradition from Socrates through to Galen is covered, with special emphasis on Carneades, Antiochus and, of course, Cicero himself.
Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics
The doctrines of the Hellenistic Schools - Epicureans, Stoics, and Sceptics - are known to have had a formative influence on later thought, but because the primary sources are lost, they have to be reconstructed from later reports. This important collection of essays by one of the foremost interpreters of Hellenistic philosophy focuses on key questions in epistemology and ethics debated by Greek and Roman philosophers of the Hellenistic period. T…
The role of oikeiōsis in Stoic ethics
The prospective student of Stoic ethics who tries, perhaps naïvely, to find out what the proper entrance might be to the apparent labyrinth the Stoics so proudly proclaimed as their system, will soon come across a topic called oikeiōsis. The Greek term is usually not translated, but transliterated; not because it is untranslatable, but because any translation would seem to be intolerably clumsy. What it means can perhaps be rendered as 'recogniti…
Following nature
The following rather lengthy piece is a revised version of the Nellie-Wallace lectures I give at Oxford University in the spring of 1984. My aim in this series of six talks was to put together an outline of Stoic ethics that would permit an audience of non-specialists to see some of the connections between the notorious bits of Stoic doctrine with which – or so I assumed – most of us are familiar. For example, most philosophers or classicists wil…
Epicurus on the truth of sense impressions
Of the three statements that often serve to epitomize Epicurean philosophy – at least for polemical purposes – two seem to be reasonably easy to understand: “The universe consists of bodies and void,” for physics; and “Pleasure is the highest good,” for ethics. The third, epistemological one, however, which is usually quoted in English as “All sensations are true,” has been the subject of some controversy and various interpretations by recent com…
On the difference between the Pyrrhonists and the Academics
Skepticism seems of late to have had a kind of renaissance among philosophers. Apart from the usual chapters on skeptical doubt in general treatments of epistemology, there is now a whole series of books and articles, in which a position described as ‘skeptical’ is analyzed and either defended or attacked. Hence it is understandable that historians of philosophy too have turned with renewed enthusiasm to the interpretation of the ancient reports …
Antipater, or the art of living
In reading the doxographical reports on Stoic philosophy, one gets the impression that the Stoics had a singular, and often irritating, predilection for identity-statements. The best known case is undoubtedly that of nature, which is at the same time reason, fatum, providence and Zeus himself (Plut Stoic, rep. 1050b). But in ethics, too, one finds such series of identifications, which do not always make understanding the texts any easier. The goa…
Plato's Socrates and the Stoics
It is no novelty to say that the Stoics saw themselves as followers of Socrates. According to Diogenes Laertius (7.2), Zeno turned to philosophy after reading the second book of Xenophon's Memorabilia. The Socratic descent of the Stoics was canonized into a school genealogy by the Hellenistic historians, who constructed the “succession” Socrates – Antisthenes – Diogenes – Crates – Zeno. As far as this suggests that each of the older philosophers …
Kριτήριον τῆς ἀληθείας
The epistemological debate between the Greek philosophical schools of the third and second centuries B.C. – the Skeptics on the one hand and the Stoics and Epicureans on the other – can be described without undue simplification as a dispute over the question of the criterion of truth. Strictly speaking, there were two questions: first, whether a criterion of truth exists, and second, what it might be. These questions can also be formulated withou…
Rationality in Greek Thought
Rationality in Greek Thought - a collection of specially written essays by leading international scholars - fundamentally re-examines ancient ideas of reason and rationality. Conceptions of reason, rationality, and reasonableness have changed over time, and scholars have all too easily projected contemporary ideas of reason onto ancient thought. This tendency has made it impossible for us fully to understand either the central tenets of ancient p…
Sceptical strategies
Before I begin an examination of sceptical arguments, I should perhaps say a few words about the term ‘scepticism’ itself. ‘Scepticism’, as I propose to use the word, may be characterized by two features: a thesis, viz. that nothing can be known, and a recommendation, viz. that one should suspend judgement on all matters. These two are logically independent of each other, since the thesis is not sufficient to justify the recommendation. Both are …
Ataraxia
In this paper I would like to examine a conception of happiness that seems to have become popular after the time of Plato and Aristotle: tranquillity or, as one might also say, peace of mind. This conception is interesting for two reasons: first, because it seems to come from outside the tradition that began with Plato or Socrates, second, because it is the only conception of eudaimonia in Greek ethics that identifies happiness with a state of mi…
Methods of sophistry
The Sophists of the fifth century B.C. have had a spectacular comeback over the last few decades. One scholar after another, in philosophy as well as in history or in classical literature, has argued that we ought to get away from Plato's devastating campaign to ruin their reputation, and restore them to their rightful place in the history of Greek thought. Perhaps the most complete and balanced picture of their role in the intellectual history o…
Cicero and Greek Philosophy
TO speak about Cicero and Greek philosophy is to speak about Cicero and philosophy, period. Philosophy, for the Romans of Cicero's age, was a Greek thing, and there was no other philosophy around. Philosophy was one of the disciplines the Romans of the first century B.C. took over from the Greeks as a part of higher education. It was both a prestigious and a suspect branch of Greek cultureprestigious because it was intellectually demanding, suspe…
Thrasyllan Platonism
Passions & Perceptions
The philosophers of the Hellenistic schools in ancient Greece and Rome (Epicureans, Stoics, Sceptics, Academics, Cyrenaics) made important contributions to the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of psychology. This volume, which contains the proceedings of the Fifth Symposium Hellenisticum, describes and analyses their contributions on issues such as: the nature of perception, imagination and belief; the nature of the passions and their role i…
Aristotle Transformed
Über den Unterschied zwischen den Pyrrhoneern und den Akademikern
Der Skeptizismus scheint in letzter Zeit unter den Philosophen eine Art von Renaissance zu erleben: abgesehen von den ublichen Kapiteln uber den skeptischen Zweifel in allgemeinen Darstellungen der Erkenntnistheonie gibt es eine ganze Reihe von Biichern und Abhandlungen, in denen ein skeptisch genannter Standpunkt analysiert und entweder verteidigt oder widerlegt werden soll. So ist es verstandlich, daB sich auch die Historiker der Philosophie mi…
Epicurus on the Truth of Sense Impressions
Über den Unterschied zwischen den Pyrrhoneern und den Akademikern
Der Skeptizismus scheint in letzter Zeit unter den Philosophen eine Art von Renaissance zu erleben: abgesehen von den ublichen Kapiteln uber den skeptischen Zweifel in allgemeinen Darstellungen der Erkenntnistheonie gibt es eine ganze Reihe von Biichern und Abhandlungen, in denen ein skeptisch genannter Standpunkt analysiert und entweder verteidigt oder widerlegt werden soll. So ist es verstandlich, daB sich auch die Historiker der Philosophie mi…
The Norms of Nature
Following Nature
The following rather lengthy piece is a revised version of the Nellie Wallace Lectures I gave at Oxford University in the spring of 1984. My aim in this series of six talks was to put together an outline of Stoic ethics that would permit an audience of non-specialists to see some of the connections between the notorious bits of Stoic doctrine with which—or so I assumed—most of us are familiar. For example, most philosophers or classicists will ha…
Scepticism or Platonism?
Aristotle Transformed
Passions & Perceptions
The philosophers of the Hellenistic schools in ancient Greece and Rome (Epicureans, Stoics, Sceptics, Academics, Cyrenaics) made important contributions to the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of psychology. This volume, which contains the proceedings of the Fifth Symposium Hellenisticum, describes and analyses their contributions on issues such as: the nature of perception, imagination and belief; the nature of the passions and their role i…
Cicero and Greek Philosophy
TO speak about Cicero and Greek philosophy is to speak about Cicero and philosophy, period. Philosophy, for the Romans of Cicero's age, was a Greek thing, and there was no other philosophy around. Philosophy was one of the disciplines the Romans of the first century B.C. took over from the Greeks as a part of higher education. It was both a prestigious and a suspect branch of Greek cultureprestigious because it was intellectually demanding, suspe…
Thrasyllan Platonism
Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics
The doctrines of the Hellenistic Schools - Epicureans, Stoics, and Sceptics - are known to have had a formative influence on later thought, but because the primary sources are lost, they have to be reconstructed from later reports. This important collection of essays by one of the foremost interpreters of Hellenistic philosophy focuses on key questions in epistemology and ethics debated by Greek and Roman philosophers of the Hellenistic period. T…
The role of oikeiōsis in Stoic ethics
The prospective student of Stoic ethics who tries, perhaps naïvely, to find out what the proper entrance might be to the apparent labyrinth the Stoics so proudly proclaimed as their system, will soon come across a topic called oikeiōsis. The Greek term is usually not translated, but transliterated; not because it is untranslatable, but because any translation would seem to be intolerably clumsy. What it means can perhaps be rendered as 'recogniti…
Following nature
The following rather lengthy piece is a revised version of the Nellie-Wallace lectures I give at Oxford University in the spring of 1984. My aim in this series of six talks was to put together an outline of Stoic ethics that would permit an audience of non-specialists to see some of the connections between the notorious bits of Stoic doctrine with which – or so I assumed – most of us are familiar. For example, most philosophers or classicists wil…
Epicurus on the truth of sense impressions
Of the three statements that often serve to epitomize Epicurean philosophy – at least for polemical purposes – two seem to be reasonably easy to understand: “The universe consists of bodies and void,” for physics; and “Pleasure is the highest good,” for ethics. The third, epistemological one, however, which is usually quoted in English as “All sensations are true,” has been the subject of some controversy and various interpretations by recent com…
On the difference between the Pyrrhonists and the Academics
Skepticism seems of late to have had a kind of renaissance among philosophers. Apart from the usual chapters on skeptical doubt in general treatments of epistemology, there is now a whole series of books and articles, in which a position described as ‘skeptical’ is analyzed and either defended or attacked. Hence it is understandable that historians of philosophy too have turned with renewed enthusiasm to the interpretation of the ancient reports …
Antipater, or the art of living
In reading the doxographical reports on Stoic philosophy, one gets the impression that the Stoics had a singular, and often irritating, predilection for identity-statements. The best known case is undoubtedly that of nature, which is at the same time reason, fatum, providence and Zeus himself (Plut Stoic, rep. 1050b). But in ethics, too, one finds such series of identifications, which do not always make understanding the texts any easier. The goa…
Plato's Socrates and the Stoics
It is no novelty to say that the Stoics saw themselves as followers of Socrates. According to Diogenes Laertius (7.2), Zeno turned to philosophy after reading the second book of Xenophon's Memorabilia. The Socratic descent of the Stoics was canonized into a school genealogy by the Hellenistic historians, who constructed the “succession” Socrates – Antisthenes – Diogenes – Crates – Zeno. As far as this suggests that each of the older philosophers …
Kριτήριον τῆς ἀληθείας
The epistemological debate between the Greek philosophical schools of the third and second centuries B.C. – the Skeptics on the one hand and the Stoics and Epicureans on the other – can be described without undue simplification as a dispute over the question of the criterion of truth. Strictly speaking, there were two questions: first, whether a criterion of truth exists, and second, what it might be. These questions can also be formulated withou…
Rationality in Greek Thought
Rationality in Greek Thought - a collection of specially written essays by leading international scholars - fundamentally re-examines ancient ideas of reason and rationality. Conceptions of reason, rationality, and reasonableness have changed over time, and scholars have all too easily projected contemporary ideas of reason onto ancient thought. This tendency has made it impossible for us fully to understand either the central tenets of ancient p…
Sceptical strategies
Before I begin an examination of sceptical arguments, I should perhaps say a few words about the term ‘scepticism’ itself. ‘Scepticism’, as I propose to use the word, may be characterized by two features: a thesis, viz. that nothing can be known, and a recommendation, viz. that one should suspend judgement on all matters. These two are logically independent of each other, since the thesis is not sufficient to justify the recommendation. Both are …
Ataraxia
In this paper I would like to examine a conception of happiness that seems to have become popular after the time of Plato and Aristotle: tranquillity or, as one might also say, peace of mind. This conception is interesting for two reasons: first, because it seems to come from outside the tradition that began with Plato or Socrates, second, because it is the only conception of eudaimonia in Greek ethics that identifies happiness with a state of mi…
Methods of sophistry
The Sophists of the fifth century B.C. have had a spectacular comeback over the last few decades. One scholar after another, in philosophy as well as in history or in classical literature, has argued that we ought to get away from Plato's devastating campaign to ruin their reputation, and restore them to their rightful place in the history of Greek thought. Perhaps the most complete and balanced picture of their role in the intellectual history o…
Assent and Argument
These ten essays on Cicero's Academic Books (the Academia and Lucullus) deal with various aspects of Academic scepticism, ancient epistemology, and the history of the Academy. The tradition from Socrates through to Galen is covered, with special emphasis on Carneades, Antiochus and, of course, Cicero himself.
Stoic Studies
Historical Reflections on Classical Pyrrhonism and Neo‐Pyrrhonism
This essay argues that ancient Pyrrhonists did not decide to suspend judgment, but rather claimed to have found themselves unable to arrive at any judgment. By giving up the attempt, they also claimed to have unexpectedly reached tranquility, then followed the customs of ordinary life without ever claiming to have found the truth. This anti-rational attitude is not likely to be typical of ordinary people, nor would it seem desirable to modern def…
The Virtuous Life in Greek Ethics
There is now a renewed concern for moral psychology among moral philosophers. Moreover, contemporary philosophers interested in virtue, moral responsibility and moral progress regularly refer to Plato and Aristotle, the two founding fathers of ancient ethics. The book contains eleven chapters by distinguished scholars which showcase current research in Greek ethics. Four deal with Plato, focusing on the Protagoras, Euthydemus, Symposium and Repub…
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