Beyond Hellenistic Epistemology

Arcesilaus and the Destruction of Stoic Metaphysics

By: Charles E. Snyder

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Hardcover | 21 October 2021

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Charles E. Snyder considers the New Academyâs attacks on Stoic epistemology through a critical re-assessment of the 3rd century philosopher, Arcesilaus of Pitane. Arguing that the standard epistemological framework used to study the ancient Academy ignores the metaphysical dimensions at stake in Arcesilausâs critique, Snyder explores new territory for the historiography of Stoic-Academic debates in the early Hellenistic period.

Focusing on the dispute between the Old and New Academy, Snyder reveals the metaphysical dimensions of Arcesilausâ arguments as essential to grasping what is innovative about the so-called New Academy. Resisting the partiality for epistemology in the historical reconstructions of ancient philosophy, this book defends a new philosophical framework that re-positions Arcesilausâ attack on the early Stoa as key to his deviation from the metaphysical foundations of both Stoic and Academic virtue ethics.

Drawing on a wide range of scholarship on Hellenistic philosophy in French, Italian, and German, Beyond Hellenistic Epistemology builds bridges between analytical and continental approaches to the historiography of ancient philosophy, and makes an important and disruptive contribution to the literature.

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