Gerson, Lloyd P.
Ancient Epistemology

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. IX,179 Seiten, broschiert (Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy/Cambridge University Press 2009) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren/clean text pages, minor traces of use