Charles E. Snyder considers the New Academy's 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 Arcesilaus's 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 Arcesilaus' 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 Arcesilaus' 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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