This book looks at the epistemological views and arguments of
the early Stoics, in particular those of Chrysippus (3rd century
BC), the third head of the Stoic school. It discusses such issues
as the manner in which we perceive things and come to have notions
of them, the reliability of arguments, the nature and variety of
cognitive errors, and the possibility and nature of knowledge.
Unlike most recent works on the subject, the aim of this book is
to give a comprehensive account of Stoic epistemology as a whole as
it was developed by Chrysippus. The emphasis lies - more than usual
- on how the epistemological views of the Stoics are interrelated,
not only among themselves, but also with views belonging to their
physics and logic. The author focuses on the ancient sources and
does not attempt to cover all the subjects that are discussed in
the scholarly literature, but in working with the sources, he makes
extensive use of the latest scholarship on the subject.
Our evidence for early Stoicism is quite poor. There are
probably many views and arguments we will never get to know about.
But we do find lots of passages bearing on various issues in Stoic
epistemology in Sextus, Galen, Plutarch, Cicero, and a few others
authors. Much of Lokke's work therefore consists of putting
together bits and pieces of evidence from these authors so as to
try and make sense of the subjects that we know the early Stoics
discussed, some of which are listed above.
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