Late Antique Epistemology explores the techniques used by late antique
philosophers to discuss truth. Non-rational ways to discover truth, or
to reform the soul, have usually been thought inferior to the
philosophically approved techniques of rational argument, suitable for
the less philosophically inclined, for children, savages or the
uneducated. Religious rituals, oracles, erotic passion, madness may
all have served to waken courage or remind us of realities obscured by
everyday concerns. What is unusual in the late antique classical
philosophers is that these techniques were reckoned as reliable as
reasoned argument, or better still. Late twentieth century
commentators have offered psychological explanations of this turn, but
only recently had it been accepted that there might also have been
philosophical explanations, and that the later antique philosophers
were not necessarily deluded.
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ISBN
9780230240773
Publisert
2019
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Palgrave Macmillan
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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