Overview
- Editors:
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Panayiota Vassilopoulou
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University of Liverpool, UK
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Stephen R. L. Clark
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University of Liverpool, UK
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Rituals, Religion and Reality
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Art and Poetry
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Front Matter
Pages 141-141
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- Christina-Panagiota Manolea
Pages 174-187
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Later Influences
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Front Matter
Pages 189-189
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About this book
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.
About the editors
ROBERT M. BERCHMAN is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Dowling College and Senior Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College, USA
DANIELE BERTINI is fellow of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Parma, Italy
JAY BREGMAN is Professor of History and coordinator of the Minor in Religious studies at
the University of Maine, USA
AUDE BUSINE, is Research Associate of the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium
KEVIN CORRIGAN is Professor of the Liberal Arts in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal
Arts at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
JOHN DILLON is Regius Professor of Greek (Emeritus) at Trinity College Dublin, and
Director of the Dublin Centre for the Study of the Platonic Tradition, Ireland
MALCOLM HEATH is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of
Leeds, UK
OIVA KUISMA is a lecturer in Aesthetics at the University of Helsinki, Institute for Art Research, Finland
TANELI KUKKONEN held the Canada Research Chair in the Aristotelian Tradition from
2003 to 2007, when he became Research Professor in Antiquity at the University of
Jyväskylä in Finland
EMILIE KUTASH is a Research Associate at Boston University Center for the History and Philosophy of Science and teaches Philosophy at St. Joseph's College, USA
JOACHIM LACROSSE is Collaborateur Scientifique at the Centre de Philosophie Ancienne
de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
CHRISTINAPANAGIOTA MANOLEA is a tutor at the Hellenic Open University, Greece
ZEKE MAZUR is currently working on a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, USA. His dissertation is on the Gnostic background of Plotinus' mysticism.
CAROL POSTER is Associate Professor of English at York University, Ontario, Canada
ALGIS UZDAVINYS is Associated Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Vilnius
Academy of Fine Arts, and Senior Research Fellow at the Lithuanian Academy of
Sciences, Lithuania
