Ancient Epistemology(English, Hardcover, Gerson Lloyd P.)

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Ancient Epistemology(English, Hardcover, Gerson Lloyd P.) is written by Gerson Lloyd P. and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521871395 (ISBN 10) and 9780521871396 (ISBN 13).

This is the first title in the Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy series, which provides concise books, written by major scholars and accessible to non-specialists, on important themes in ancient philosophy which remain of philosophical interest today. 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.