Self-Intellection and its Epistemological Origins in Ancient Greek Thought
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ancient epistemology
Aristotelian Account
Aristotelian psychology
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Epistemic Dispositions
Epistemic Subject
Epistemological Origins
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Identity Relation
Identity Thesis
Intellect Qua
Intellectual Subject
Intelligible Objects
Measure Doctrine
metaphysics of mind
Outward Body
Perceiving Subject
Perceptible Object
Plato's Account
Plato's Epistemology
Plato's Response
Platonic philosophy
Plato’s Account
Plato’s Epistemology
Plato’s Response
Plotinian metaphysics
Proper Objects
Qualitative Homogeneity
self-reflexive cognition in antiquity
Sextus Empiricus
Stoic Epistemology
Stoic logic
Strong Monism
Subject Object Distinction
Vice Versa
Wax Block
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- ISBN 9780754630579
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 23 Oct 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Can the intellect or the intellectual faculty be its own object of thought, or can it not think or apprehend itself? This book explores the ancient treatments of the question of self-intellection - an important theme in ancient epistemology and of considerable interest to later philosophical thought. The manner in which the ancients dealt with the intellect apprehending itself, took them into both the metaphysical and epistemological domains with reflections on questions of thinking, identity and causality. Ian Crystal traces the origins from which the concept of self-intellection springs, by examining Plato's account of the epistemic subject and the emergence of self-intellection through the Aristotelian account, before the final part of the book explores the problem of how the intellect apprehends itself, and its resolution including Plotinus' reformulation and the dilemma raised by Sextus Empiricus. Crystal concludes that Plotinus recasts the metaphysical structures of Plato and Aristotle in such a way that he casts the concept of self-intellection in an entirely new light and offers a solution to the problem.
Ian M. Crystal, Louisiana State University, USA
