On Methods of Inference. Edited with Translation and Commentary by Philip Howard De Lacy and Estelle Allen De Lacy - Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici - La Scuola di Epicuro, collezione di testi ercolanesi diretta da Marcello Gigante.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - This volume opens the �School of Epicurus� in the way most appropriate to such an important initiative as the one of making accessible the Herculanean papyri. It contains the PHerc. 1065, a text which the De Lacys have long loved and repeatedly studied; it has been revised, critically founded, translated into English and suitably commented by them. -- Philodemus� book On Signs, that is to say on the meaning of semiotics in the Epicurean school and on the inductive methods, is one of the few surviving writings of ancient logic, and of Epicurean logic in particular, and shows immediately its charming modernity. -- Five essays complete the edition of the text. The first is, at the same time, a mise au point of the studies on Philodemus and an airy and precise monograph, based on documentary evidence, of the Epicurean philosopher. The second essay presents clearly the surviving content of the work On Signs, which was written in the Fifties of the I century B.C. and was constructed by Philodemus on the basis of sources which he properly quotes. It was conceived as an �organon� not only containing the elaboration of the empirical method ( as opposed to the rationalism of the Stoics ), but also the Epicurean theory of perception and epistemology. The third essay draws the outlines of the Greek empirical thought from the School of Hippocrates to Aristotle�s. It indicates the sources of the Epicurean empiricism and some of its applications: in Nausiphanes, in the Peripatetics and in the empirical Physicians. One of the chief concerns of the Epicurean philosophy, the theory and the application of the empirical methodology, is underlined in the fourth essay, dedicated to the development of the Epicurean logic and methodology. The fifth essay explains the terms of the debate, in the field of inductive logic based on signs, between empirical Epicureans and rationalist Stoics.