Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. Introduction: The Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge XV
4. Chapter One: Are Porlepses and Common Conceptions Identical? 1
5. Chapter Two: Prolepsis and Common Conceptions as Criteria of Truth 23
6. Chapter Three: Stages in the Development of Reason 48
7. Interim Conclusions: Meno's Paradox and the Early Stoa 72
8. Chapter Four: The Formation of Prolepses 80
9. Chapter Five: Prolepsis in Ordinary and Philosophical Cognition 110
10. Conclusion: Are the Stoics Empiricists or Rationalists? 145
11. Tables: The Usage of Πρόληψις, ΄ʹΕννοια, and Related Terms 152
12. Appendix A: Epicurus and Later Epicureans 163
13. Appendix B: The Early Stoa 172
14. Appendix C: Cicero and Seneca 181
15. Appendix D: Epictetus 193
16. Appendix E: Plutarch 208
17. Appendix F: Sextus Empiricus 227
18. Appendix G: Alexander of Aphrodisias 244
19. Appendix H: Alcinous 250
20. Backmatter 253