Prolepsis And Ennoia In The Early Stoa

ISBN: 9783110212280 出版年：2009 页码：300 Dyson, Henry De Gruyter

This book reconstructs the Stoic doctrine of prolepsis. Prolepses are conceptions that develop naturally from ordinary experience. They are often identified with preconceptions (i.e. the first conceptions one unconsciously forms of something). However, this is inconsistent with the Stoics′ claim that prolepseis are criteria of truth. Rather, prolepseis are analytically true claims embedded within one′s ordinary conceptual scheme (e.g. the good is beneficial). When they have been articulated and systematized, prolepseis can be used to judge conceptual claims that go beyond the scope of sense-perceptual knowledge (e.g. pleasure is the good). The Stoics often refer to prolepseis as "common conceptions" to emphasize that they are shared by everyone, although in most people they remain unarticulated.