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THE APORETIC TRADITION IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Edited by George Karamanolis (Universität Wien, Austria) , Vasilis Politis (Trinity College Dublin) Ancient philosophers from an otherwise diverse range of traditions were connected by their shared use of aporia - translated as puzzlement rooted in conflicts of reasons - as a core tool in philosophical enquiry. The essays in this volume provide the first comprehensive study of aporetic methodology among numerous major figures and influential schools, including the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Academic sceptics, Pyrrhonian sceptics, Plotinus and Damascius. They explore the differences and similarities in these philosophers' approaches to the source, structure, and aim of aporia, their views on its function and value, and ideas about the proper means of generating such a state among thinkers who were often otherwise opposed in their overall philosophical orientation. Discussing issues of method, dialectic, and knowledge, the volume will appeal to those interested in ancient philosophy and in philosophical enquiry more generally.(Text by the editors)&#160;Contents&#160;ContributorsIntroductionChapter 1 – Contradiction and Aporia in Early Greek PhilosophyChapter 2 – Socrates and the Benefit of PuzzlementChapter 3 – Aporia ans Sceptical Argument in Plato’s Early DialoguesChapter 4 – Aporia in Plato’s ParmenidesChapter 5 – Aporia in Plato’s Theaetetus and SophistChapter 6 – Aporia and Dialectical Method in AristotleChapter 7 – Aporia in Aristotle’s Metaphysics BetaChapter 8 – Uses of Aporiai in Aristotle’s Generation of AnimalsChapter 9 – Aporia and the New AcademyChapter 10 – Aporetic Elements in Plutarch’s PhilosophyChapter 11 – Aporia and Enquiry in Ancient PyrrhonismChapter 12 – Aporia and ExegesisChapter 13 – The Aporetic Character os Plotinu’s PhilosophyChapter 14 – Aporia and the Limits os Reason and of Language in DamasciusBibliographyIndex LocorumSubject Index