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The stoics reader : selected writings and testimonia /

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Publication details: Indianapolis : Hackett Pub. Co., Inc., ©2008.Description: xvi, 234 pages. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780872209527 (pbk.)
  • 0872209520 (pbk.)
  • 9780872209534 (cloth)
  • 0872209539 (cloth)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 188 I63S 22
LOC classification:
  • B528 .S6825 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Lives of the stoics (Zeno, Ariston, Herillus, Cleanthes, Sphaerus, Chrysippus) -- On philosophy -- Logic and theory of knowledge -- Perception, knowledge, and skeptical attack -- The stoic-academic debate and Cicero's testimony -- Conceptions and rationality -- Physics -- Theology -- Bodily and non-bodily realities -- Structures and powers -- The soul -- Fate -- Ethics -- The general account in Diogenes Laërtius -- The account preserved by Stobaeus -- The account in Cicero On goals -- Other evidence for stoic ethics -- Passions and the goal : criticism within the stoic school and the evidence of Galen -- A critique from the academic-peripatetic point of view -- Pyrrhonist critique of basic ethical concepts -- Later stoic ethics : a sampler -- Musonius Rufus -- Seneca -- Epictetus.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Lives of the stoics (Zeno, Ariston, Herillus, Cleanthes, Sphaerus, Chrysippus) -- On philosophy -- Logic and theory of knowledge -- Perception, knowledge, and skeptical attack -- The stoic-academic debate and Cicero's testimony -- Conceptions and rationality -- Physics -- Theology -- Bodily and non-bodily realities -- Structures and powers -- The soul -- Fate -- Ethics -- The general account in Diogenes Laërtius -- The account preserved by Stobaeus -- The account in Cicero On goals -- Other evidence for stoic ethics -- Passions and the goal : criticism within the stoic school and the evidence of Galen -- A critique from the academic-peripatetic point of view -- Pyrrhonist critique of basic ethical concepts -- Later stoic ethics : a sampler -- Musonius Rufus -- Seneca -- Epictetus.

Translated from the Ancient Greek.

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