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The stoics reader : selected writings and testimonia /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Inwood, Brad, Gerson, Lloyd P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the Ancient Greek.
Published: Indianapolis : Hackett Pub. Co., Inc., [2008]
Subjects:
Stoics.
Table of 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.