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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828330203321

Titolo

Stoicism : traditions and transformations / / edited by Steven K. Strange, Jack Zupko [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-14715-8

1-280-54043-5

0-511-21524-X

0-511-21703-X

0-511-21166-X

0-511-31567-8

0-511-49837-3

0-511-21343-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 295 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

188

Soggetti

Stoics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-289) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

The Socratic imprint of Epictetus' philosophy / A.A. Long -- The stoics on the voluntariness of the passions / Steven K. Strange -- Stoicism and the Apostle Paul : a philosophical reading / Troels Engberg-Pedersen -- Moral judgment in Seneca / Brad Inwood -- Stoic first movements in Christianity / Richard Sorabji -- Where were the stoics in the late Middle Ages? / Sten Ebbesen -- Abelard's stoicism and its consequences / Calvin Normore -- Constance and coherence / Jacqueline Lagreé -- On the happy life : Descartes vis-à-vis Seneca / Donald Rutherford -- Psychotherapy and moral perfection : Spinoza and the stoics on the prospect of happiness / Firmin DeBrabander -- Duties of justice, duties of material aid : Cicero's problematic legacy / Martha Nussbaum -- Stoic emotion / Lawrence C. Becker.

Sommario/riassunto

Stoicism is now widely recognised as one of the most important philosophical schools of ancient Greece and Rome. But how did it influence Western thought after Greek and Roman antiquity? The question is a difficult one to answer because the most important Stoic



texts have been lost since the end of the classical period, though not before early Christian thinkers had borrowed their ideas and applied them to discussions ranging from dialectic to moral theology. Later philosophers became familiar with Stoic teachings only indirectly, often without knowing that an idea came from the Stoics. The contributors recruited for this volume, first published in 2004, include some of the leading international scholars of Stoicism as well as experts in later periods of philosophy. They trace the impact of Stoicism and Stoic ideas from late antiquity through the medieval and modern periods.