The structured self in Hellenistic and Roman thought [[electronic resource] /] / Christopher Gill

• Record Nr.: UNISA996209833903316
• Autore: Gill Christopher <1946->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 0-19-956437-X; 1-280-76452-X; 9786610764525; 0-19-151840-9; 1-4356-1876-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (545 p.)
• Disciplina: 126.0938
• Soggetti: Self (Philosophy); Philosophy, Ancient; Philosophical anthropology; Filosofische antropologie; Zelf
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [462]-486) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Note on Conventions""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I: THE STRUCTURED SELF IN STOICISM AND EPICUREANISM""; ""1. Psychophysical Holism in Stoicism and Epicureanism""; ""1.1 Preliminaries""; ""1.2 Platonic and Aristotelian Background""; ""1.3 Converging Holistic World-Views""; ""1.4 Psychophysical Holism: Stoicism""; ""1.5 Psychophysical Holism: Epicureanism""; ""1.6 Puzzles about Identity""; ""2. Psychological Holism and Socratic Ideals""; ""2.1 Preliminaries""; ""2.2 Stoicism""; ""2.3 Epicureanism""; ""3. Development and the Structured Self""; ""3.1 Preliminaries""; ""3.2 Stoic Development and Psychological Holism""""3.3 Stoic Development and Ethical Holism""; ""3.4 A Contrasting Pattern: Antiochus and Arius Didymus""; ""3.5 Stoicâ€?Epicurean Development: Distinctive Features""; ""PART II: THE UNSTRUCTURED SELF: STOIC PASSIONS AND THE RECEPTION OF PLATO""; ""4. Competing Readings of Stoic Passions""; ""4.1 Ancient Debate about the Stoic Theory""; ""4.2 ; Plutarch on Stoic Psychology""; ""4.3 Plutarchâ€?s Psychology""; ""4.4 Galen on Stoic Psychology""; ""4.5 Galen on Chrysippus""; ""4.6 Galen on Posidonius""; ""5. Competing Readings of Platonic Psychology""""5.1 Galen and Chrysippus on the Timaeus""; ""5.2 Galen and Chrysippus on the Republic""; ""PART III: THEORETICAL ISSUES AND LITERARY RECEPTION""; ""6. Issues in Selfhood: Subjectivity and Objectivity""; ""6.1 Preliminaries""; ""6.2 Subjective and Objective Selves""; ""6.3 Concepts of Self in Platoâ€?s Alcibiades""; ""6.4 Subjective and Objective Readings of Stoic Development""; ""6.5 Epictetus: A New Subjective-Individualist Self ?""; ""6.6 A Subjectivist Strand in Ancient Thought?""; ""7. Literary Reception: Structured and Unstructured Selves""""7.1 Preliminaries""; ""7.2 Plutarchâ€?s Lives""; ""7.3 Senecan Tragedy""; ""7.4 Virgilâ€?s Aeneid""; ""References""; ""Index of Ancient Passages""; ""A""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""G""; ""H""; ""L""; ""M""; ""O""; ""P""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""X""; ""General Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Z""
• Sommario/riassunto: Christopher Gill offers a wide-ranging account of what is new and distinctive in Hellenistic and Roman ideas about selfhood and personality. He focuses upon Stoic and Epicurean philosophy and its relationship to earlier Greek thought, especially Plato and contemporary literature.