From Epicurus to Epictetus : studies in Hellenistic and Roman philosophy /
A.A. Long, one of the worldơs leading writers on ancient philosophy presents eighteen essays on the philosophers and schools of the Hellenistic and Roman periods - Epicureans. Stoics, and Sceptics. The discussion ranges over four centuries of innovative and challenging thought in ethics and politics...
| Основен автор: | Long, A. A. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford : Oxford ; New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2006.
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From Epicurus to Epictetus. |
Съдържание:
- GENERAL
- Hellenistic ethics and philosophical power
- Hellenistic ethics as the art of life
- SCEPTICISM
- Aristotle and the history of Greek scepticism
- Timon of Phlius : Pyrrhonist and satirist
- Arcesilaus in his time and place
- Scepticism about gods
- Astrology : arguments pro and contra
- EPICUREANISM
- Chance and laws of nature in Epicureanism
- Pleasure and social utility : the virtues of being Epicurean
- Lucretius on nature and the Epicurean self
- EARLY STOCISM
- Zenoơs epistemology and Platoơs Theatetus
- Stoic psychology and the elucidation of language
- The Stoics on world-conflagration and everlasting recurrence
- CICERO AND ROMAN STOCISM
- Ciceroơs Plato and Aristotle
- Ciceroơs politics in De officiis
- Stoic philosophers on persons, property-ownership, and community
- Seneca on the self : why now?
- Epictetus on understanding and managing emotions.