Stoicism: Traditions and Transformations

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Pub. Date: 2010-12-31
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Stoicism is now widely recognized 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 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The socratic imprint of Epictetus' philosophy
The stoics on the voluntariness of the passions
Stoicism and the Apostle Paul: a philosophical reading
Moral judgment in Seneca
Stoic first movements in Christianity
Where were the stoics in the Middle Ages?
Abelard's stoicism and its consequences
Constance and coherence
On the happy life: Descartes vis-...-vis Seneca
Psychotherapy and moral perfection: Spinoza and the stoics on the prospect of happiness
Duties of justice, duties of material aid: Cicero's problematic legacy
Stoic emotion Lawrence Becker
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