This volume offers an odyssey through the ideas of the Stoics in three ways: through the historical trajectory of the school itself and its influence; the recovery of the history of Stoic thought; and finally, the ongoing confrontation with Stoicism. The study demonstrates how Stoicism refines philosophical traditions, challenges the imagination, and ultimately defines the kind of life one chooses to lead. Advanced students and specialists will discover a conspectus of developments in this interpretation of the Stoics and new readers will be drawn to its accessibility.
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"I thoroughly recommend this book to anybody with an interest in Stoicism, its history, and its legacy. [An] unqualified success. The Companion leaves us not only with a good impression of, and furthered interests in, the Stoics themselves, but also with the systematic question of whether Stoic ethics and moral psychology can be separated from their theoretical and cosmological commitments. If they can, they have a good deal to teach us moderns about the role of reason, emotion and virtue in human life." Dominique Kuenzle, University of Sheffield, Metapsychology
"...another fine volume in the Cambridge Companion series, a series which always delivers on it promise to give 'specialists' a solid conspectus of the latest scholarship..." -Ancient Philosophy, Jeffrey S. Purinton
"...another fine volume in the Cambridge Companion series, a series which always delivers on it promise to give 'specialists' a solid conspectus of the latest scholarship..." -Ancient Philosophy, Jeffrey S. Purinton
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This volume offers an odyssey through the ideas of the Stoics in three ways: through the historical trajectory of the school itself and its influence; through the recovery of the history of Stoic thought; through the ongoing confrontation with Stoicism, showing how it refines philosophical traditions, challenges the imagination, and ultimately defines the kind of life one chooses to lead.New readers will find this the most accessible guide to the Stoics currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of developments in the interpretation of the Stoics.
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This is probably the best collection of scholarly articles on ancient Stoicism available. Brad Inwood has gathered together some of the top specialists in the field and has produced what is sure to be a standard and essential resource for scholars and students for years to come. Well written and edited, this is an ideal companion to the primary texts and fragments.
Contributors include: David Sedley, Christopher Gill, R.J. Hankinson, Suzanne Bobzien, Michael J. White, Keimpe Algra, Dorothea Frede, Jacques Brunschwig, Malcolm Schofield, Tad Brennan, R.J. Hankinson, David Blank & Catherine Atherton, Alexander Jones, T.H. Irwin, A.A. Long. Highly recommended.
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I found it to be a snobbish work full of obscure words and language, and boring. It is very scholarly and how brow, and a drag to read. I imagine that some persons would reason that this is appropriate for such a book, but even so, I could not finish it. It did not cast any light on the work of the stoics, not for me anyway. You might find it usefull though, but I did not.
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The history of the Stoic school is conventionally divided into three phases: Early Stoicism: from Zeno's foundation of the school, c. 300, to the late second century B.B.: the period which includes the headship of the greatest Stoic of them all, Chrysippus Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
constituent assertibles, pôs echonta, sub specie boni view, simple assertible, third thema, first thema, dialectical theorem, impulsive impression, cataleptic impression, fourth themata, second indemonstrable, right preconception, leading premiss, complete lekta, hedonist conception, supreme genus, total blending, first indemonstrable, traditional naturalism, negation particle, birth omens, containing causes, planning value, preferred indifferents, something existent Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Diogenes Laertius, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Diogenes of Babylon, Marcus Aurelius, Arius Didymus, Zeno of Citium, Sextus Empiricus, Contra Celsum, Clement of Alexandria, Apollonius Dyscolus, Hellenistic Age, Dionysius Thrax, Outline of Empiricism, Plato's Timaeus, Plutarch Comm, Aulus Gellius, Crates of Mallos, Middle Platonism, Musonius Rufus, Plato Leg, Stobaeus Ecl, Zeno of Sidon, Apollonius Synt, Cicero's Stoic, Galen Institutio New!
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The history of the Stoic school is conventionally divided into three phases: Early Stoicism: from Zeno's foundation of the school, c. 300, to the late second century B.B.: the period which includes the headship of the greatest Stoic of them all, Chrysippus Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
constituent assertibles, pôs echonta, sub specie boni view, simple assertible, third thema, first thema, dialectical theorem, impulsive impression, cataleptic impression, fourth themata, second indemonstrable, right preconception, leading premiss, complete lekta, hedonist conception, supreme genus, total blending, first indemonstrable, traditional naturalism, negation particle, birth omens, containing causes, planning value, preferred indifferents, something existent Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Diogenes Laertius, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Diogenes of Babylon, Marcus Aurelius, Arius Didymus, Zeno of Citium, Sextus Empiricus, Contra Celsum, Clement of Alexandria, Apollonius Dyscolus, Hellenistic Age, Dionysius Thrax, Outline of Empiricism, Plato's Timaeus, Plutarch Comm, Aulus Gellius, Crates of Mallos, Middle Platonism, Musonius Rufus, Plato Leg, Stobaeus Ecl, Zeno of Sidon, Apollonius Synt, Cicero's Stoic, Galen Institutio New!
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