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The Stoics Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia [Paperback]

Brad Inwood (Translator), Lloyd P. Gerson (Translator)
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September 30, 2008 0872209520 978-0872209527
This volume gathers together the most important evidence about Stoic thought surviving from the ancient world. It is an expanded version of the section on Stoicism in Inwood and Gerson's Hellenistic Philosophy, consolidating related texts into larger, more continuous selections, adding material on the skeptical attack on Stoicism, and a short section that introduces the reader to some of the more interesting texts on Stoic ethics from the Roman imperial period.

Inwood and Gerson provide lucid, accurate translations, an Introduction that sets the works included in historical and philosophical context, a glossary of terms, a glossary of philosophers and philosophical sources, an index of passages translated, and a subject index.

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Brad Inwood is Professor of Philosophy and Classics, University of Toronto.

Lloyd P. Gerson is Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto.

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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Hackett Pub Co (September 30, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0872209520
  • ISBN-13: 978-0872209527
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #426,786 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars great contribution, November 14, 2009
This review is from: The Stoics Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia (Paperback)
With due respect to the previous reviewer, the reason this book seems like a "chopped mess" is because it is a book of fragments - the ancient Stoic tradition is itself extremely fragmentary, a fact hardly the fault of Inwood and Gerson. By bringing many of the most important of those fragments together in an inexpensive edition, the editors have actually done a great service to those who desire not just a book about Stoicism, but access to the primary texts in an accessible fashion. This book is particularly helpful to beginning students in ancient philosophy.
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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Sage Hackett, February 2, 2009
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This review is from: The Stoics Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia (Paperback)
Hackett fills a valuable niche in classical studies by selling at student-friendly prices new, readable translations with extensive notes and helpful introductions. This book is particularly useful: it brings together a number of otherwise hard-to-find translations of basic writings of the Stoics. I imagine this book will stay in print a long time.

The same might be said of another recent Hackett publication, a 2006 translation of On Academic Scepticism, a book that might be considered a kind of counterpart to the Stoics Reader: call it Cicero's Hellenistic Reader. By doing friendly battle during the Roman Republican period, the Stoics and Sceptics covered endlessly interesting subject matter in ways that remain accessible to any curious modern reader.

Other Hackett titles that come to mind: a handy Epicurus Reader; the Nichomachan Ethics; a remarkable complete Plato. I wonder how the publisher manages to offer these new translations at such low prices? I look forward to filling my library with their future efforts.
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1.0 out of 5 stars chopped up mess, August 14, 2009
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I have read a great deal of the many books offered on stoic topics available and this is maybe the worst. You will gain no insight or any pleasure from this chopped up mess that is impossible to enjoy reading. A hodgepodge of excerpts with no continuity or cohesive message. Just a mess.
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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
graspable presentation, pneuma extending, primary natural things, spermatic principles, inborn pneuma, worth choosing, sound conditional, deliberative ability, imprudent men, agreement with nature
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sextus Empiricus, Epictetus Discourses, Later Stoic Ethics, Stobaeus Anthology, Diogenes Laėrtius, Seneca Letters, Galen On the Doctrines, Account of Physics, Zeno of Citium, Plutarch On Stoic Self-Contradictions, Homer Iliad, Nemesius On Human Nature, Eusebius Prep, Simplicius Commentary, Ariston of Chios, Aristotle's Categories, Cicero Academica, Plutarch On Common Conceptions, Cicero On Duties, Cambridge University Press, Homer Odyssey, Cicero On Goals
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