The Cambridge companion to the Stoics / edited by Brad Inwood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Inwood, Brad, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stoics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 438 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This unique volume offers an odyssey through the ideas of the Stoics in three particular ways: first, through the historical trajectory of the school itself and its influence; second, through the recovery of the history of Stoic thought; third, 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. A distinguished roster of specialists have written an authoritative guide to the entire philosophical tradition. The first two chapters chart the history of the school in the ancient world, and are followed by chapters on the core themes of the Stoic system: epistemology, logic, natural philosophy, theology, determinism, and metaphysics. There are two chapters on what might be thought of as the heart and soul of the Stoics system: ethics.

Contents:

Introduction: Stoicism, an intellectual odyssey / Brad Inwood

The school, from Zeno to Arius Didymus / David Sedley

The school in the Roman imperial period / Christopher Gill

Stoic epistemology / R.J. Hankinson

Logic / Susanne Bobzien

Stoic natural philosophy (physics and cosmology) / Michael J. White

Stoic theology / Keimpe Algra

Stoic determinism / Dorothea Frede

Stoic metaphysics / Jacques Brunschwig

Stoic ethics / Malcolm Schofield

Stoic moral psychology / Tad Brennan

Stoicism and medicine / R.J. Hankinson

The stoic contribution to traditional grammar / David Blank and Catherine Atherton

The stoics and the astronomical sciences / Alexander Jones

Stoic naturalism and its critics / T.H. Irwin

Stoicism in the philosophical tradition: Spinoza, Lipsius, Butler / A.A. Long.

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ISBN:

9780511998874 (ebook)

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