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From Epicurus to Epictetus : studies in Hellenistic and Roman philosophy /

A.A. Long, one of the worldʼs 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Long, A. A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Zenoʼs epistemology and Platoʼs Theatetus
  • Stoic psychology and the elucidation of language
  • The Stoics on world-conflagration and everlasting recurrence
  • CICERO AND ROMAN STOCISM
  • Ciceroʼs Plato and Aristotle
  • Ciceroʼs politics in De officiis
  • Stoic philosophers on persons, property-ownership, and community
  • Seneca on the self : why now?
  • Epictetus on understanding and managing emotions.