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Reading Seneca : Stoic philosophy at Rome /

Brad Inwood presents a selection of his most influential essays on the philosophy of Seneca, the Roman Stoic thinker, statesman, and tragedian of the first century AD. Including two brand-new pieces, and a helpful introduction to orient the reader, this volume will be an essential guide for anyone s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Inwood, Brad
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Seneca in his philosophica milieu
  • Seneca and psychological dualism
  • Politics and paradox in Seneca's De beneficiis
  • Rules and reasoning in stoic ethics
  • The will in Seneca
  • God and human knowledge in Seneca's Natural questions
  • Moral judgement in Seneca
  • Natural law in Seneca
  • Reason, rationalization, and happiness
  • Getting to goodness
  • Seneca on freedom and autonomy
  • Seneca and self-assertion.