Stoic Philosophy
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- Author: J. M. Rist
- Date Published: April 1977
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521292016
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Literature on the Stoa usually concentrates on historical accounts of the development of the school and on Stoicism as a social movement. In this 1977 text, Professor Rist's approach is to examine in detail a series of philosophical problems discussed by leading members of the Stoic school. He is not concerned with social history or with the influence of Stoicism on popular beliefs in the Ancient world, but with such questions as the relation between Stoicism and the thought of Aristotle, the meaning and purpose of such Stoic paradoxes as 'all sins are equal', and the philosophical interrelation of Stoic physics and ethics. There are chapters on aspects of Stoic logic and on the thought of particular thinkers such as Panaetius and Posidonius, but ethical problems occupy the centre of the stage.
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- Date Published: April 1977
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521292016
- length: 312 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.63kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. Aristotle and the stoic good
2. Zeno and Chrysippus on human action and emotion
3. Problems of pleasure and pain
4. Cynicism and stoicism
5. All sins are equal
6. Appropriate acts
7. Fate and necessity
8. The criterion of truth
9. Categories and their uses
10. The innovations of Panaetius
11. The imprint of Posidonius
12. Knowing and willing
13. Suicide
14. The unity of the person
15. Three stoic views of time
16. Postscript
Bibliography
Index.
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