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A. A. Long

From Epicurus to Epictetus

Name: From Epicurus to Epictetus
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Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy

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A. A. Long, one of the world's 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, psychology, epistemology, and cosmology.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Citations and Abbreviations

Part One: General

1: Hellenistic ethics and philosophical power

2: Hellenistics ethics as the art of life

Part Two: Scepticism

3: Aristotle and the history of Greek scepticism

4: Timon: Pyrrhonist and satirist Timon: Pyrrhonist and Timon: Pyrrhonist and satirist Timon: Pyrrhonist and satirist Timon: Pyrrhonist and satirist

5: Arcesilaus in his time and place

6: Scepticism about gods in Hellenistic philosophy

7: Astrology: arguments pro and contra

Part Three: Epicureanism

8: Chance and laws of nature in Epicureanism

9: Lucretius and the Epicurean self

10: Pleasure and social utility - the virtues of being Epicurean

Part Four: Early Stoicism

11: Zeno's epistemology and Plato's Theaetetus

12: Stoic psychology and the elucidation of language

13: The Stoics on world-Conflagration and everlasting recurrence

Part Five: Cicero, and Roman Stoicism

14: Cicero's Plato and Aristotle

15: Cicero's politics in De officiis

16: Stoic philosophers on persons, property ownership and community

17: Seneca on the self: why now?

18: Epictetus on understanding and managing emotions

Bibliography

Index of subjects

Index locorum

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum

14. September 2006

Sprache

englisch

Seitenanzahl

456

Autor/Autorin

A. A. Long

Verlag/Hersteller

OUP Oxford

Produktart

kartoniert

Gewicht

687 g

Größe (L/B/H)

234/156/24 mm

ISBN

9780199279128

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A. A. Long

A. A. Long is a Professor in the Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley. He has been a visiting professor at many other European universities, including most recently appointment as Belle van Zuylen Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utrecht. His other books include Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics (which has been translated into eight languages), the two-volume source book, The Hellenistic Philosophers (co-authored with David Sedley), Stoic Studies, and Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life (OUP).

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...stimulaating collection of essays...[Long] has helped to make Hellenistic philosophy a required subject for every student of classics and philosophy Sara Ahbel-Rappe, The Classical Review ...is moreover the best study of its subject to date. Nathan Powers, Princeton University

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