The Stoics Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia
by Inwood, Brad; Gerson, Lloyd P.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-09-30
Publisher(s): Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Summary
This volume gathers together the most important evidence about Stoic thought surviving from the ancient world. It is an expanded version of the section on Stoicism in Inwood and Gerson's Hellenistic Philosophy, consolidating related texts into larger, more continuous selections, adding material on the skeptical attack on Stoicism, and a short section that introduces the reader to some of the more interesting texts on Stoic ethics from the Roman imperial period. Inwood and Gerson provide lucid, accurate translations, an Introduction that sets the works included in historical and philosophical context, a glossary of terms, a glossary of philosophers and philosophical sources, an index of passages translated, and a subject index.
Table of Contents
| Lives of the Stoics (Zeno, Ariston, Herillus, Cleanthes, Sphaerus, Chrysippus) | p. 1 |
| On Philosophy | p. 8 |
| Logic and Theory of Knowledge | p. 11 |
| Perception, Knowledge, and Skeptical Attack | p. 25 |
| The Stoic-Academic Debate and Cicero's Testimony | p. 38 |
| Conceptions and Rationality | p. 47 |
| Physics | p. 51 |
| Theology | p. 58 |
| Bodily and Non-bodily Realities | p. 85 |
| Structures and Powers | p. 92 |
| The Soul | p. 97 |
| Fate | p. 101 |
| Ethics | p. 113 |
| The General Account in Diogenes Laertius | p. 113 |
| The Account Preserved by Stobaeus | p. 124 |
| The Account in Cicero On Goals | p. 151 |
| Other Evidence for Stoic Ethics | p. 157 |
| Passions and the Goal; Criticism within the Stoic School and the Evidence of Galen | p. 164 |
| A Critique from the Academic-Peripatetic Point of View | p. 170 |
| Pyrrhonist Critique of Basic Ethical Concepts | p. 172 |
| Later Stoic Ethics: A Sampler | p. 177 |
| Musonius Rufus | p. 177 |
| Seneca | p. 185 |
| Epictetus | p. 195 |
| Glossary | p. 206 |
| Philosophers and Philosophical Sources | p. 212 |
| Index of Passages Translated | p. 216 |
| Index | p. 220 |
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