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.
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.
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).
Inhaltsangabe
* 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
* 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
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