Brad Inwood

Reading Seneca

Stoic Philosophy at Rome

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Produktbeschreibung

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. This volume will be an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand Seneca's fertile, wide-ranging thought and its impact on subsequent generations..

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 597g
• ISBN-13: 9780199250905
• ISBN-10: 0199250901
• Artikelnr.: 24423440

Autorenporträt

Brad Inwood is Canada Research Chair in Ancient Philosophy and Professor of Classics and Philosophy at the University of Toronto

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Seneca in his Philosophical Milieu
2: Seneca and Psychological Dualism
3: Politics and Paradox in Seneca's De Beneficiis
4: Rules and Reasoning in Stoic Ethics
5: The Will in Seneca
6: God and Human Knowledge in Seneca's Natural Questions
7: Moral Judgement in Seneca
8: Natural Law in Seneca
9: Reason, Rationalization, and Happiness in Seneca
10: Getting to Goodness
11: Seneca on Freedom and Autonomy
12: Seneca on Self Assertion