J. M. Rist

Stoic Philosophy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Professor Rist examines in detail a series of philosophical problems discussed by leading members of the Stoic school. He is concerned with the meaning and purpose of such Stoic paradoxes as 'all sins are equal', and the philosophical interrelation of Stoic physics and ethics as well as Stoic logic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9780521292016
• ISBN-10: 0521292018
• Artikelnr.: 26686638

Inhaltsangabe

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.