Tad Brennan (Northwestern University Department of Philosophy)

The Stoic Life

Emotions, Duties, and Fate

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Stoicism has been one of the main currents of thought in Western civilization for two thousand years. This title offers a guide through the ethical ideas of the original Stoic philosophers, providing translations of the original texts, with annotations that allow readers to pursue further reading.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780199217052
• ISBN-10: 019921705X
• Artikelnr.: 20964107

Autorenporträt

Tad Brennan is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Introduction
1: Why be a Stoic?
2: The Ancient Stoics: People and Sources
3: The Ancient Philosophical Background
4: A Philosophical Orientation to Stoicism
II. Psychology
5: Impressions and Assent
6: Belief and Knowledge
7: Impulses and Emotions
III. Ethics
8: Goods and Indifferents
9: Final Ends
10: Oikeiosis and Others
11: Befitting Actions, Part I
12: Befitting Actions, Part II
13: Befitting Actions, Part III
IV. Fate
14: God and Fate
15: Necessity and Responsibility
16: The Lazy Argument
17: The Evolution of the Will
Conclusion
18: Taking Stock