Stoicism: Traditions and Transformations

by Edited by Steven K. Strange , Jack Zupko

• ISBN13: 9780521181648
• ISBN10: 052118164X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Stoicism is now widely recognized as one of the most important philosophical schools of ancient Greece and Rome. But how did it influence Western thought after Greek and Roman antiquity? The question is a difficult one to answer because the most important Stoic texts have been lost since the end of the classical period, though not before early Christian thinkers had borrowed their ideas and applied them to discussions ranging from dialectic to moral theology. Later philosophers became familiar with Stoic teachings only indirectly, often without knowing that an idea came from the Stoics. The contributors recruited for this volume include some of the leading international scholars of Stoicism as well as experts in later periods of philosophy. They trace the impact of Stoicism and Stoic ideas from late antiquity through the medieval and modern periods.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The socratic imprint of Epictetus' philosophy

The stoics on the voluntariness of the passions

Stoicism and the Apostle Paul: a philosophical reading

Moral judgment in Seneca

Stoic first movements in Christianity

Where were the stoics in the Middle Ages?

Abelard's stoicism and its consequences

Constance and coherence

On the happy life: Descartes vis-...-vis Seneca

Psychotherapy and moral perfection: Spinoza and the stoics on the prospect of happiness

Duties of justice, duties of material aid: Cicero's problematic legacy

Stoic emotion Lawrence Becker

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