Brooke Philosophic Pride

Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-4241-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Philosophic Pride is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought. Spanning the period from Justus Lipsius's Politics in 1589 to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile in 1762, and concentrating on arguments originating from England, France, and the Netherlands, the book considers how political writers of the period engaged with the ideas of the Roman and Greek Stoics that they found in works by Cicero, Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. Christopher Brooke examines key texts in their historical context, paying special attention to the history of classical scholarship and the historiography of philosophy.

Brooke delves into the persisting tension between Stoicism and the tradition of Augustinian anti-Stoic criticism, which held Stoicism to be a philosophy for the proud who denied their fallen condition. Concentrating on arguments in moral psychology surrounding the foundations of human sociability and self-love, Philosophic Pride details how the engagement with Roman Stoicism shaped early modern political philosophy and offers significant new interpretations of Lipsius and Rousseau together with fresh perspectives on the political thought of Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes.

Philosophic Pride shows how the legacy of the Stoics played a vital role in European intellectual life in the early modern era.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brooke, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix
Prologue
Augustine of Hippo 1

Chapter One
Justus Lipsius and the Post-Machiavellian Prince 12

Chapter Two
Grotius, Stoicism, and Oikeiosis 37

Chapter Three
From Lipsius to Hobbes 59

Chapter Four
The French Augustinians 76

Chapter Five
From Hobbes to Shaftesbury 101

Chapter Six
How the Stoics Became Atheists 127

Chapter Seven
From Fénelon to Hume 149

Chapter Eight
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 181

Epilogue 203
Notes 209
Bibliography 253
Index 273

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Brooke is lecturer in political theory and the history of political thought in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, where he is a fellow of King's College.