The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-956437-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 546 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 825 g

Christopher Gill offers a new analysis of what is innovative in Hellenistic - especially Stoic and Epicurean - philosophical thinking about selfhood and personality. His wide-ranging discussion of Stoic and Epicurean ideas is illustrated by a more detailed examination of the Stoic theory of the passions and a new account of the history of this theory. His study also tackles issues about the historical study of selfhood and the relationship between philosophy and literature, especially the presentation of the collapse of character in Plutarch's Lives, Senecan tragedy, and Virgil's Aeneid. As all Greek and Latin is translated, this book presents original ideas about ancient concepts of personality to a wide range of readers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gill, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- I. The Structured Self in Stoicism and Epicureanism

- 1: Psychophysical Holism in Stoicism and Epicureanism

- 2: Psychological Holism and Socratic Ideals

- 3: Development and the Structured Self

- II. The Unstructured Self: Stoic Passions and the Reception of Plato

- 4: Competing Readings of Stoic Passions

- 5: Competing Readings of Platonic Psychology

- III. Theoretical Issues and Literary Reception

- 6: Issues in Selfhood: Subjectivity and Objectivity

- 7: Literary Reception: Structured and Unstructured Selves

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Gill is Professor of Ancient Thought at the University of Exeter.