From Epicurus to Epictetus

Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-927911-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 845 g

Autoren/Hrsg.

Long, A. A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Acknowledgements

- Citations and Abbreviations

- Part One: General

- 1: Hellenistic ethics and philosophical power

- 2: Hellenistics ethics as the art of life

- Part Two: Scepticism

- 3: Aristotle and the history of Greek scepticism

- 4: Timon: Pyrrhonist and satirist Timon: Pyrrhonist and Timon: Pyrrhonist and satirist Timon: Pyrrhonist and satirist Timon: Pyrrhonist and satirist

- 5: Arcesilaus in his time and place

- 6: Scepticism about gods in Hellenistic philosophy

- 7: Astrology: arguments pro and contra

- Part Three: Epicureanism

- 8: Chance and laws of nature in Epicureanism

- 9: Lucretius and the Epicurean self

- 10: Pleasure and social utility - the virtues of being Epicurean

- Part Four: Early Stoicism

- 11: Zeno's epistemology and Plato's Theaetetus

- 12: Stoic psychology and the elucidation of language

- 13: The Stoics on world-Conflagration and everlasting recurrence

- Part Five: Cicero, and Roman Stoicism

- 14: Cicero's Plato and Aristotle

- 15: Cicero's politics in De officiis

- 16: Stoic philosophers on persons, property ownership and community

- 17: Seneca on the self: why now?

- 18: Epictetus on understanding and managing emotions

- Bibliography

- Index of subjects

- Index locorum

Über Autor(innen)

A. A. Long is a Professor in the Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley. He has been a visiting professor at many other European universities, including most recently appointment as Belle van Zuylen Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utrecht. His other books include Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics (which has been translated into eight languages), the two-volume source book, The Hellenistic Philosophers (co-authored with David Sedley), Stoic Studies, and Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life (OUP).