The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)

Cambridge University Press, 7/2/1999
EAN 9780521779852, ISBN10: 0521779855

Paperback, 438 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

This unique volume offers an odyssey through the ideas of the Stoics in three particular ways: first, through the historical trajectory of the school itself and its influence; second, through the recovery of the history of Stoic thought; third, through the ongoing confrontation with Stoicism, showing how it refines philosophical traditions, challenges the imagination, and ultimately defines the kind of life one chooses to lead. A distinguished roster of specialists have written an authoritative guide to the entire philosophical tradition. The first two chapters chart the history of the school in the ancient world, and are followed by chapters on the core themes of the Stoic system: epistemology, logic, natural philosophy, theology, determinism, and metaphysics. There are two chapters on what might be thought of as the heart and soul of the Stoics system: ethics.

Introduction
Stoicism
an intellectual odyssey Brad Inwood
1. The school, from Zeno to Arius Didymus David Sedley
2. The school in the Roman imperial period Christopher Gill
3. Stoic epistemology R. J. Hankinson
4. Stoic logic Susanne Bobzien
5. Stoic natural philosophy (physics and cosmology) Michael J. White
6. Stoic theology Keimpe Algra
7. Stoic determinism Dorothea Frede
8. Stoic metaphysics Jacques Brunschwig
9. Stoic ethics Malcolm Schofield
10. Stoic moral psychology Tad Brennan
11. Stoicism and medicine R. J. Hankinson
12. The stoic contribution to traditional grammar David Blank and Catherine Atherton
13. The stoics and the astronomical sciences Alexander Jones
14. Stoic naturalism and its critics T. H. Irwin
15. Stoicism in the philosophical tradition
Spinoza, Lipsius, Butler A. A. Long.

'... a splendid guide to what is currently going on in work in the Stoics.' Journal of African Christian Thought