Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction

Produktbeschreibung

Stoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still inspires people in the twenty-first century to re-think and re-organize their lives in order to achieve personal satisfaction. Brad Inwood presents the long history that connects these. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Ancient Stoicism and modern life
2: Reading Stoics today: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius and even Seneca
3: The origins of the school: Stoicism and Plato
4: The parts of philosophy: physics
5: The parts of philosophy: ethics
6: The parts of philosophy: logic
7: Conclusion
Further reading
Index 

Kritik

Stoicismis a wonderful guidebook to the essential concepts and basic precepts animating this most popular of the Hellenistic schools of wisdom. ... Specialists eager for a refresher course will find no better place from which to launch a reexamination. This is an eminently useful addition to the "Very Short Introductions" series. Summing up: Highly recommended CHOICE 

Autoreninfo

Brad Inwood teaches ancient philosophy at Yale University, where he moved in 2015 after many years at the University of Toronto. Educated in Ontario, at Brock University and the University of Toronto, he benefited from a year of post-graduate research at Cambridge and a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford, as well as research fellowships at the National Humanities Centre and the Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences. While most of his research has been devoted to Stoicism, he has also worked on the Presocratic Empedocles and on other areas of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy.