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x, 300 pages 23 cm Literature on the Stoa has recently concentrated on historical accounts of the development of the school and on Stoicism as a social movement. Professor Rist's approach is to examine in detail a series of philosophical problems discussed by leading members of the Stoic school. He is not concerned with social history or with the influence of Stoicism on popular beliefs in the Ancient world, but with such questions as the relation between Stoicism and the thought of Aristotle, the meaning and purpose of such Stoic paradoxes as, "all sins are equal", and the philosophical interrelation of Stoic physics and ethics. There are chapters on aspects of Stoic logic and on the thought of particular thinkers such as Panaetius and Posidonius, but ethical problems occupy the centre of the stage Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-295) Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Aristotle and the stoic good -- 2. Zeno and Chrysippus on human action and emotion -- 3. Problems of pleasure and pain -- 4. Cynicism and stoicism -- 5. All sins are equal -- 6. Appropriate acts -- 7. Fate and necessity -- 8. The criterion of truth -- 9. Categories and their us

Author

John Michael Rist

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

1969

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521076203

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities