The Stoic life : emotions, duties, and fate

The Stoic life : emotions, duties, and fate / Tad Brennan.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brennan, Tad, 1962-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:	Stoics.
Online Access:	Table of contents only Publisher description

Table of Contents:

1: Why be Stoic?
The ancient Stoics: people and sources
The ancient philosophical background
An overview of Stoic ethics
2: Psychology
Impressions and assent
Belief and knowledge
Impulses and emotions
3: Ethics
Goods and indifferents
Final ends
Oikeiosis and others
What makes an action befitting?
Discovering the befitting: two models
Discovering the befitting: a better model
4: Fate
God and fate
Necessity and responsibility
The lazy argument
The evolution of the will
Taking stock.