Reading Seneca : Stoic philosophy at Rome

Reading Seneca : Stoic philosophy at Rome / Brad Inwood.

Brad Inwood presents a selection of his most influential essays on the philosophy of Seneca, the Roman Stoic thinker, statesman, and tragedian of the first century AD. Including two brand-new pieces, and a helpful introduction to orient the reader, this volume will be an essential guide for anyone s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Inwood, Brad
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, > approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. > Criticism and interpretation.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, > approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Stoics.
Ethics, Ancient.
stoicism.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
Ethics, Ancient
Stoics
Stoa.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Seneca in his philosophica milieu
  • Seneca and psychological dualism
  • Politics and paradox in Seneca's De beneficiis
  • Rules and reasoning in stoic ethics
  • The will in Seneca
  • God and human knowledge in Seneca's Natural questions
  • Moral judgement in Seneca
  • Natural law in Seneca
  • Reason, rationalization, and happiness
  • Getting to goodness
  • Seneca on freedom and autonomy
  • Seneca and self-assertion.

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