English Epicures and Stoics: Ancient Legacies in Early Stuart Culture

ISBN-13: 9781558491717 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 312 str.

Reid Barbour

Opis

For 17th-century English intellectuals, the ancient Epicureans and Stoics spoke clearly and forcefully to the kinds of problems they most wanted to solve. Whether seeking to define divinity, kingship, nobility or liberty, to determine how people should live, govern, worship, form societies and interpret nature, or to mediate between pleasure and virtue - early Stuart writers time and again adapted and transformed the rival yet crossbred legacies of Epicureanism and Stoicism.