Topics in Stoic Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780199248803 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 272 str.

Katerina Ierodiako-Nou

Opis

Stoicism is one of the richest and most influential intellectual traditions of antiquity. Now, in this excellent volume, leading scholars contribute new studies of a set of topics that are at the center of current research. They combine careful analytical attention to the original texts with historical sensitivity and philosophical acuity, providing the basis for a better understanding of Stoic ethics, political theory, logic, and physics.

Recenzje

This collection of essays by prominent philosophers and classicists contains studies that specialists will find valuable... fresh and challenging readings of important issues in Stoic philosophy, which will stimulate additional response from within the scholarly community. Thus, this collection of essays not only demonstrates the vitality of scholarship on Stoicism and Hellenistic philosophy, it also further contributes to it.

O autorze

Katerina Ierodiakonou is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Hugh's College, Oxford.