Reading Seneca Stoic Philosophy at Rome

Name: Reading Seneca Stoic Philosophy at Rome
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ISBN: 9780199250905

ISBN-10: 0199250901

ISBN-13: 9780199250905

Edition: 2008

Authors: Brad Inwood

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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 foranyone seeking to understand Seneca's fertile, wide-ranging thought and its impact on subsequent generations. In each of these essays Seneca is considered as a philosopher, but with as much account as possible taken of his life, his education, his intellectual and literary background, his career, and his self-presentation as an author. Seneca emerges as a discerning and well-read Stoic, with a…

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List price: $62.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 394
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

Brad Inwood is Professor of Classics, University of Toronto.



Provenance of the Essays


Abbreviations


Introduction



Seneca in his Philosophical 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 Judgment in Seneca



Natural Law in Seneca



Reason, Rationalization, and Happiness



Getting to Goodness



Seneca on Freedom and Autonomy



Seneca and Self-assertion


Bibliography


Index of Subjects


Index Locorum