The Stoics Reader : Selected Writings and Testimonia

Brad Inwood

ISBN 10: 0872209539 / ISBN 13: 9780872209534

Published by Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Sep 2008, 2008

About this Item

Neuware - This volume gathers together the most important evidence about Stoic thought surviving from the ancient world. It is an expanded version of the section on Stoicism in Inwood and Gerson's Hellenistic Philosophy, consolidating related texts into larger, more continuous selections, adding material on the skeptical attack on Stoicism, and a short section that introduces the reader to some of the more interesting texts on Stoic ethics from the Roman imperial period. Inwood and Gerson provide lucid, accurate translations, an Introduction that sets the works included in historical and philosophical context, a glossary of terms, a glossary of philosophers and philosophical sources, an index of passages translated, and a subject index.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Stoics Reader : Selected Writings and Testimonia
• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Sep 2008
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0872209539
• ISBN 13: 9780872209534
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 227W x 149H x 19D millimeters 227 millimeters width by 149 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 402 grams

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Synopsis

This volume gathers together the most important evidence about Stoic thought surviving from the ancient world. It is an expanded version of the section on Stoicism in Inwood and Gerson's Hellenistic Philosophy, consolidating related texts into larger, more continuous selections, adding material on the skeptical attack on Stoicism, and a short section that introduces the reader to some of the more interesting texts on Stoic ethics from the Roman imperial period.

Inwood and Gerson provide lucid, accurate translations, an Introduction that sets the works included in historical and philosophical context, a glossary of terms, a glossary of philosophers and philosophical sources, an index of passages translated, and a subject index.

About the Author

Brad Inwood is Professor of Philosophy and Classics, University of Toronto.

Lloyd P. Gerson is Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto.