The Stoics Reader
eBook - PDF

The Stoics Reader

Selected Writings and Testimonia

  1. 254 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Stoics Reader

Selected Writings and Testimonia

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. Abbreviations and Conventions
  8. Lives of the Stoics (Zeno, Ariston, Herillus, Cleanthes, Sphaerus, Chrysippus)
  9. On Philosophy
  10. Logic and Theory of Knowledge
  11. Physics
  12. Ethics
  13. Later Stoic Ehitcs: A Sampler
  14. Glossary
  15. Philosophers and Philosophical Sources
  16. Index of Passages Translated
  17. Index
  18. Back Cover

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