The Stoics Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia

✍ Scribed by Brad Inwood (translator), Lloyd P. Gerson (translator)

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 254
• Category: Library

✦ 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Introduction......Page 11
Abbreviations and Conventions......Page 17
Lives of the Stoics (Zeno, Ariston, Herillus, Cleanthes, Sphaerus, Chrysippus)......Page 18
On Philosophy......Page 25
Logic and Theory of Knowledge......Page 28
Physics......Page 68
Ethics......Page 130
Later Stoic Ehitcs: A Sampler......Page 194
Glossary......Page 223
Philosophers and Philosophical Sources......Page 229
Index of Passages Translated......Page 233
Index......Page 237
Back Cover......Page 254