Reading Seneca : Stoic philosophy at Rome / Brad Inwood.

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Inwood, Brad

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TextPublication details: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 376 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191530609
0191530603
9781435622470
1435622472
9780199250899
0199250898

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reading Seneca.DDC classification:

188 22

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PA6675.Z9 I59 2005eb

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Contents:

Seneca in his philosophica 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 judgement in Seneca -- Natural law in Seneca -- Reason, rationalization, and happiness -- Getting to goodness -- Seneca on freedom and autonomy -- Seneca and self-assertion.

Summary: 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 for anyone seeking to understand Seneca's fertile, wide-ranging thought and its impact on subsequent generations. - ;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 pie.

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Reprint of twelve previously published essays.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-362) and index.

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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 for anyone seeking to understand Seneca's fertile, wide-ranging thought and its impact on subsequent generations. - ;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 pie.

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