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Product Identifiers
PublisherHackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN-100872209520
ISBN-139780872209527
eBay Product ID (ePID)66018065
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameStoics Reader : Selected Writings and Testimonia
SubjectHistory & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Publication Year2008
TypeTextbook
AuthorBrad Inwood
Subject AreaPhilosophy
SeriesHackett Classics Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height5.5 in
Item Weight10 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width0.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2008-016794
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal188
SynopsisThis 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., 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.