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Tad Brennan explains how to live the Stoic life - and why we might want to. He writes in a lively informal style which will bring Stoicism to life for readers who are new to ancientphilosophy. He provides translations of the original texts, with extensive annotations that will allow readers to pursue further reading.

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Book TitleStoic Life : Emotions, Duties, and Fate

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicHistory & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, General

Publication Year2007

GenrePhilosophy

AuthorTad Brennan

FormatUk-Trade Paper

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Reviews... the second volume of [Foster's] biography of Yeats completes with great elegance the most important Irish biographical project of the era., ... as much an introduction to the fraught history of Irish nationalism as a definitive life of Ireland's best-loved poet., Foster's capacity to intelligently interweave the life and the work gives the narrative resonance and depth, and immeasurably enriches our understanding of these great works., My first choice is R.F. Foster's W. B. Yeats: A Life, II: The Arch-Poet, the concluding volume of his magisterial biography of the great poet. Reading it, you don't just understand Yeats better: you understand Ireland better as well., I have never read a biography of any poet that has conveyed so clearly the genius of its subject and the talent of its author., ... the volume's distinctive and triumphant form places the poems in relief against the historical and personal documentation, rather like set pieces embedded in a film script., 'Review from previous edition Written in an informal style, the book does not get bogged down in scholarship with all the appropriate references and knowledge of the best current literature and the ancient sources. Of the several recent books in Stoicism, this has become a personal favouriteof this reviewer's by inviting the reader to take up, even of only temporarily, the Stoic lif... Brennan's book is an unusual specimen: a scholarly book that is hard to put down. Excellent bibliography and good index. Highly recommended.'Choice, R.F. Foster's training as an historian and his feeling for literature join together to create both a formidable scholarly work and a marvellous story., There are few writers better able to place Yeats in a broader historical, political and, yes, religious context ... a magisterial biography., 'To be able to expound a complex doctrine like Stoic ethics - rendered even more difficult by the evidence's fragmentary nature - in a lucid and trenchant manner is in itself a sign of philosophical acumen, but Brennan goes beyond mere exposition by advancing some of his own views. . . . Tosummarize the book would be to write it again, so rich is its content.'Gretchen Reydams-Schils, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, ... for those who think the poetry of Yeats one of the great inheritances of the century now mercifully finished, the second instalment of the mighty work of University of Oxford historian R. F. Foster is welcome., Foster, a historian with a great literary sensibility, masterfully tells the story of W.B. Yeats, and the whole landscape of the poet emerges afresh., The completion of this biography is in itself a moment of cultural rearticulation in Ireland. The work involved is staggering, but the narrative carries it with the ease of a lifting wave., Foster's takes on the great poems are as good as anything one will find, and better than most because of his detailed understanding of their contexts and the clarity of his prose., Again Foster approaches Yeat's memoirs with skepticism, shrewdly and scrupulously applying the historical facts to Yeats's self-made image and his poetry., [Foster] places Yeats in a scrupulously balanced context. While he does not hide the poet's reactionary views, he also demonstrates that those were free of the taint of anti-Semitism ... Foster is also an admirable interpreter of the poems., Foster tells the whole story with just that blend of empathy and scepticism which allows him to register the frequent absurdities amidst all the grandeur., Foster is wonderfully readable; he keeps a courteous rein on his scepticism, but it is given occasional licence to fine comic effect., This is a hugely absorbing, meticulously researched, stately biography of a great and peculiar man that illuminates, without explaining, the mystery of his creativity. For lovers of his work, it is an essential companion to the poetry., ... an extraordinary achievement ... this is the biography that no lover of Yeats's poetry can afford to be without., 'Magisterial' and 'monumental' are the words for which one reaches in awed response to this second volume of Roy Foster's biography of Yeats. Yet such routine blurb epithets hardly convey the book's special strengths; suppleness, subtlety, patience might come closer. What is remarkable is the tenacity and skill with which the historian has stuck to his task., In writing this biography of Yeats as one biography of Ireland in his times, Foster is writing a new kind of history, as well as a new kind of biography., The overwhelming impression one carries away from this wonderful book is one of dense activity, constant creativity, endless self-examination and extraordinary achievement, packed into the last 20 years of Yeats's life. That all of this can be clearly laid out, and expertly mediated to us, is a mark of Foster's great scholarship, fine intelligence and detached empathy., The treatment afforded Leda and the Swan can be taken as a touchstone of the book's method and manner. Dilligent, thorough, unobstructed by jargon or modishness, careful with the details of both the life and any poem under consideration, measured and intelligent in its readings and criticism, this is a model approach to literary biography., R.F. Foster's W.B. Yeats: A Life: II: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939 achieved that rare feat of becoming a classic on publication. One of its greatest illuminations is on the imaginative and deeply necessary role Yeats played in the embryonic years of the Free State., ... this triumphant sequel to The Apprentice Mage, Roy Foster's first volume of biography, which traced the poet's development until his 50th year. The new volume lives up to the expectations created by that greatly lauded book. It is rammed with a life that comes from its subject's Shakespearean capacity to be simultaneously at home in the worlds of high policy and deep imagining and its author's Boswellian attentiveness to his every mental and physical move., The rich, messy, complicated, heroic and ignoble life of Yeats is all here ... Above all, [Foster] shows throughout how, with Yeats, the life generated the poetry and the poetry animated the life., ... the biography will be invaluable to scholars, who will mine it for decades to come. Every decent library should have it., ... it is the miracle of this book that it is exhaustive without ever being exhausting. The narrative never flags, and the writing never falters; neither the intricacies of the political situation, nor the deft and sometimes daft ingenuities of Yeats's A Vision stop the pace. And the poems are treated with a brief eloquence that makes them instantly more readable., Foster's control of such voluminous material is remarkable in itself, but it is not achieved at the expense of lucidity nor of intelligent reading of the poetry. And through its long course we are constantly enlivened by Foster's ironical wit., The biography of the year - of the decade - is surely R.F. Foster's W. B. Yeats: A Life, II: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939, a magnificent account of a magnificent life, and a timely redefinition of that difficult concept "Irishness"., Foster reminds us every so often of what is happening offstage as well as on, giving a sense of depth and perspective to the emerging portrait., The Apprentice Mage gave promise of a masterwork and the promise is fulfilled in The Arch-Poet. What we have now is one of the great biographies, as affectionate as it is scholarly, intellectually equal to the tasks it sets itself., To restore openness to each moment of a long, rich life requires a mastery of many different planes of narrative, all unfolding simultaneously ... Foster's gifts as a narrative historian, as well as his talent for archival research, mean that he is equal to the task. The amount of detail included in some paragraphs is quite astonishing, yet the prose never seems weighed down by this knowledge. The result is not only a major study in itself, but a trove which will be mined by commentators for years to come., 'Review from previous edition Written in an informal style, the book does not get bogged down in scholarship with all the appropriate references and knowledge of the best current literature and the ancient sources. Of the several recent books in Stoicism, this has become a personal favourite of this reviewer's by inviting the reader to take up, even of only temporarily, the Stoic lif... Brennan's book is an unusual specimen: a scholarly book that is hard toput down. Excellent bibliography and good index. Highly recommended.'Choice'To be able to expound a complex doctrine like Stoic ethics - rendered even more difficult by the evidence's fragmentary nature - in a lucid and trenchant manner is in itself a sign of philosophical acumen, but Brennan goes beyond mere exposition by advancing some of his own views. . . . To summarize the book would be to write it again, so rich is its content.'Gretchen Reydams-Schils, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, "Brennan's book is an unusual specimen: a scholarly book that is hard to put down.... Highly recommended."--CHOICE

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Table Of ContentI. Introduction1. Why be a Stoic?2. The Ancient Stoics: People and Sources3. The Ancient Philosophical Background4. A Philosophical Orientation to StoicismII. Psychology5. Impressions and Assent6. Belief and Knowledge7. Impulses and EmotionsIII. Ethics8. Goods and Indifferents9. Final Ends10. Oikeiosis and Others11. Befitting Actions, Part I12. Befitting Actions, Part II13. Befitting Actions, Part IIIIV. Fate14. God and Fate15. Necessity and Responsibility16. The Lazy Argument17. The Evolution of the WillConclusion18. Taking Stock

SynopsisTad Brennan explains how to live the Stoic life - and why we might want to. Stoicism has been one of the main currents of thought in Western civilization for two thousand years: Brennan offers a fascinating guide through the ethical ideas of the original Stoic philosophers, and shows how valuable these ideas remain today, both intellectually and in practice. He writes in a lively informal style which will bring Stoicism to life for readers who are new to ancient philosophy. The Stoic Life will also be of great interest to philosophers and classicists seeking a full understanding of the intellectual legacy of the Stoics. Brennan starts from scrupulous attention to the evidence (references are provided to all of the standard collections of Stoic texts). He provides translations of the original texts, with extensive annotations that will allow readers to pursue further reading. No knowledge of Greek is required. An introductory section provides context by introducing the reader to the most important figures in the Stoic school, the philosophical climate in which they worked, and a brief summary of the leading tenets of the Stoic system. After this context is established, the book is divided into three sections. The first provides a thorough exploration of the Stoic school's theories of psychology, focusing on their analyses of fear, desire, and other emotions. The second develops the more centrally ethical topics of value, obligation, and right action. The third part explores the Stoic school's views on fate, determinism, and moral responsibility. For anyone interested in the origins of Western ethical thought, who wishes to understand the vast influence that Stoic philosophy has had on philosophy and religion up to our time, this book will be essential reading., Tad Brennan explains how to live the Stoic life--and why we might want to. Stoicism has been one of the main currents of thought in Western civilization for two thousand years: Brennan offers a fascinating guide through the ethical ideas of the original Stoic philosophers, and shows how valuable these ideas remain today, both intellectually and in practice. He writes in a lively informal style which will bring Stoicism to life for readers who are new to ancient philosophy. The Stoic Life will also be of great interest to philosophers and classicists seeking a full understanding of the intellectual legacy of the Stoics., Tad Brennan explains how to live the Stoic life - and why we might want to. Stoicism has been one of the main currents of thought in Western civilization for two thousand years: Brennan offers a fascinating guide through the ethical ideas of the original Stoic philosophers, and shows how valuable these ideas remain today, both intellectually and in practice. He writes in a lively informal style which will bring Stoicism to life for readers who are new to ancient philosophy. The Stoic Life will also be of great interest to philosophers and classicists seeking a full understanding of the intellectual legacy of the Stoics.

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