Details

Subject(s)

• Stoics [Browse]
• Philosophy—Rome [Browse]

Series

• Routledge Revivals [More in this series]
• Routledge revivals

Summary note

Roman Stoicism, first published in 1911, offers an authoritative introduction to this fascinating chapter in the history of Western philosophy, which throughout the 20th century has been rediscovered and rehabilitated among philosophers, theologians and intellectual historians. Stoicism played a significant part in Roman history via the public figures who were its adherents (Seneca is perhaps the most famous); and, as it became more widely accepted, it assumed the features of a religion. The Stoic approach to physics, the universe, divine providence, ethics, law a

Notes

First published in 1911.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 18, 2014).

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Contents; I. The World-Religions; II. Heraclitus and Socrates; III. The Academy and the Porch; IV. The Preaching of Stoicism; V. The Stoic Sect in Rome; VI. Of Reason and Speech; VII. The Foundations of Physics; VIII. The Universe; IX. The Supreme Problems; X. Religion; XI. The Kingdom of the Soul; XII. The Law for Humanity; XIII. Daily Duties; XIV. Sin and Weakness; XV. Counsels of Perfection; XVI. Stoicism in Roman History and Literature; XVII. The Stoic Strain in Christianity; BIBLIOGRAPHY; I. Ancient Writers and Philosophers
• II. Modern WritersGENERAL INDEX; GREEK INDEX

ISBN

• 1-317-74320-2
• 1-315-79400-4
• 1-317-74321-0

OCLC

• 874171860
• 897457651

Doi

• 10.4324/9781315794006

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