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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Stoics"”.
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The Stoics and the practical: a Roman reply to Aristotle
… Cicero's De Divinatione and De Finibus, that the Stoics redefined technical expertise (technê/ars) in order to deny that having expertise in ethical matters implied knowing one’s end in life. Finally, I conclude that the Stoicism of the Tusculan Disputations places no emphasis upon gaining advance …
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The Contemplation of the Transcendent Heart: Tracing the ἡγεμονικόν from the Stoics to Origen
Origen incorporates the Stoic concept of the ἡγεμονικόν, ‘governing faculty’, into his psychology and ethics as the transcendent heart. Origen, who stands at the watershed between ‘middle’ and ‘neo’ Platonism, provides us with a distinctive perspective on how late antique thinkers were able to …
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Platonic and Stoic Passions in Philo of Alexandria
… that Philo consistently drew upon the Stoics’ depiction of all passions as irrational, excessive, and unnatural. Though Philo also joined the Stoics in condemning the passions and championing their extirpation, he is <br/>unique, even among the Stoics, in the extent and degree to which …
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The Stoic cognitive impression and the Academic Aparallaxia Argument: a study of an epistemological debate.
… of part of the epistemological debate between Stoics and the sceptical Academy, showing that the Stoic views were in part shaped by the philosophical exchange with their sceptical opponents and refined as a result of this confrontation. It focuses on the Stoic doctrine of the cognitive …
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The self-sufficiency of the good man against the need for friendship. A discussion concerning the importance of friendship for the good man in Cicero.
… a factor that contributed to happiness, for the Stoics it was essential for happiness. It would appear on inital observation that the life of the Stoic sage was a solitary one, aloof from the rest of humanity. Yet the Stoics maintained that this was the best and happiest form of life, a life …
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Kataleptic impression and the problem of justification
… of truth, arguing that the conflict between the Stoics and the Academy cannot be fully resolved through the binary lens of contemporary epistemic internalism and externalism alone. By tracing the historical evolution of the kataleptic impression from Zeno to Chrysippus, and re-evaluating the …
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Language and Reality: Stoic Semantics Reconstructed
… express universal propositions, which, for the Stoics, take the form “if something is a man, it is a rational animal”. My account sheds light on a unified semantic theory that is tightly connected to epistemology in ways that have previously been overlooked. I show that the classifications and …
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The Golden Chain: Redrawing the map of ancient allegory
… in the Stoic philosophical system; the early Stoics’ interest in allegory does have connections with the Stoics’ philosophical views, but it is better analysed in relation to developments in Hellenistic literary culture. The implications of this argument – and of the thesis as a whole – are …
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An Epicurean Kant
… by exploring Kant's interest in Epicurus and the Stoics, particularly relative to his discussion of the proper relation of happiness and virtue in the summum bonum , his use of the postulates of pure practical reason, and his deployment of the concept of selbstzufriedenheit (self-satisfaction) as …
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Memory Scapes
… or having a drink. Like the Buddhists and Stoics, I believe that each moment of life is precious and can only be fully lived through awareness or mindfulness—that our struggle for achievement needs to be balanced by quiet and reflective acceptance of self and situation. I grew up working in …
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Dispassion and the Good Life: A Study of Stoicism and Zhuangism
… of their notions of the self. In particular, the Stoics in identifying the self with the self-sufficient virtue or reason not only fails to do justice to our patiency but also renders the self formalized and empty. By contrast, the Zhuangists in identifying the self with the plurality of daos …
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Diogenes in his own time.
… of Plato an Aristotle on the one hand and the Stoics on the other overshadowed the view of the Cynicism of Diogenes which chronologically served as a bridge between them, historically rendering Cynicism for much of its history nothing more than a stopgap. The purpose of this thesis is to show …
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Stoicism as a moral system
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Natural Law Theory Under the Sun How Iranian Political Thought Viewed Tyranny as Opposed to The West
… reveals that the concept of natural law predates Stoics and it is rooted within the pre-Socratic natural philosophy. The study exposes that Aristotelian ethics and politics are rooted in the concept of natural law, ultimately giving rise to the Aristotelian "mixed form of government" and laying …
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De Opificio Lactantii: a reassessment of the work of L. Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius.
… schools of philosophy - the Epicureans, the Stoics and the New Academy. These chapters confirm that Lactantius saw himself as the Christian Cicero and they show that he is less important as a source for philosophical detail than he is for what he reveals to us about the place of Hellenistic …
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The Second Sin: A Study of the Vice of Envy in the Thought of St. Augustine
… of defective love. In striking contrast to the Stoics, who declared envy to be vicious because grief of all kinds was vicious, Augustine held envy to be a perversion of the grief which is indispensable to the life of wisdom in the present age of pilgrimage. Finally, I argue that envy is the …
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'I don't really notice where I live' : Philip Larkin's literary nationalities
… cultural exclusiveness. Introducing the ancient Stoics’ idea of cultural identity as concentric circles that denote self, family, city, nation and so on, I will argue that the universal appeal of Larkin’s poetry lies in the fact that he is always as intimately conscious in his writing of the …
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The Philokalia and Mental Wellbeing
… which draws upon Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics, and a Christian tradition which, beginning with the New Testament authors, continued through Clement, Origen and the early patristic authors, and found its first flourishing in the Desert Fathers. In particular it draws upon the …
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ΣΤΟΑ ΚΑΙ ΣΤΩΙΚΟΙ ΣΤΗ ΣΑΤΙΡΑ ΤΟΥ ΛΟΥΚΙΑΝΟΥ
ΣΤΟΧΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΡΓΑΣΙΑΣ ΑΥΤΗΣ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΝΑ ΦΑΝΟΥΝ ΟΙ ΣΤΩΙΚΟΙ ΚΑΙ ΟΙ ΙΔΕΕΣ ΤΟΥΣ ΜΕΣΑ ΣΤΗ ΔΙΑΔΙΚΑΣΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΣΑΤΙΡΙΚΟΥ ΛΟΓΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΛΟΥΚΙΑΝΟΥ. ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΣΚΟΠΟ ΑΥΤΟ ΕΠΙΛΕΓΗΣΑΝ ΤΑ ΕΞΙ ΕΡΓΑ: ΒΙΩΝ ΠΡΑΣΙΣ, ΕΡΜΟΤΙΜΟΣ 'Η ΠΕΡΙ ΑΙΡΕΣΕΩΝ, ΣΥΜΠΟΣΙΟΝ 'Η ΠΑΠΙΘΑΙ, ΦΙΛΟΨΕΥΔΕΙΣ 'Η ΑΠΙΣΤΩΝ, ΔΙΣ ΚΑΤΗΓΟΡΟΥΜΕΝΟΣ, ΖΕΥΣ ΤΡΑΓΩΔΟΣ, ΟΠΟΥ …
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Dio Chrysostom: a Philosopher in Civic Space
This thesis argues that Dio Chrysostom’s self-identification as a philosopher mattered a great deal more than what previous scholarship had suggested. Against the cultural and intellectual atmosphere of the first two centuries CE, it is argued that Dio had deliberately chosen to identify as a …
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