Passions and Perceptions
Studies in Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind

This volume considers the important contributions to philosophy made by the philosophers of the Hellenistic schools.

Jacques Brunschwig (Edited by), Martha C. Nussbaum (Edited by)

9780521034982, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 14 December 2006

380 pages
22.8 x 15.1 x 2 cm, 0.576 kg

The philosophers of the Hellenistic schools in ancient Greece and Rome (Epicureans, Stoics, Sceptics, Academics, Cyrenaics) made important contributions to the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of psychology. This volume, which contains the proceedings of the Fifth Symposium Hellenisticum, describes and analyses their contributions on issues such as: the nature of perception, imagination and belief; the nature of the passions and their role in action; the relationship between mind and body; freedom and determinism; the role of pleasure as a goal; the effects of poetry on belief and passion. Written with a high level of historical and philosophical scholarship, the essays are intended both for classicists and for specialists interested in the philosophy of mind.

Preface
Avant-propos
Part I. Ethics and Psychology of Hedonism: 1. Epicurean hedonism Gisela Striker
2. Annicéris et les plaisirs psychiques: quelques préalables doxographiques André Laks
Part II. Atomism and Epicurean Psychology: 3. Epicurus on agency Julia Annas
4. Democritus and Epicurus on sensible qualities David Furley
Part III. The Passions: 5. Poetry and the passions: two Stoic views Martha C. Nussbaum
6. Seneca and psychological dualism Brad Inwood
7. Actions and passions: affection, emotion and moral self-management in Galen's philosophical psychology James Hankinson
Part IV. Stoic Psychological Concepts: 8. De la 'nature phantastique' des animaux chez les Stoïciens Jean-Louis Labarrière
9. Le concept de doxa des Stoïciens à Philon d'Alexandrie: essai d'étude diachronique Carlos Lévy
10. Seneca on reason, rules and moral development Phillip Mitsis
11. Chrysippus on psychophysical causality David Sedley
Bibliography
Subject index
Name index
Index

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 [HPCA]