Stoicism
Traditions and Transformations

This volume, first published in 2004, asks how did Stoicism influence Western thought after Greek and Roman antiquity?

Steven K. Strange (Edited by), Jack Zupko (Edited by)

9780521181648, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 31 December 2010

310 pages
22.6 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.46 kg

"...twelve excellent essays...All papers are of high quality. The collection as a whole...may be very well used as a starting-point by readers who wish to enter the field."
-Joachim Lukoschus, Nijmegen, Netherlands, The Classical Bulletin

Stoicism is now widely recognised as one of the most important philosophical schools of ancient Greece and Rome. But how did it influence Western thought after Greek and Roman antiquity? The question is a difficult one to answer because the most important Stoic texts have been lost since the end of the classical period, though not before early Christian thinkers had borrowed their ideas and applied them to discussions ranging from dialectic to moral theology. Later philosophers became familiar with Stoic teachings only indirectly, often without knowing that an idea came from the Stoics. The contributors recruited for this volume, first published in 2004, include some of the leading international scholars of Stoicism as well as experts in later periods of philosophy. They trace the impact of Stoicism and Stoic ideas from late antiquity through the medieval and modern periods.

Introduction Steven K. Strange and Jack Zupko
1. The Socratic imprint of Epictetus' philosophy A. A. Long
2. The Stoics on the voluntariness of the passions Steven K. Strange
3. Stoicism and the Apostle Paul: a philosophical reading Troels Engberg-Pedersen
4. Moral judgment in Seneca Brad Inwood
5. Stoic first movements in Christianity Richard Sorabji
6. Where were the Stoics in the Middle Ages? Sten Ebbesen
7. Abelard's Stoicism and its consequences Calvin Normore
8. Constance and coherence Jacqueline Lagrée
9. On the happy life: Descartes vis-à-vis Seneca Donald Rutherford
10. Psychotherapy and moral perfection: Spinoza and the Stoics on the prospect of happiness Firmin DeBrabander
11. Duties of justice, duties of material aid: Cicero's problematic legacy Martha Nussbaum
12. Stoic emotion Lawrence Becker.

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