Reading Seneca: Stoic Philosophy at Rome

by Brad Inwood

Overview

Brad Inwood presents a selection of his most celebrated essays on the philosophy of Seneca, the Roman Stoic thinker, statesman, and tragedian of the first century AD. Including two brand-new pieces, and a helpful introduction to orient the reader, this volume will be an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand Seneca's important and wide-ranging thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199250899
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/18/2005
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Brad Inwood is Canada Research Chair in Ancient Philosophy and Professor of Classics and Philosophy at the University of Toronto

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Seneca in his Philosophical Milieu2. Seneca and Psychological Dualism3. Politics and Paradox in Seneca's De Benefeciis4. Rules and Reasoning in Stoic Ethics5. The Will in Seneca6. God and Human Knowledge in Seneca's Natural Questions7. Moral Judgement in Seneca8. Natural Law in Seneca9. Reason, Rationlization, and Happiness in Seneca10. Getting to Goodness11. Seneca on Freedom and Autonomy12. Seneca on Self Assertion

Editorial Reviews

"For classical scholars who wish to take an integrative approach to him, Reading Seneca provides invaluable guidance to an essential part of the whiole. For those who remain skeptical of Seneca's worth as a philosopher, Inwood's sober assessments of Seneca's achivements, his shortcomings and the inspiration they have provided to later thinkers should provide powerful inducement to take seriously as a philosopher this 'literary genius—or a man who thought himself one."—Amanda Wilcox, Reviews in Metaphysics

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