Hellenistic and Early Modern Philosophy

List of abbreviations; Notes on contributors; Preface Jon Miller and Brad Inwood; Introduction J. B. Schneewind; 1. Stoicism in the philosophical tradition: Spinoza, Lipsius, Butler A. A. Long; 2. Early modern uses of Hellenistic philosophy: Gassendi's epicurean project Margaret J. Osler; 3. Locke's offices Phillip Mitsis; 4. Patience sans Espérance: Leibniz's critique of stoicism Donald Rutherford; 5. Epicureanism in early modern philosophy: Leibniz and his contemporaries Catherine Wilson; 6. Stoics, Grotius and Spinoza on moral deliberation Jon Miller; 7. The Discourse on the Method and the tradition of intellectual autobiography Stephen Menn; 8. Subjectivity, ancient and modern: the Cyrenaics, Sextus and Descartes Gail Fine; 9. Spinoza and Philo: the alleged mysticism in the Ethics Steven Nadler; 10. Hume's scepticism and ancient scepticisms Donald C. Ainslie; 11. Stoic naturalism in Butler Terence Irwin; Bibliography of primary sources; Bibliography of secondary sources; Index (general); Index (of selected text passages).