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The Stoic Sage

The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates

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Paperback, 240 blz. | Engels
Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2018
ISBN13: 9781107641778
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After Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics, from the third century BCE onwards, developed the third great classical conception of wisdom. This book offers a reconstruction of this pivotal notion in Stoicism, starting out from the two extant Stoic definitions, 'knowledge of human and divine matters' and 'fitting expertise'. It focuses not only on the question of what they understood by wisdom, but also on how wisdom can be achieved, how difficult it is to become a sage, and how this difficulty can be explained. The answers to these questions are based on a fresh investigation of the evidence, with all central texts offered in the original Greek or Latin, as well as in translation. The Stoic Sage can thus also serve as a source book on Stoic wisdom, which should be invaluable to specialists and to anyone interested in one of the cornerstones of the Graeco-Roman classical tradition.

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ISBN13:9781107641778
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:240

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Introduction; 1. Two definitions; 2. The change; 3. Sagehood; 4. Socrates; Conclusion.

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