The stoics : a guide for the perplexed / M. Andrew Holowchak.
2008
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Ebrary electronic monographs.
Title
The stoics : a guide for the perplexed / M. Andrew Holowchak.
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Imprint
London ; New York : Continuum, [2008]
Copyright
©2008
Description
x, 237 pages ; 22 cm.
Series
Guides for the perplexed.
Formatted Contents Note
A cosmic spider's web : the stoic cosmos
Pulled by the hair : how knowledge is possible
Virtue and invincibility
No place to shit : the good and conveniences
Canonical stoic view of indifferents
Living in agreement with nature
Homologia : growing toward the good
Fate and the lazy argument
On dry ground : stoic apatheia
Javelin-throwing : rules of right conduct
Stoic paradoxes : the stoic lapith
Useless weapons : knowing oneself
The stoic progressor
Stoic cosmopolitanism : standing naked before all
The good life
The strong odor of truth
Freedom : leveling fortune
Lifting the stone of ajax
A complete life and a good death
Oikeiosis : securing one's own in the footrace of life
Authenticity : living with one's door open
Virtue as peak-performance
The invincible apprentice
Invincibility as cosmic integration
Equanimity in adversity
Inconveniences : storm-clouds at sea
Tela fortunae and life on the Dead Sea
The troubled sleep of the fearful
Bravery in bedclothes
Pain: wiping a runny nose
Anger and the baying of small dogs
Grief and the broken crystal goblet
Foulest death vs. fairest servitude
Bugbears : removing the mask of ignorance
Equanimity in prosperity
Gain and the gold-leaf life
Benefaction: the cornerstone of justice
Bacchanalian revelry : birds of the night
Gormandizing and the soft life
In the footsteps of hercules
Books and scholarly self-indulgence
Friendship and self-sufficiency
Rest and restlessness : Addamus Calcar!
Rest and retirement : benefiting others
The heroic course
Hercules at a crossroads
The athletic paradigm : winning by endurance
What would socrates have done?
Education : saving the shipwrecked mariners
Teacher as physician : towering above fortune
Stoic curatives
Epistemological curatives
Ethical curatives
Signs of progress : the contest is now.
Pulled by the hair : how knowledge is possible
Virtue and invincibility
No place to shit : the good and conveniences
Canonical stoic view of indifferents
Living in agreement with nature
Homologia : growing toward the good
Fate and the lazy argument
On dry ground : stoic apatheia
Javelin-throwing : rules of right conduct
Stoic paradoxes : the stoic lapith
Useless weapons : knowing oneself
The stoic progressor
Stoic cosmopolitanism : standing naked before all
The good life
The strong odor of truth
Freedom : leveling fortune
Lifting the stone of ajax
A complete life and a good death
Oikeiosis : securing one's own in the footrace of life
Authenticity : living with one's door open
Virtue as peak-performance
The invincible apprentice
Invincibility as cosmic integration
Equanimity in adversity
Inconveniences : storm-clouds at sea
Tela fortunae and life on the Dead Sea
The troubled sleep of the fearful
Bravery in bedclothes
Pain: wiping a runny nose
Anger and the baying of small dogs
Grief and the broken crystal goblet
Foulest death vs. fairest servitude
Bugbears : removing the mask of ignorance
Equanimity in prosperity
Gain and the gold-leaf life
Benefaction: the cornerstone of justice
Bacchanalian revelry : birds of the night
Gormandizing and the soft life
In the footsteps of hercules
Books and scholarly self-indulgence
Friendship and self-sufficiency
Rest and restlessness : Addamus Calcar!
Rest and retirement : benefiting others
The heroic course
Hercules at a crossroads
The athletic paradigm : winning by endurance
What would socrates have done?
Education : saving the shipwrecked mariners
Teacher as physician : towering above fortune
Stoic curatives
Epistemological curatives
Ethical curatives
Signs of progress : the contest is now.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical referenes (pages 229-232) and index.
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Language
English
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
ISBN
9781847060440 hardback
1847060447 hardback
9781847060457 paperback
1847060455 paperback
9781441152718 e-book
1847060447 hardback
9781847060457 paperback
1847060455 paperback
9781441152718 e-book
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