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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of contributors
Introduction
Part I: Antiquity and the Middle Ages
1. Stoicism in Rome
Seneca
Musonius Rufus
Epictetus
Marcus Aurelius
Hierocles
Coda
References
2. Stoicism in early Christianity: The Apostle Paul and the Evangelist John as Stoics
Paul on how to overcome akrasia: two questions for Romans 7:7–8:13
John on how to overcome Jesus’ death: John 13:31–17:26
Answering the philosophical question
Jesus and the Paraclete: the immediate and the distant future
Conclusion on Paul and John as Stoics
Stoicism in early Christianity beyond the New Testament
Notes
Further reading
References
3. Plotinus and the Platonic response to Stoicism
Introduction
Materialism and mechanism
Epistemology
Free will, determinism, and moral responsibility
Happiness
Conclusion
Notes
References
4. Augustine’s debt to Stoicism in the Confessions
Self-affiliation
Maturation of self-affiliation: social bonds
Augustine’s self-critiques: distorted impulses, social immaturity, failures in “proper functions”
Conclusions
Notes
Further reading
References
5. Boethius and Stoicism
Boethius’s criticism of Stoicism in his logical commentaries
The presence of Stoicism in the Consolation
“Canine spiritedness”: a psychological foundation for Stoicism
Stoicism: anesthetic to apparent goods and evils
Stoicism: thinking within the horizon of “a rational, mortal
animal, and nothing more”
Notes
References
6. Stoic themes in Peter Abelard and John of Salisbury
Abelard
John of Salisbury
Notes
Further reading
References
7. Stoic influences in the later Middle Ages
Stoicism was “everywhere and nowhere”
Ethics: a history of texts and translators
Receiving Aristotle: William of Auxerre, prudence as discretio
Interpreting Aristotle: Albert the Great and phronêsis
Integrating Aristotle: Thomas Aquinas and recta ratio agibilium
Conclusions
Notes
Further reading
References
Part II: Renaissance and Reformation
8. The recovery of Stoicism in the Renaissance
Spuria and forgeries
Syncretism and conflation
Foremost on the virtues
Chronology of textual multiplication
Notes
Further reading
References
9. Stoicism in the philosophy of the Italian Renaissance
The early fifteenth century
The mid-fifteenth century
The late fifteenth century
The early sixteenth century
Notes
Further reading
References
10. Erasmus, Calvin, and the faces of Stoicism in Renaissance and Reformation thought
Contexts for Erasmus’s and Calvin’s conceptions of Stoicism
Erasmus’s and Calvin’s editions of Seneca
Erasmus
Calvin
Conclusion
Notes
Further reading
References
11. Justus Lipsius and Neostoicism
Lipsius’s life
Physics, metaphysics, and natural theology
Anthropology and morality
Politics and history
Conclusion
Notes
References
12. Shakespeare and early modern English literature
Notes
References
Part III: Early modern Europe
13. Medicine of the mind in early modern philosophy
Introduction: a Baconian legacy
Francis Bacon: a cure for intellectual self-delusion
Descartes: the self-healing power of the mind
Spinoza: from machina intellectus to automa spirituale
Conclusion
Acknowledgement
Notes
References
14. Stoic themes in early modern French thought
Guillaume du Vair
Montaigne
Charron
Descartes
Stoicism outside moral philosophy
Anti-Stoicism
Malebranche
Antoine Le Grand
Notes
Further reading
References
15. Spinoza and the Stoics
The similarities between Stoicism and Spinozism
Spinoza’s interest in Stoicism
How Spinoza formulated a Stoic system
Acknowledgements
Notes
Further reading
References
16. Leibniz and the Stoics: fate, freedom, and providence
Against “the sect of the new Stoics”
Metaphysical rationalism: the identity of indiscernibles
and the “Stoic connectedness”
Against indeterminist freedom
The idle argument
Future contingents
Spontaneity
Intelligence as the “soul of freedom” and the freedom of the sage
Providence and evil
Notes
Further reading
References
17. The Epicurean Stoicism of the French Enlightenment
Montesquieu
Diderot and La Mettrie
Diderot and Rousseau
Diderot’s Seneca
Conclusion
Note
References
18. Stoicism and the Scottish Enlightenment
Christianity and Stoicism in Scotland before the Enlightenment
At the dawn of the Enlightenment: Stoicism and Christianity in Hutcheson’s ethics of benevolence
The Skeptic Hume on the Stoics and religion
Smith and Christian Stoicism: conscience, self-command, and humanity
Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
Notes
Further reading
References
19. Kant and Stoic ethics
Introduction
What is good? The internal determination the will as the source of value
Nature, reason, and normativity
Moral development: virtue, apathy, and inner attitude in struggle
The highest good: virtue and happiness as the complete object of the faculty of desire
Cicero, Garve, and Kant on perfect and imperfect duties
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
Further reading
References
Part IV: The modern world
20. Stoicism in nineteenth-century German philosophy
Hegel
Schopenhauer
Nietzsche
Notes
References
21. Stoicism and Romantic literature
Eighteenth-century legacies: the rise of “literature”
Revolution and radicalism
Wordsworth and Coleridge
Beyond
Note
References
22. Stoicism in Victorian culture
Stoicism in Victorian scholarship
Stoicism and Christianity
Marcus Aurelius and the Meditations
Stoicism in popular discourse
The limitations of “social Stoicism”
Notes
References
23. Stoicism in America
Stoicism in early America
Nineteenth-century Stoicism
Twentieth-century Stoicism
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
Further reading
References
24. Stoic themes in contemporary Anglo-American ethics
Ethical theory
Practical ethics
Note
References
25. Stoicism and twentieth-century French philosophy
Alain: the Stoic discovery of the will
Sartre: is Stoicism compatible with existentialism?
Canguilhem against Sartre: ethics as logic
Stoicism as a logic of events and a system: Brochard, Bréhier, Goldschmidt, Vuillemin
Deleuze: the Stoic ontology of sense as event
Foucault: Stoicism as part of the Hellenistic and Roman “culture of the self”
Foucault, Deleuze and philosophy as a Stoic art of events
Acknowledgements
Notes
Further reading
References
26. The Stoic influence on modern psychotherapy
Introduction
Early psychotherapy and the Serenity Prayer
Rational-emotive behavior therapy
Rational emotions, “preference,” and the “reserve clause”
Rational-emotive imagery and praemeditatio malorum
Cognitive-behavioral therapy
“Mindfulness” and “third-wave” CBT
Conclusion
Note
Further reading
References
Index