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Author Inwood, Brad.

Title Reading Seneca : Stoic philosophy at Rome / Brad Inwood.

Publication Info. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 376 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Reprint of twelve previously published essays.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-362) and index.
Contents Seneca in his philosophica milieu -- Seneca and psychological dualism -- Politics and paradox in Seneca's De beneficiis -- Rules and reasoning in stoic ethics -- The will in Seneca -- God and human knowledge in Seneca's Natural questions -- Moral judgement in Seneca -- Natural law in Seneca -- Reason, rationalization, and happiness -- Getting to goodness -- Seneca on freedom and autonomy -- Seneca and self-assertion.
Summary Brad Inwood presents a selection of his most influential 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 fertile, wide-ranging thought and its impact on subsequent generations. - ;Brad Inwood presents a selection of his most influential essays on the philosophy of Seneca, the Roman Stoic thinker, statesman, and tragedian of the first century AD. Including two brand-new pie.
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Subject Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. -- Criticism and interpretation.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Criticism and interpretation.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. -- Criticism and interpretation.
Sénèque, le philosophe, approximately 4 av. J.-C.-65 -- Critique et interprétation.
Stoics.
Stoics.
Ethics, Ancient.
Ethics, Ancient.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Inwood, Brad. Reading Seneca. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 0199250898 9780199250899 (DLC) 2005296403 (OCoLC)58054349
ISBN 9780191530609 (electronic book)
0191530603 (electronic book)
9781435622470 (electronic book)
1435622472 (electronic book)
9780199250899
0199250898
0199250898
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