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Author Jedan, Christoph.

Title Stoic virtues : Chrysippus and the religious character of stoic ethics / Christoph Jedan.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Continuum, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 230 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Continuum studies in ancient philosophy
Continuum studies in ancient philosophy.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A religious world-view -- Stoic corporealism -- Stoic theology -- Two pictures of fate -- Virtue and the virtues -- Definitions of virtue -- Chrysippus: characterization of virtue as perfect state -- Virtue as consistent character -- The virtues as epistemai -- The virtues, different yet inseparable -- The difference between the virtues -- The inseparability of the virtues -- A catalogue of virtues -- Ethical virtues additional (generic) virtues -- The openness of Chrysippus catalogue of virtues -- Becoming virtuous -- Vice and the attainability of virtue -- Initiation -- Virtue and happiness -- Practices of virtue -- Law and rules -- Law -- Rules and Kathkonta -- Stoic practical reasoning -- The single Kathkon and the versatility of stoic prescriptions.
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Subject Chrysippus, approximately 280 B.C.-207 B.C. or 206 B.C.
Chrysippus, approximately 280 B.C.-207 B.C. or 206 B.C.
Chrysippus, approximately 280 B.C.-207 B.C. or 206 B.C.
Stoics.
Stoics.
Virtue.
Virtue.
Virtues.
Virtues.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Jedan, Christoph. Stoic virtues. London ; New York : Continuum, ©2009 9781441119278 (DLC) 2009016385 (OCoLC)310401950
ISBN 9781441112521 (electronic book)
1441112529 (electronic book)
1441119272 (E-Book)
9781441119278 (E-Book)
9781441119278