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100 1 $aHolowchak, Mark,$d1958-
245 14 $aThe stoics :$ba guide for the perplexed /$cM. Andrew Holowchak.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bContinuum,$c2008.
300 $a237 p. ;$c22 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aA 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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 229-232) and index.
520 8 $aStoicism was a key philosophical movement in the Hellenistic period. The Stoics are central to the study of ethics and ancient philosophy. This text sketches, from Zeno to Aurelius, a framework that captures the tenor of Stoic ethical thinking in its key terms.
650 0 $aStoics.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aHolowchak, Mark, 1958-$tStoics.$dLondon ; New York : Continuum, ©2008$w(OCoLC)654373949
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