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The stoic sage : the early stoics on wisdom, sagehood, and Socrates / René Brouwer

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Brouwer, René
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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1 online resource (x, 230 pages) : illustration
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Contents
Introduction -- Two definitions -- The change -- Sagehood -- Socrates -- Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- General index -- Index locorum.
Summary
After Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics, from the third century BCE onwards, developed the third great classical conception of wisdom. This book offers a reconstruction of this pivotal notion in Stoicism, starting out from the two extant Stoic definitions, 'knowledge of human and divine matters' and 'fitting expertise'. It focuses not only on the question of what they understood by wisdom, but also on how wisdom can be achieved, how difficult it is to become a sage, and how this difficulty can be explained. The answers to these questions are based on a fresh investigation of the evidence, with all central texts offered in the original Greek or Latin, as well as in translation. The Stoic Sage can thus also serve as a source book on Stoic wisdom, which should be invaluable to specialists and to anyone interested in one of the cornerstones of the Graeco-Roman classical tradition.
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9781107689138 (electronic bk.)
1107689139 (electronic bk.)
9781139162487 (electronic bk.)
1139162489 (electronic bk.)
9781107024212
1107024218
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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