Philosophic Pride : Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau
Christopher. Brooke
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Princeton : : Princeton University Press, , 2012.
|
|---|---|
| Omfang | 1 online resource (305 p.)
|
| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Prologue: Augustine of Hippo; Chapter One: Justus Lipsius and the Post-Machiavellian Prince; Chapter Two: Grotius, Stoicism, and Oikeiosis; Chapter Three: From Lipsius to Hobbes; Chapter Four: The French Augustinians; Chapter Five: From Hobbes to Shaftesbury; Chapter Six: How the Stoics Became Atheists; Chapter Seven: From Fénelon to Hume; Chapter Eight: Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z. - Philosophic Pride is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought. Spanning the period from Justus Lipsius's Politics in 1589 to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile in 1762, and concentrating on arguments originating from England, France, and the Netherlands, the book considers how political writers of the period engaged with the ideas of the Roman and Greek Stoics that they found in works by Cicero, Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. Christopher Brooke examines key texts in their historical context, paying s
|
| Emner | |
| Sjanger | |
| Dewey | |
| ISBN | 9780691152080
|
