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Author:   Troels Engberg-Pedersen (University of Copenhagen)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.670kg
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9781316617366

ISBN 10:   131661736
Pages:   409
Publication Date:   19 August 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: a historiographical essay Troels Engberg-Pedersen; 2. Plato, Chrysippus and Posidonius' theory of affective movements A. G. Long; 3. Cicero's Plato Malcolm Schofield; 4. Are we nearly there yet? Eudorus on Aristotle's Categories George Boys-Stones; 5. Stoicism and Platonism in Arius Didymus Myrto Hatzimichali; 6. Oikeiōsis in Stoicism, Antiochus and Arius Didymus Christopher Gill; 7. The Platonist appropriation of Stoic epistemology Mauro Bonazzi; 8. 'Becoming like God' in Platonism and Stoicism Gretchen Reydams-Schils; 9. From Stoicism to Platonism: the difficult case of Philo of Alexandria's De providentia I David T. Runia; 10. From Cicero to Philo of Alexandria: ascending and descending axes in the interpretation of Platonism and Stoicism Carlos Lévy; 11. The love of wisdom: Middle Platonism and Stoicism in the Wisdom of Solomon Gregory E. Sterling; 12. Seneca and Epictetus on body, mind and dualism A. A. Long; 13. The dilemma of Paul's physics: features Stoic-Platonist or Platonist-Stoic? Stanley Stowers; 14. The legacy of Musonius Rufus Brad Inwood; 15. Stoic and Platonic reflections on naming in early Christian circles: or what's in a name? Harold W. Attridge; 16. Is Plutarch really hostile to the Stoics? Jan Opsomer; 17. Peripatetic appropriations of oikeiōsis: Alexander, Mantissa, chapter 17 Charles Brittain; Bibliography; Index of passages; General index.

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'The authors of these chapters are engaged, from different points of view, in reconstructing a challenging period in the history of philosophy ...' J. J. Mulhern, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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Troels Engberg-Pedersen is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen. He has moved freely between the disciplines of classics, ancient philosophy and Christian theology (the New Testament), and has published major monographs on Aristotle's Ethics, Stoic ethics, the Apostle Paul (and Stoicism) and, most recently, the Gospel of John (and philosophy).

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