The Stoic Sage : The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates

Name: The Stoic Sage
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107024212
Price: 17800 KES
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ISBN: 9781107024212

by René Brouwer

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Classical Studies

ISBN-10 1107024218

ISBN-13 9781107024212

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 9th, 2014

Print length 242 Pages

Weight 438 grams

Dimensions 14.50 x 21.60 x 1.80 cms

Product Classification: Ancient World Ancient Greece Ancient Rome BCE period – Protohistory Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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Offers a reconstruction of one of the cornerstones of Western thought, the Stoic notion of wisdom. It explains its pivotal role within Stoicism and its historical ties with Socrates. Essential reading for philosophers and classicists, and indeed for anyone interested in the Graeco-Roman classical tradition.

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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