Bøger af George Stock

Neste volume introdutório, o ilustre professor de Oxford George Stock proporciona um panorama esclarecedor a respeito do estoicismo, escola filosófica helenística mais influente da história, examinando suas doutrinas básicas, bem como sua relação com o pensamento de grandes mestres como Sócrates, Platão e Cícero. Ao final do volume, George Stock expõe as principais datas e autoridades ligadas aos ensinamentos estoicos, com informações relevantes para auxiliar em consultas.

If you strip Stoicism of its paradoxes and its wilful misuse of language, what is left is simply the moral philosophy of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, dashed with the physics of Heraclitus. Stoicism was not so much a new doctrine as the form under which the old Greek philosophy finally presented itself to the world at large. It owed its popularity in some measure to its extravagance. A great deal might be said about Stoicism as a religion and about the part it played in the formation of Christianity but these subjects were excluded by the plan of this volume which was to present a sketch of the Stoic doctrine based on the original authorities.