Stoicism & emotion [electronic resource] / Margaret R. Graver.
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TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.Description: x, 289 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780226305202 (electronic bk.)
- 0226305201 (electronic bk.)
- Stoicism and emotion
- 128/.37093 22
- B528 .G73 2007eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-268) and indexes.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Emotion and norms for emotion -- 1. A science of the mind -- The psychic material -- The central directive faculty -- Thought, belief, and action -- Affective events -- 2. The pathetic syllogism -- Emotions and ascriptions of value -- Appropriateness -- Evaluations and their objects -- The stoic ethical stance -- Eupathic responses -- Classification by genus -- Classification by species -- Some remaining questions -- 3. Vigor and responsibility -- Rollability -- Overriding impulses -- Medea and Odysseus -- Plato and Platonists -- The Posidonian objections -- Freedom -- 4. Feelings without assent -- Beginnings and "bitings" at Athens -- The Senecan Account -- "A requirement of the human condition" -- Alexandrian Propatheiai -- A stoic essential -- 5. Brutishness and insanity -- Orestes and the Phantastikon -- Melancholic loss of virtue -- Fluttery ignorance -- Emotions as causes -- Brutishness -- Seneca's three movements --
6. Traits of character -- Scalar conditions of mind -- Fondnesses and aversions -- Proclivities -- Habitudes of the wise -- 7. The development of character -- Empiricism and corruption -- The twofold cause -- Cicero's Hall of Mirrors -- The establishment of traits -- Autonomy and luck -- 8. City of friends and lovers -- Concern for others -- Proper friendship and the wise community -- Friendship and self-sufficiency -- Optimistic love -- Ordinary affections -- 9. The tears of Alcibiades -- Wisdom and remorse -- Strategies for consolation -- The status of premise 2 -- Progressor-pain and moral shame -- Apatheia revisited -- Appendix : The status of confidence in stoic classifications -- List of abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index locorum -- General index.
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