The stoics a guide for the perplexed /
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
c2008.
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| Series: | Guides for the perplexed.
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Table of Contents:
- A cosmic spider's web : the stoic cosmos
- Pulled by the hair : how knowledge is possible
- Virtue and invincibility
- No place to shit : the good and conveniences
- Canonical stoic view of indifferents
- Living in agreement with nature
- Homologia : growing toward the good
- Fate and the lazy argument
- On dry ground : stoic apatheia
- Javelin-throwing : rules of right conduct
- Stoic paradoxes : the stoic lapith
- Useless weapons : knowing oneself
- The stoic progressor
- Stoic cosmopolitanism : standing naked before all
- The good life
- The strong odor of truth
- Freedom : leveling fortune
- Lifting the stone of ajax
- A complete life and a good death
- Oikeiosis : securing one's own in the footrace of life
- Authenticity : living with one's door open
- Virtue as peak-performance
- The invincible apprentice
- Invincibility as cosmic integration
- Equanimity in adversity
- Inconveniences : storm-clouds at sea
- Tela fortunae and life on the Dead Sea
- The troubled sleep of the fearful
- Bravery in bedclothes
- Pain: wiping a runny nose
- Anger and the baying of small dogs
- Grief and the broken crystal goblet
- Foulest death vs. fairest servitude
- Bugbears : removing the mask of ignorance
- Equanimity in prosperity
- Gain and the gold-leaf life
- Benefaction: the cornerstone of justice
- Bacchanalian revelry : birds of the night
- Gormandizing and the soft life
- In the footsteps of hercules
- Books and scholarly self-indulgence
- Friendship and self-sufficiency
- Rest and restlessness : Addamus Calcar!
- Rest and retirement : benefiting others
- The heroic course
- Hercules at a crossroads
- The athletic paradigm : winning by endurance
- What would socrates have done?
- Education : saving the shipwrecked mariners
- Teacher as physician : towering above fortune
- Stoic curatives
- Epistemological curatives
- Ethical curatives
- Signs of progress : the contest is now.