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Author Jedan, Christoph, author.

Title Stoic virtues : Chrysippus and the theological foundations of stoic ethics / Christoph Jedan.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Continuum, [2009]
2009

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Description 1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Continuum studies in ancient philosophy
Continuum studies in ancient philosophy.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A religious world-view -- Stoic corporealism -- Stoic theology -- Two pictures of fate -- Virtue and the virtues -- Definitions of virtue -- Chrysippus: characterisation of virtue as perfect state -- Virtue as consistent character -- The virtues as epistmai -- The virtues, different yet inseparable -- The difference between the virtues -- The inseparability of the virtues -- A catalogue of virtues -- Ethical virtues additional (generic) virtues -- The openness of Chrysippus catalogue of virtues -- Becoming virtuous -- Vice and the attainability of virtue -- Initiation -- Virtue and happiness -- Practices of virtue -- Law and rules -- Law -- Rules and Kathkonta -- Stoic practical reasoning -- The single Kathkon and the versatility of stoic prescriptions.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Chrysippus, approximately 280 B.C.-207 B.C. or 206 B.C.
Stoics.
Virtue.
Virtues.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Jedan, Christoph. Stoic virtues : Chrysippus and the theological foundations of stoic ethics. London : Continuum, [2009] xi, 230 pages ; 25 cm. Continuum studies in ancient philosophy 9781441197948 (DLC)15705655
ISBN 9781441112521 (alk. paper)
1441112529 (alk. paper)
9781441197948
9781441119278 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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