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On the Path to Virtue: The Stoic Doctrine of Moral Progress and its Reception in (Middle-)Platonism

On the Path to Virtue: The Stoic Doctrine of Moral Progress and its Reception in (Middle-)Platonism

Roskam, Geert

Hardcover

Series: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1, Book 33

PhilosophyArt History

ISBN10: 9058674762
ISBN13: 9789058674760
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: Feb 15 2005
Pages: 508
Weight: 1.93
Height: 1.13 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This study is divided into two main parts. The first one is about the specific Stoic doctrine on moral progress (prokopê). Attention is first given to the subtle view developed by the early Stoics, who categorically denied the existence of any mean between vice and virtue, and yet succeeded in giving moral progress a logical and meaningful place within their ethical thinking. Subsequently, the position of later Stoics (Panaetius, Hecato, Posidonius, Seneca, Musonius Rufus, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius) is examined. Most of them appear to adopt a basically 'orthodox' view, although each one of them lays his own accents and deals with Chrysippus' tenets from his own personal perspective. Occasionally, the 'heterodox' position of Aristo of Chios proves to have remained influential too.

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