New Stoicism (eBook)

Revised Edition

Lawrence C. Becker (Autor)

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2017 | Revised Edition
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8838-2 (ISBN)

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Lawrence C. Becker is a fellow of Hollins University and professor emeritus of philosophy at the College of William & Mary. He was an associate editor of the journal Ethics from 1985-2000, and the editor, with Charlotte B. Becker, of two editions of the Encyclopedia of Ethics.

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What would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had survived as a systematic approach to ethical theory, if it had coped successfully with the challenges of modern philosophy and experimental science? A New Stoicism proposes an answer to that question, offered from within the stoic tradition but without the metaphysical and psychological assumptions that modern philosophy and science have abandoned. Lawrence Becker argues that a secular version of the stoic ethical project, based on contemporary cosmology and developmental psychology, provides the basis for a sophisticated form of ethical naturalism, in which virtually all the hard doctrines of the ancient Stoics can be clearly restated and defended.Becker argues, in keeping with the ancients, that virtue is one thing, not many; that it, and not happiness, is the proper end of all activity; that it alone is good, all other things being merely rank-ordered relative to each other for the sake of the good; and that virtue is sufficient for happiness. Moreover, he rejects the popular caricature of the stoic as a grave figure, emotionally detached and capable mainly of endurance, resignation, and coping with pain. To the contrary, he holds that while stoic sages are able to endure the extremes of human suffering, they do not have to sacrifice joy to have that ability, and he seeks to turn our attention from the familiar, therapeutic part of stoic moral training to a reconsideration of its theoretical foundations.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.8.2017
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: affection • Agency (philosophy) • Amherst College • Analogy • Aristotelianism • Aristotle • awareness • Axiom • Cambridge University Press • Causality • Chrysippus • Concept • Consciousness • Consequentialism • Contemporary Philosophy • Criticism • Deliberation • De officiis • Deontic Logic • Developmental Psychology • Disposition • Doctrine • Dualism (philosophy of mind) • Emergence • Emily Dickinson • Epictetus • Epicureanism • ethics • Eudaimonia • Excellence • Explanation • Fatalism • Feeling • Good and evil • Holism • human behavior • inference • Inquiry • judgement • Julia Annas • loeb classical library • Logic • Martha Nussbaum • Materialism • Matter of fact • Meditations • Modal Logic • modern philosophy • Modus Vivendi • Moral absolutism • moral agency • Moral Character • Moral Development • Morality • moral psychology • Motivation • normative • owen flanagan • Oxford University Press • Panaetius • pessimism • phenomenon • Philosopher • Philosophy • Phronesis • Pleasure • Political Philosophy • Posidonius • Practical reason • Prediction • Principle • Proposition • Propositional Calculus • Psychology • psychotherapy • Pure practical reason • Rationality • reason • Requirement • rhetoric • Self-Image • Self-Interest • Self-preservation • skepticism • Social Contract • Stoicism • Subjectivity • Suffering • Suggestion • Temperance (virtue) • The Monist • Theology • theory • Thought • treatise • Utilitarianism • Value (ethics) • virtue • Virtue Ethics • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8838-7 / 1400888387
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8838-2 / 9781400888382