Later Stoicism 155 BC to AD 200

Later Stoicism 155 BC to AD 200
Author: Brad Inwood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 597
Release: 2022-05-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1107029791

The most comprehensive collection of passages from later Stoic thinkers, providing fresh translations and up-to-date commentary.

Nigidius Figulus

Nigidius Figulus
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2024-01-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004690824

Publius Nigidius Figulus, renowned senator-scholar of the late Roman Republic, wrote numerous works on a wide variety of topics, of which only 130 fragments survive. This is the first collection of academic articles on this mysterious figure, who not only was famous for his learning, but also reportedly engaged in a number of divinatory practices and went down in history as a “Pythagorean and magus” (thus St. Jerome). A group of international scholars provide a variety perspectives on Nigidius’ politics, philosophy, mythography, biology, religious studies, linguistic thought, divinatory activities, and reception, throwing new light on this fascinating Roman polymath.

Paul and the Philosophers’ Faith

Paul and the Philosophers’ Faith
Author: Suzan Sierksma-Agteres
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 956
Release: 2024-07-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004684530

The notion of faith experienced a remarkable surge in popularity among early Christians, with Paul as its pioneer. Yet what was the wider cultural significance of the pistis word group? This comprehensive work contextualizes Paul’s faith language within Graeco-Roman cultural discourses, highlighting its semantic multifariousness and philosophical potential. Based on an innovative combination of cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis, it explores ‘faith’ within social, political, religious, ethical, and cognitive contexts. While challenging modern individualist and irrational conceptualizations, this book shows how Paul uses pistis to creatively configure philosophical narratives of his age and propose Christ as its ultimate embodiment.

The World of the New Testament

The World of the New Testament
Author: Joel B. Green
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 766
Release: 2013-08-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441240543

This volume addresses the most important issues related to the study of New Testament writings. Two respected senior scholars have brought together a team of distinguished specialists to introduce the Jewish, Hellenistic, and Roman backgrounds necessary for understanding the New Testament and the early church. Contributors include renowned scholars such as Lynn H. Cohick, David A. deSilva, James D. G. Dunn, and Ben Witherington III. The book includes seventy-five photographs, fifteen maps, numerous tables and charts, illustrations, and bibliographies. All students of the New Testament will value this reliable, up-to-date, comprehensive textbook and reference volume on the New Testament world.

The History of Hylomorphism

The History of Hylomorphism
Author: David Charles
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2023-09-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0192897667

Although Aristotle was not the first to understand objects in terms of their matter and their form, the account he developed has exercised a major influence on Western philosophy to this day. The History of Hylomorphism: From Aristotle to Descartes collects sixteen essays by experts that consider aspects of the first two thousand years of the history of hylomorphism, starting with Aristotle's immediate successors and ending with Descartes. It includes discussions of Hellenistic, Roman, Arabic, medieval, and early modern philosophers, examining the ways in which Aristotle's central ideas and concepts were progressively modified by these thinkers. Hylomorphism, as we understand it today, owes much to the way in which it was interpreted, and re-interpreted, during this period. Through a study of their work we can see how questions in contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of mind, such as Descartes's mind-body problem, came to be formulated.

Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200

Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200
Author: R. W. Sharples
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2010-10-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139491520

This book provides a collection of sources, many of them fragmentary and previously scattered and hard to access, for the development of Peripatetic philosophy in the later Hellenistic period and the early Roman Empire. It also supplies the background against which the first commentator on Aristotle from whom extensive material survives, Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. AD 200), developed his interpretations which continue to be influential even today. Many of the passages are here translated into English for the first time, including the whole of the summary of Peripatetic ethics attributed to 'Arius Didymus'.

Classical Thought

Classical Thought
Author: Terence Irwin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 289
Release: 1989
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0192891774

Spanning over a thousand years from Homer to Saint Augustine, Classical Thought encompasses a vast range of material in succinct style, while remaining clear and lucid even to those with no philosophical or Classical background The major philosophers and philosophical schools are examined---the Presocratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, Epicureanism, Neoplatonism; but other important thinkers, such as Greek tragedians, historians, medical writers, and early Christian writers, are also discussed. The emphasis is naturally on questions of philosophical interest (although the literary and historical background to Classical philosophy is not ignored), and again the scope is broad---ethics, the theory of knowledge, philosophy of mind, philosophical theology. All this is presented in a fully integrated, highly readable text which covers may of the most important areas of ancient thought and in which stress is laid on the variety and continuity of philosophical thinking after Aristotle.

Language

Language
Author: Stephen Everson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1994-07-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521357951

This book is concerned to expound and analyse ancient theories of language.

Corinthian Wisdom, Stoic Philosophy, and the Ancient Economy

Corinthian Wisdom, Stoic Philosophy, and the Ancient Economy
Author: Timothy A. Brookins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2014-07-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107046378

This work re-examines the divisive wisdom in 1 Corinthians and considers the effects of wealth and formal education in Stoicism on the Corinthian church.

English Epicures and Stoics

English Epicures and Stoics
Author: Reid Barbour
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN:

In this book, Reid Barbour offers the first full account of the lively but hazardous transmission of these Hellenistic philosophies over the first half-century of Stuart rule, including the cataclysmic years of civil war that forever changed the role of classical culture in English intellectual life.