Shakespeare and Stoic Ethics, Volume 1University of Wisconsin, 1965 - 886 pages |
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... remains indisputable that Plutarch him- self attacked some of the most central tenets of the Stoic philosophy . He rejects the Stoic concept of Fate as ob- jectionable in making God responsible for the evil in the 15 world . In the ...
... remains indisputable that Plutarch him- self attacked some of the most central tenets of the Stoic philosophy . He rejects the Stoic concept of Fate as ob- jectionable in making God responsible for the evil in the 15 world . In the ...
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... remains operative , or , at least , it is accorded automatic courtesies . Perhaps it is precisely because Boethius was so important in the Middle Ages that he is largely ignored by the Renaissance Neo - Stoics . Per- haps it is because ...
... remains operative , or , at least , it is accorded automatic courtesies . Perhaps it is precisely because Boethius was so important in the Middle Ages that he is largely ignored by the Renaissance Neo - Stoics . Per- haps it is because ...
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... remains captain of his fate , at least until his ambition overleaps itself ; the overreacher whose tragedy is more of an action than a passion , rather an assertion of man's will than an acceptance of God's.77 Justus Lipsius offers a ...
... remains captain of his fate , at least until his ambition overleaps itself ; the overreacher whose tragedy is more of an action than a passion , rather an assertion of man's will than an acceptance of God's.77 Justus Lipsius offers a ...
Contents
GREEK STOICISM | 29 |
ROMAN STOICISM | 53 |
STOICISM IN THE RENAISSANCE | 99 |
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