Shakespeare and Stoic Ethics, Volume 1University of Wisconsin, 1965 - 886 pages |
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Page 72
... stage to the last fall of the curtain.43 44 The same statement may be found in Marcus Aurelius . The important thing is to leave the stage having played the part well , whatever it may have been , as determined by the gods : 45 ou ...
... stage to the last fall of the curtain.43 44 The same statement may be found in Marcus Aurelius . The important thing is to leave the stage having played the part well , whatever it may have been , as determined by the gods : 45 ou ...
Page 209
... stage motif of the Stoics was often used to illustrate the idea that the argument of the play in which all men act is their moral conduct . The world is a stage , and the gods find their pleasure in watching men react to moral crises ...
... stage motif of the Stoics was often used to illustrate the idea that the argument of the play in which all men act is their moral conduct . The world is a stage , and the gods find their pleasure in watching men react to moral crises ...
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... stage , but the part which man must play centers on his struggle against the three traditional figures of evil , the World , the Flesh , and the Devil . Here he may seem medieval , perhaps closer to the stage of Everyman than of Macbeth ...
... stage , but the part which man must play centers on his struggle against the three traditional figures of evil , the World , the Flesh , and the Devil . Here he may seem medieval , perhaps closer to the stage of Everyman than of Macbeth ...
Contents
GREEK STOICISM | 29 |
ROMAN STOICISM | 53 |
STOICISM IN THE RENAISSANCE | 99 |
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