Stoic Virtues: Chrysippus and the Religious Character of Stoic Ethics

by Christoph Jedan

Book Overview

Like its ancient rivals, Stoic ethics was a form of virtue ethics, yet while the concept of virtue was clearly central to Stoic ethics, the concept of Stoic virtue has not yet been fully explored. Instead, the existing literature tends to impose on the Stoic material philosophically quite alien non-Aristotelian interpretations of virtue. According to Christoph Jedan, however, a thorough examination of the Stoic concept of virtue leads to a reassessment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441112529
• ISBN13: 9781441112521
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"