Stoic and Epicurean Hicks RDPaperback
Stoic and Epicurean Hicks RDPaperback The ongoing popularity of Seneca's Letters from a Stoic and Marcus Aurelius's Meditations testifies to a continuing interest in Stoic philosophy. Both value…
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Stoic and Epicurean Hicks RDPaperback
The ongoing popularity of Seneca's Letters from a Stoic and Marcus Aurelius's Meditations testifies to a continuing interest in Stoic philosophy. Both value practice over theory and acknowledge the worth of sense and experience. Epicureanism offers the other side of the same coin, and in spite of the obvious differences between the two philosophies, it is easy to discern their fundamental similarities.
This classic work explores these still-vibrant schools of thought in a scholarly but accessible style.Author R. D. Both seek answers to such questions as what makes for a good life and how to determine our place in the universe. Hicks bases his exposition of the parallel systems of thought on independent study of the original authorities.
His treatment starts with an analysis of writings by early Stoics -- Zeno, Cleanthes, and Chrysippus -- and their successors,