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On the Path to Virtue - The Stoic Doctrine of Moral Progress and Its Reception in (Middle-) Platonism (Hardcover)
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On the Path to Virtue - The Stoic Doctrine of Moral Progress and Its Reception in (Middle-) Platonism (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Series 1
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In the first part about the specific Stoic doctrine on moral
progress (prokop) attention is first given to the subtle view
developed by the early Stoics, who categorically denied the
existence of any mean between vice and virtue, and yet succeeded in
giving moral progress a logical and meaningful place within their
ethical thinking. Subsequently, the position of later Stoics
(Panaetius, Hecato, Posidonius, Seneca, Musonius Rufus, Epictetus
and Marcus Aurelius) is examined. Most of them appear to adopt a
basically 'orthodox' view, although each one of them lays his own
accents and deals with Chrysippus' tenets from his own personal
perspective. Occasionally, the 'heterodox' position of Aristo of
Chios proves to have remained influential too. The second part of
the study deals with the polemical reception of the Stoic doctrine
of moral progress in (Middle-)Platonism. The first author who is
discussed is Philo of Alexandria. Philo deals with the Stoic
doctrine in a very ideosyncratical way. He never explicitly
attacked the Stoic view on moral progress, although it is clear
from various passages in his work that he favoured the
Platonic-Peripatetic position rather than the Stoic one. Next,
Plutarch's position is examined, through a detailed analysis of his
treatise 'De profectibus in virtute'. Finally, attention is given
to two school handbooks dating from the period of Middle-Platonism
(Alcinous and Apuleius). In both of them, the Stoic doctrine is
rejected without many arguments, which shows that a correct (and
anti-Stoic) conception of moral progress was regarded in Platonic
circles as a basic knowledge for beginning students.The whole
discussion is placed into a broaderphilosophical-historical
perspective by the introduction (on the philosophical tradition
before the Stoa) and the epilogue (about later discussions in
Neo-Platonism and early Christianity).
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