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This book examines the historiography of nineteenth century slavery
from the perspective of the "second slavery." The concept of the
second slavery emphasizes the relationship between local histories
and world-economic transformations. It breaks with conventional
narratives of slavery by emphasizing the expansion of reconfigured
slaveries in extensive new zones of commodity production in Brazil,
Cuba and the US South as part of world-economic processes of
decolonization, industrialization, urbanization, and the creation
of mass markets. Thus, slavery was not a moribund institution.
Capitalist modernity, liberal ideology, and anti-slavery from above
or from below, faced a vigorous foe that operated within the very
economic, political, and cultural premises of the changing 19th
century world. This perspective offers an original approach to the
history of slavery. It has opened up vigorous debates over slavery
and anti-slavery, Atlantic history and capitalism. An international
group of scholars critically engage older traditions of scholarship
on Atlantic history, the economic history of slavery, and the
history of slavery in Cuba, Brazil, and the United States from the
perspective of the second slavery. Each chapter reinterprets its
subject matter in a way that opens out to dialogue between national
historiographies and to a reformulation of Atlantic and
world-economic history. This collection of essays contributes to
the development of a more productive conceptual framework for the
reconstruction and reinterpretation of the historical relation of
slavery and world capitalism during the nineteenth century.
The Stoics on Determinism and Compatibilism is an important book
which reconstructs the arguments deployed by the Stoics in favour
of the view that everything is necessary and examines the
development of the different arguments given by the Stoics that
this is compatible with moral responsibility and desert. The book
carefully distinguishes two separate theses in Stoic theory, that
everything that happens and is the case has a cause and that
causation is necessitating. The book also provides a new
reconstruction of Stoic compatibilism distinguishing four different
compatibilist theories. Salles has written a book which is
non-technical in it's approach and which assesses the Stoic
positions on determinism, compatibilism, freedom and responsibility
in the light of the modern debate on this issue. Covering not just
the ancient debates and thinkers such as Epictetus and Chrysippus
but also examining the compatibilist views of the major modern
theorist Harry Frankfurt, finding indications of his main
intuitions already present in the Stoic arguments and tackling the
positions of Suzanne Bobzien.
The Stoics on Determinism and Compatibilism is an important book
which reconstructs the arguments deployed by the Stoics in favour
of the view that everything is necessary and examines the
development of the different arguments given by the Stoics that
this is compatible with moral responsibility and desert. The book
carefully distinguishes two separate theses in Stoic theory, that
everything that happens and is the case has a cause and that
causation is necessitating. The book also provides a new
reconstruction of Stoic compatibilism distinguishing four different
compatibilist theories. Salles has written a book which is
non-technical in it's approach and which assesses the Stoic
positions on determinism, compatibilism, freedom and responsibility
in the light of the modern debate on this issue. Covering not just
the ancient debates and thinkers such as Epictetus and Chrysippus
but also examining the compatibilist views of the major modern
theorist Harry Frankfurt, finding indications of his main
intuitions already present in the Stoic arguments and tackling the
positions of Suzanne Bobzien.
In antiquity living beings are inextricably linked to the cosmos as
a whole. Ancient biology and cosmology depend upon one another and
therefore a complete understanding of one requires a full account
of the other. This volume addresses many philosophical issues that
arise from this double relation. Does the cosmos have a soul of its
own? Why? Is either of these two disciplines more basic than the
other, or are they at the same explanatory level? What is the
relationship between living things and the cosmos as a whole? If
the cosmos is an animate intelligent being, what is the nature of
its thoughts and actions? How do these relate to our own thoughts
and actions? Do they pose a threat to our autonomy as subjects and
agents? And what is the place of zoogony in cosmogony? A
distinguished international team of contributors provides original
essays discussing these questions.
This is a collective study, in nine new essays, of the close
connection between theology and cosmology in Stoic philosophy. The
Stoic god is best described as the single active physical principle
that governs the whole cosmos. The first part of the book covers
three essential topics in Stoic theology: the active and
demiurgical character of god, his corporeal nature and
irreducibility to matter, and fate as the network of causes through
which god acts upon the cosmos. The second part turns to Stoic
cosmology, and how it relates to other cosmologies of the time. The
third part examines the ethical and religious consequences of the
Stoic theories of god and cosmos.
Leading figures in ancient philosophy present eighteen original
papers on three key themes in the work of Richard Sorabji. The
papers dealing with Metaphysics range from Democritus to Numenius
on basic questions about the structure and nature of reality:
necessitation, properties, and time. The section on Soul includes
one paper on the individuation of souls in Plato and five papers on
Aristotle's and Aristotelian theories of cognition, with a special
emphasis on perception. The section devoted to Ethics concentrates
upon Stoicism and the complex views the Stoics held on such topics
as motivation, akrasia, oikeiosis, and the emotions. The volume
also contains a fascinating 'intellectual autobiography' by Sorabji
himself, and a full Bibliography of his works.
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