A Good Person for a Crisis? On the Wisdom of the Stoic Sage (in Himself & for Us)
Is the Stoic sage a possible or desirable ideal for contemporary men and women, as we enter into difficult times? Is he, as Seneca presents him, the very best person for a crisis? In order to examine these questions, Part 1 begins from what Irene Liu calls the “standard” modern conceptions of the...
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Language: | English |
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University of Warsaw
2021-06-01
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Series: | Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture |
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Online Access: | http://eidos.uw.edu.pl/a-good-person-for-a-crisis/ |