Philosophic Pride : : Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau / / Christopher Brooke.

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• VerfasserIn: Brooke, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Core Textbook
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

Philosophic Pride is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought. Spanning the period from Justus Lipsius's Politics in 1589 to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile in 1762, and concentrating on arguments originating from England, France, and the Netherlands, the book considers how political writers of the period engaged with the ideas of the Roman and Greek Stoics that they found in works by Cicero, Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. Christopher Brooke examines key texts in their historical context, paying special attention to the history of classical scholarship and the historiography of philosophy. Brooke delves into the persisting tension between Stoicism and the tradition of Augustinian anti-Stoic criticism, which held Stoicism to be a philosophy for the proud who denied their fallen condition. Concentrating on arguments in moral psychology surrounding the foundations of human sociability and self-love, Philosophic Pride details how the engagement with Roman Stoicism shaped early modern political philosophy and offers significant new interpretations of Lipsius and Rousseau together with fresh perspectives on the political thought of Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes. Philosophic Pride shows how the legacy of the Stoics played a vital role in European intellectual life in the early modern era.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue. Augustine of Hippo -- Chapter One. Justus Lipsius and the Post-Machiavellian Prince -- Chapter Two. Grotius, Stoicism, and Oikeiosis -- Chapter Three. From Lipsius to Hobbes -- Chapter Four. The French Augustinians -- Chapter Five. From Hobbes to Shaftesbury -- Chapter Six. How the Stoics Became Atheists -- Chapter Seven. From Fénelon to Hume -- Chapter Eight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index