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

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, Fr...

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