A New Stoicism
Revised Edition
by Lawrence C. Becker
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Stoicism, Philosophy, and Social Sciences.
What would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had survived as a systematic approach to ethical theory, if it had coped successfully with the challenges of modern philosophy and experimental science A New Stoicism proposes an answer to that question, offered from within the stoic tradition but without the metaphysical and psychological assumpti...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Stoicism, Philosophy, and Social Sciences.
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Massimo Pigliucci
“My complete commentary on Larry Becker’s A New Stoicism, arguably the most important book on Stoicism since the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius...”
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