A01=Margaret Graver
academic
analysis
ancient
Author_Margaret Graver
behavior
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Category=QDTM
classical
classics
emotional
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ethics
greece
greek
historical
history
human
humanity
ignorance
interpretation
judgment
mind
philosopher
philosophical
philosophy
physiological
psychological
rational
research
response
right and wrong
roman
rome
scholarly
stoic
value
virtue
Product details
- ISBN 9780226305585
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 17 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2009
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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On the surface, stoicism and emotion seem like contradictory terms. Yet the Stoic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome were deeply interested in the emotions, which they understood as complex judgments about what we regard as valuable in our surroundings. "Stoicism and Emotion" shows that they did not simply advocate a suppression of feeling, as stoicism implies in today's English, but instead conducted a searching examination of these powerful psychological responses, seeking to understand what attitude toward them expresses the deepest respect for human potential. In this work, Margaret R. Graver gives a compelling new interpretation of the Stoic position. Drawing on a vast range of ancient sources, she argues that the chief demand of Stoic ethics is not that we should suppress or deny our feelings, but that we should perfect the rational mind at the core of every human being.
Margaret R. Graver is professor of classics at Dartmouth College.
