By Christopher Brooke
Philosophic Pride is the 1st full-scale examine the basic position of Stoicism within the foundations of contemporary political idea. Spanning the interval from Justus Lipsius's Politics in 1589 to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile in 1762, and targeting arguments originating from England, France, and the Netherlands, the e-book considers how political writers of the interval engaged with the information of the Roman and Greek Stoics that they discovered in works by means of Cicero, Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. Christopher Brooke examines key texts of their historic context, paying specified awareness to the heritage of classical scholarship and the historiography of philosophy.
Brooke delves into the persisting stress among Stoicism and the culture of Augustinian anti-Stoic feedback, which held Stoicism to be a philosophy for the proud who denied their fallen situation. focusing on arguments in ethical psychology surrounding the rules of human sociability and self-love, Philosophic Pride info how the engagement with Roman Stoicism formed early glossy political philosophy and provides major new interpretations of Lipsius and Rousseau including clean views at the political considered Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes.
Philosophic Pride indicates how the legacy of the Stoics performed an essential function in ecu highbrow existence within the early glossy era.
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In the late republic, the Romans had lost their ability to live in accordance with true ius and thereby could no longer be said to be properly free; under the rule of the Caesars, on the other hand, the body politic was restored to health through the guidance of its virtuous ruler—‘you are the mind of your res publica and it is your body’63—and libertas was thereby restored to the people. Seneca’s argument is fashioned out of Stoic themes. ) has thus become the functional analogue of the Stoics’ wise man (vir sapiens), ‘born to assist the community and promote the common good’,68 and hence the image in the mirror that Seneca presents to the new princeps has to be a quite extraordinarily idealising one.
If, then, we are to understand this ‘impassibility’ [impassibilitas] to mean a life without those emotions which arise contrary to reason and Augustine of Hippo | 7 which disturb the mind, it is clearly a good and desirable condition. 31 The saints may enjoy apatheia in a world to come, but for the moment, We live well enough if we live without blame. But if anyone supposes that his life is without sin, he does not avoid sin, but rather forfeits pardon. 34 The Stoics, on the other hand, are citizens of the earthly city, as the following passage makes clear: The city, that is, the fellowship of the ungodly consists of those who live not according to God, but according to man: who, in worshipping false gods and despising the true Divinity, follow the teachings of men or of demons.
Far from the Stoics being in any way preferable to the Epicureans owing to their agreement with the Christians that virtue properly belongs to the mind, their philosophy has been relegated to the realm of the flesh, implicated in original sin, and found guilty of the same sins as those perpetrated by the devil, sins that were committed, furthermore, for exactly the same reasons. The familiar Ciceronian objections to Stoic apatheia are repeated (that it is both an impossible and an undesirable state of affairs at which to aim), but they are given new force through the way Augustine situates them on his broad—indeed, vast—theological canvas.