The stoics (Record no. 218978)

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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 188
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Holowchak, Mark,
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The stoics
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication London ;
-- New York :
Name of publisher Continuum,
Year of publication c2008.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages x, 237 p.
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Guides for the perplexed
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note A cosmic spider's web : the stoic cosmos -- Pulled by the hair : how knowledge is possible -- Virtue and invincibility -- No place to shit : the good and conveniences -- Canonical stoic view of indifferents -- Living in agreement with nature -- Homologia : growing toward the good -- Fate and the lazy argument -- On dry ground : stoic apatheia -- Javelin-throwing : rules of right conduct -- Stoic paradoxes : the stoic lapith -- Useless weapons : knowing oneself -- The stoic progressor -- Stoic cosmopolitanism : standing naked before all -- The good life -- The strong odor of truth -- Freedom : leveling fortune -- Lifting the stone of ajax -- A complete life and a good death -- Oikeiosis : securing one's own in the footrace of life -- Authenticity : living with one's door open -- Virtue as peak-performance -- The invincible apprentice -- Invincibility as cosmic integration -- Equanimity in adversity -- Inconveniences : storm-clouds at sea -- Tela fortunae and life on the Dead Sea -- The troubled sleep of the fearful -- Bravery in bedclothes -- Pain: wiping a runny nose -- Anger and the baying of small dogs -- Grief and the broken crystal goblet -- Foulest death vs. fairest servitude -- Bugbears : removing the mask of ignorance -- Equanimity in prosperity -- Gain and the gold-leaf life -- Benefaction: the cornerstone of justice -- Bacchanalian revelry : birds of the night -- Gormandizing and the soft life -- In the footsteps of hercules -- Books and scholarly self-indulgence -- Friendship and self-sufficiency -- Rest and restlessness : Addamus Calcar! -- Rest and retirement : benefiting others -- The heroic course -- Hercules at a crossroads -- The athletic paradigm : winning by endurance -- What would socrates have done? -- Education : saving the shipwrecked mariners -- Teacher as physician : towering above fortune -- Stoic curatives -- Epistemological curatives -- Ethical curatives -- Signs of progress : the contest is now.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Stoics.
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10472218

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