The Stoic Theory of Oikeiosis: Moral Development and Social Interaction in Early Stoic Philosophy. Studies in Hellenistic Civilization ; 2.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Jacket somewhat rubbed with bleached spine and some scratches, otherwise very good and clean. / Umschlag etwas berieben mit verblichenem R�cken und ein paar Kratzern, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - CONTENTS: Part I -- I The Aristotelian Background and the Stoic Notion of the Telos -- II Nature�s Role -- III Oikeiosis I -- IV Oikeiosis II -- V Apatheia -- VI Morality and Action -- Part II -- VII Belief: From Rudimentary Consciousness to Knowledge -- VIII Intention and Passion: Desire as Belief -- IX Freedom. - The theory of moral development and social interaction that lies embedded in the Stoic notion of oikeiosis is universally acknowledged among scholars to be the centrepiece of early Stoic ethics, but there is little agreement as to its interpretation. Does it contain an argument proper for the Stoic understanding of the human good, or is it rather a theory about certain psychological changes in human value attachments as people grow up that may, or may not, align them with an understanding of the human good which has its foundation elsewhere, in the Stoic notions of natural teleology and pantheism? This book argues for the former view, by analysing in greater detail than is customary the main textual evidence for the concept of oikeiosis and by showing how the resulting understanding of the concept makes possible a systematic interpretation of the wider network of concepts that constitutes Stoic ethics as a whole. In the first part of the book Troels Engberg-Pedersen develops an understanding of the doctrine of oikeiosis as an argument in practical thought that is in constant dialogue with the basic conception of ethics in the immediate predecessor of the Stoics, Aristotle. He also shows that this understanding makes sense of a number of ethical doctrines for which the Stoics have always been famous, centring on those of indifference to the world (apatheia) and of a concomitant engagement in the world, e.g. in morally proper acts (kathekonta). In part II Engberg-Pedersen widens the perspective by showing how certain adjacent doctrines, which lie outside ethics proper as defined by the Stoics, fit into the overall picture. The Stoic theory of knowledge is shown to be another version of the theory of oikeiosis. The famous Stoic theory of passion (pathos) is seen to fit in too. Finally, it is suggested that the thorny problem of human freedom as conceived by the Stoics may also find its resolution in their theory of oikeiosis. ISBN 9788772883236