Hellenistic Ethics and Philosophical Power
The legacy of the Hellenistic philosophers is unique in one respect. Since the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the English language has appropriated the words stoic(al), skeptic(al), epicure(an), and cynic(al) as ways of describing character, attitudes, and behavior. These terms have lost some...
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