HISTORY OF HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHY

There are no prerequisites for the attendance of the course.

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1) Pierluigi Donini; Franco Ferrari, L’esercizio della ragione nel mondo classico. Profilo della filosofia antica, Torino, Einaudi, 2005 (selected sections: the section on Stoicism, pp. 216-255)
2) Stefano Maso, Filosofia a Roma. Dalla riflessione sui principi all’arte della vita, Roma, Carocci Editore, 2012 (selected sections: 1.8: Lo Stoicismo, pp. 63-85 e 4: Seneca, pp. 147-185)

B Three essays/articles/chapters of your choice form the following:
1) Margaret Graver, "A Science of the Mind", in Stoicism and Emotion, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2007 (Cap 1: pp. 15-34)
2) Margaret Graver, "The Pathetic Syllogism", in Stoicism and Emotion, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2007 (Cap 2: pp. 35-60)
3) Christelle Veillard, "Soul, Pneuma, and Blood: The Stoic Conception of the Soul", in Brad Inwood B; James Warren (eds), Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp.145-170.
4) Francesca Alesse,"Mente divina e mente umana nel pensiero stoico", in Eugenio Canone (a cura di) Per una storia del concetto di mente, "Lessico Intellettuale Europeo", 99, 2005, pp. 51-62
5) Pierluigi Donini, "Pathos nello stoicismo romano", in "Elenchos" 16, 1995, pp. 195-216
6) Pierluigi Donini, "Seneca e Galeno sulla struttura proposizionale delle passioni in Crisippo", in "Rivista di Storia della Filosofia", 62(3), 2007, pp. 431-52.
7) Anna Maria Ioppolo, "Il monismo psicologico degli Stoici antichi", in "Elenchos", 8, 1987, pp. 449-67.
8) Anna Maria Ioppolo, "L’ὁρμὴ πλεονάζουσα nella dottrina stoica della passione", in "Elenchos", 1995, 16(1), pp. 23-55.

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