Passions and Perceptions

This volume considers the important contributions to philosophy made by the philosophers of the Hellenistic schools.

This symposium volume considers the important contributions to the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of psychology made by the philosophers of the Hellenistic schools of Ancient Greece and Rome.

Preface; Avant-propos; Part I. Ethics and Psychology of Hedonism: 1. Epicurean hedonism Gisela Striker; 2. Annicéris et les plaisirs psychiques: quelques préalables doxographiques André Laks; Part II. Atomism and Epicurean Psychology: 3. Epicurus on agency Julia Annas; 4. Democritus and Epicurus on sensible qualities David Furley; Part III. The Passions: 5. Poetry and the passions: two Stoic views Martha C. Nussbaum; 6. Seneca and psychological dualism Brad Inwood; 7. Actions and passions: affection, emotion and moral self-management in Galen's philosophical psychology James Hankinson; Part IV. Stoic Psychological Concepts: 8. De la 'nature phantastique' des animaux chez les Stoïciens Jean-Louis Labarrière; 9. Le concept de doxa des Stoïciens à Philon d'Alexandrie: essai d'étude diachronique Carlos Lévy; 10. Seneca on reason, rules and moral development Phillip Mitsis; 11. Chrysippus on psychophysical causality David Sedley; Bibliography; Subject index; Name index; Index