Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-272) and indexes.
Contents:
'Ethics', 'philosophy' and philosophia. The history and internal geography of philosophia ; The point and balance of philosophia: Imperial period perceptions ; The 'dominance' of ethnics ; Authority and division ; Philosophia in the community ; Who qualifies? -- Perfection and progress. Perfection: ideal states of the person ; Lives and progress ; Conclusion -- The passions. Background ; Emotion and its control in the Imperial period ; Conclusion: continuity and change -- Self, person and individual. The soul and the real person ; Programmes of self-discovery? ; The self in therapeutic advice ; The self and the will? ; Afterword -- Self and others. The Stoics ; Peripatetics, Platonists, Epicureans and Cynics ; Special issues ; Conclusion -- Politics 1: Constitutions and the ruler ; The political background to Imperial period theorizing ; Constitutions -- Politics 2: Good communities. Dio on the Black Sea ; Harmony and order ; Collective moral character ; Sanctions: law, punishment and instruction ; Constituents of the community -- Politics 3: Philosophia in politics and the community. Entertainment, leisure and responsibility ; Philosophoi in formal politics ; Conclusions -- Philosophia and the mainstream. Politics ; A more general lack of alignment? ; The paradox of an educational setting ; An uncertain status? ; Conclusion -- Appendix: Bio-bibliographies
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