Stoïcisme, filosofische trots en Spinoza
Het boek van Jon Miller, Spinoza and the Stoics. Cambridge University Press, dat voor sept. 2013 was aangekondigd, wordt inmiddels verwacht in juli 2014 te verschijnen [Cf. blog]. Het is weer verder vooruit geschoven naar maart 2015.
Dit
geeft mij gelegenheid om intussen op het volgende boek te wijzen,
waarvan de auteur veel verwacht van die komende publicatie van Jon
Miller. Brookes boek, door recensent Wyger R.E. Velema zeer gunstig
onthaald [PDF],
heeft wel geen apart hoofdstuk over Spinoza of het Spinozisme, maar
geeft vooral in het hoofdstuk "How the Stoics Became Atheists",
veel aandacht aan de ontwikkeling van het neo-stoïcisme in de 17e
en 18e eeuw, en daarbinnen veel aandacht voor - de kritiek op -
Spinoza, vooral van Cudworth en Buddeus in diens De Spinozismo
ante Spinozam.
Christopher Brooke, Philosophic Pride: Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau. Princeton University Press, 2012 - books.google
TOC
Augustine of Hippo
Justus Lipsius and the
PostMachiavellian Prince
Grotius Stoicism and Oikeiosis
From
Lipsius to Hobbes
The French Augustinians
From Hobbes to
Shaftesbury
How the Stoics Became Atheists
From Fénelon to
Hume
JeanJacques Rousseau
Epilogue
Philosophic Pride is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought. Spanning the period from Justus Lipsius's Politics in 1589 to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile in 1762, and concentrating on arguments originating from England, France, and the Netherlands, the book considers how political writers of the period engaged with the ideas of the Roman and Greek Stoics that they found in works by Cicero, Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. Christopher Brooke examines key texts in their historical context, paying special attention to the history of classical scholarship and the historiography of philosophy.
Brooke delves into the persisting tension between Stoicism and the tradition of Augustinian anti-Stoic criticism, which held Stoicism to be a philosophy for the proud who denied their fallen condition. Concentrating on arguments in moral psychology surrounding the foundations of human sociability and self-love, Philosophic Pride details how the engagement with Roman Stoicism shaped early modern political philosophy and offers significant new interpretations of Lipsius and Rousseau together with fresh perspectives on the political thought of Hugo Grotius and Thomas Hobbes.
Philosophic Pride shows how the legacy of the Stoics played a vital role in European intellectual life in the early modern era.
