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16Materialism and Ethics: Learning from EpicurusThe Philosopher 91 (2). 2003.A response to the claim that materialism leads to amoralism, aimed at a popular audience.
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48Epictetus: A. A. Long, Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life (review)The Classical Review 53 (01): 65-. 2003.
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43The Hymns of Proclus: R. M. Van den Berg: Proclus' hymns (review)The Classical Review 53 (01): 85-. 2003.
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13Byzantine Philosophy and Its Ancient Sources (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 12 (2): 341-344. 2004.
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58The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 42 (3): 337-338. 2004.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:The Cambridge Companion to the StoicsJohn SellarsBrad Inwood, editor. The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. ix + 438. Cloth, $70.00. Paper, $26.00.No doubt everyone will be familiar with the format and rationale of the Cambridge Companion series, each volume being designed to function as a "reference work for students and nonspecialists." Brad Inwood's Cambridge Companion t…Read more
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64Stoics and Cynics: M.-O. Goulet-Cazé: Les Kynica du stoïcisme (review)The Classical Review 55 (01): 69-. 2005.
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86StoicismAcumen Publishing. 2006.This book provides a lucid, comprehensive introduction to this great philosophical school.
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60Justus Lipsius On Constancy (edited book)Bristol Phoenix Press. 2006.This book makes available again a long out-of-print translation of a major sixteenth-century philosophical text. Lipsius' De Constantia (1584) is an important Humanist text and a key moment in the reception of Stoicism. A dialogue in two books, conceived as a philosophical consolation for those suffering through contemporary religious wars, it proved immensely popular in its day and formed the inspiration for what has become known as 'Neostoicism'. This movement advocated the revival of Stoic et…Read more
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75Justus Lipsius's De Constantia, A Stoic Spiritual ExercisePoetics Today 28 (3): 339-62. 2007.This essay offers an introduction to Justus Lipsius's dialogue De Constantia, first published in 1584. Although the dialogue bears a superficial similarity to philosophical works of consolation, I suggest that it should be approached as a spiritual exercise written by Lipsius primarily for his own benefit.
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143Stoic Cosmopolitanism and Zeno's RepublicHistory of Political Thought 28 (1): 1-29. 2007.Modern accounts of Stoic politics have attributed to Zeno the ideal of an isolated community of sages and to later Stoics such as Seneca a cosmopolitan utopia transcending all traditional States. By returning to the Cynic background to both Zeno's Republic and the Cosmopolitan tradition, this paper argues that the distance between the two is not as great as is often supposed. This account, it is argued, is more plausible than trying to offer a developmental explanation of the supposed transforma…Read more
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80Gilles Deleuze and the history of philosophyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 15 (3): 551-560. 2007.This article examines Gilles Deleuze's methodological approach to the history of philosophy. While Deleuze's readings of past philosophers may not stand up to the standards set by the scholarly history of philosophy, they may be approached more productively as a continuation of the approach developed by the ancient and medieval commentary tradition.
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64The stoic life: Emotions, duties, and fate - by Tad Brennan (review)Philosophical Books 49 (2): 145-147. 2008.
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28Review of Han Baltussen, Philosophy and Exegesis in Simplicius: The Methodology of a Commentator (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (5). 2009.
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50Epictetus: W.O. Stephens, Stoic Ethics. Epictetus and Happiness as Freedom (review)The Classical Review 59 (1): 79-. 2009.
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518Stoic ontology and Plato’s SophistBulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 107 185-203. 2010.Book synopsis: Plato is perhaps the most readable of all philosophers. Recent scholarship on Plato has focused attention on the dramatic and literary form through which Plato presents his philosophy, an integral part of that philosophy. The papers in this volume for the first time consider Aristotle and the Stoics as readers of Plato. That these successors were influenced by the thought of Plato is a commonplace: the ‘whole of western philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato’. Arising from I…Read more
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63Tough luckThe Philosophers' Magazine 55 (55): 72-76. 2011.The worst thing that can happen to us is to be blessed with a life of unending luxury, comfort, and wealth, for such a life would make one weak and lazy. But worst of all, the longer we experience a comfortable and easy life, the harder it will hit us when our luck fi nally changes, as it surely one day will.
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114Is God a Mindless Vegetable? Cudworth on Stoic TheologyIntellectual History Review 21 (2): 121-133. 2011.In the sixteenth century the Stoics were deemed friends of humanist Christians, but by the eighteenth century they were attacked as atheists. What happened in the intervening period? In the middle of this period falls Ralph Cudworth’s True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678), which contains a sustained analysis of Stoic theology. In Cudworth’s complex taxonomy Stoicism appears twice, both as a form of atheism and an example of imperfect theism. Whether the Stoics are theists or atheists h…Read more
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422Marcus Aurelius in Contemporary PhilosophyIn Marcel van Ackeren (ed.), A Companion to Marcus Aurelius, Wiley-blackwell. 2012.Chapter synopsis: This chapter contains sections titled: Modern Readers of the Meditations The 19th Century The 20th Century Rehabilitating Marcus Further Reading References.
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348The Meditations and the Ancient Art of LivingIn Marcel van Ackeren (ed.), A Companion to Marcus Aurelius, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 453-464. 2012.This chapter contains sections titled: Marcus' Project Socrates and the Stoic Art of Living Types of Philosophical Text Assimilation and Digestion Writing the Self Further Reading References.
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124Stoics Against Stoics In Cudworth's A Treatise of FreewillBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (5): 935-952. 2012.In his A Treatise of Freewill, Ralph Cudworth argues against Stoic determinism by drawing on what he takes to be other concepts found in Stoicism, notably the claim that some things are ?up to us? and that these things are the product of our choice. These concepts are central to the late Stoic Epictetus and it appears at first glance as if Cudworth is opposing late Stoic voluntarism against early Stoic determinism. This paper argues that in fact, despite his claim to be drawing on Stoic doctrine…Read more
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98Renaissance PhilosophyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (6): 1195-1204. 2012.British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Ahead of Print
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53The Stoic traditionIn Willemien Otten (ed.), The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, Oxford University Press. 2013.On Augustine's attitudes towards Stoicism and the way they have influenced the reception of both in Abelard, Petrarch, Lipsius, Senault, Pascal, and Malebranche.
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27Agostino Nifo ed. by Leen Spruit (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 51 (4): 680-681. 2013.
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37Standard Edition: Complete Works, Correspondence and Posthumous Writings (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (3): 613-616. 2013.No abstract
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62Seneca’s philosophical predecessors and contemporariesIn Gregor Damschen & A. Heil (eds.), Brill's Companion to Seneca, Brill. pp. 97-112. 2014.This chapter examines the philosophical context in which Seneca thought and wrote, drawing primarily on evidence within Seneca's works. It considers Seneca's immediate teachers, his debt to the Stoic tradition, other Greek philosophical influences, and other contemporary philosophers.
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54Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus, by John M. Cooper (review)Mind 123 (492): 1177-1180. 2014.
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57Stoic Fate in Justus Lipsius’s De Constantia and Physiologia StoicorumJournal of the History of Philosophy 52 (4): 653-674. 2014.In his De Constantia of 1584, Justus Lipsius examines the Stoic theory of fate, distancing himself from it by outlining four key points at which it should be modified. The modified theory is often presented as a distinctly Christianized form of Stoicism. Later, in his Physiologia Stoicorum of 1604, Lipsius revisits the Stoic theory, this time offering a more sympathetic reading, with the four modifications forgotten. It is widely assumed that Lipsius’s position shifted between these two works, p…Read more
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