DA3701 Seminar in Stoic Ethics

This seminar offers an introduction to Stoic ethical thought. Stoicism was an influential philosophical system that developed in the Western world between the Hellenistic period (which is generally said to begin with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE), and the Imperial Roman period into the mid to late second century CE. A group of students as practically minded as yourselves might reasonably ask the question: “So what? What does any of this have to do with me? What possible value can I gain from studying a body of thought that 1) has not been systematically observed for over the past eighteen hundred years and 2) was grounded in a cosmology and a set of physical and metaphysical beliefs that have long since been supplanted by the progress of science?” Prerequisites: None.

Lecture Hours

4

Lab Hours

0