TY - BOOK ID - 32891739 TI - Gender and Sexuality in Stoic Philosophy PY - 2018 SN - 331953694X 3319536931 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Gender identity KW - Religious aspects. KW - Philosophy. KW - Feminist theory. KW - Sociology. KW - Sex (Psychology). KW - Gender expression. KW - Gender identity. KW - Feminism. KW - Gender Studies. KW - Religion and Gender. KW - Sex identity (Gender identity) KW - Sexual identity (Gender identity) KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Queer theory KW - Expression, Gender KW - Sex role KW - Psychology, Sexual KW - Sex KW - Sexual behavior, Psychology of KW - Sexual psychology KW - Sensuality KW - Social theory KW - Social sciences KW - Feminism KW - Feminist philosophy KW - Feminist sociology KW - Theory of feminism KW - Mental philosophy KW - Humanities KW - Psychological aspects KW - Philosophy KW - Gender identity-Religious aspect. KW - Gender identity—Religious aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32891739 AB - This book investigates the Ancient Stoic thinkers’ views on gender and sexuality. A detailed scrutiny of metaphysics, ethics and political philosophy reveals that the Stoic philosophers held an exceptionally equal view of men and women’s rational capacities. In its own time, Stoicism was frequently called ‘ the manly school’ of philosophy, but this volume shows that the Stoics would have also transformed many traditional notions of masculinity. Malin Grahn-Wilder compares the earlier philosophies of Plato and Aristotle to show that the Stoic position often stands out within Ancient philosophy as an exceptionally bold defense of women’s possibilities to achieve the highest form of wisdom and happiness. The work argues that the Stoic metaphysical notion of human being is based on strikingly egalitarian premises, and opens new perspectives to Stoic philosophy on the whole. ER -