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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.

Political science --- Philosophy --- History. --- Stoïcisme --- Philosophie politique --- Influence --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Social ethics --- History of philosophy --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Influence. --- Adam and Eve. --- Anthony Ashley Cooper. --- Augustine of Hippo. --- Augustinian. --- Augustinianism. --- Augustinus. --- Benedict Spinoza. --- Bernard Mandeville. --- Blaise Pascal. --- Cambridge Platonists. --- Christianity. --- Ciceronian Stoicism. --- City of God. --- Corneille Jansen. --- David Hume. --- De Constantia. --- De Jure Belli ac Pacis. --- Deism. --- Emile. --- Epictetus. --- Epicureanism. --- Francis Hutcheson. --- Franois de Salignac. --- Franois duc de La Rochefoucauld. --- French Augustinians. --- German idealist philosophy. --- Greek Stoics. --- Hobbism. --- Hugo Grotius. --- Jean-Franois Senault. --- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. --- Johann Franz Buddeus. --- Joseph Butler. --- Justis Lipsius. --- Justus Lipsius. --- Latitudinarians. --- Marcus Aurelius. --- Marxism. --- Michel de Montaigne. --- Neostoicism. --- Niccol Machiavelli. --- Nicolas Malebranche. --- Pierre Bayle. --- Politica. --- Ralph Cudworth. --- Richard Cumberland. --- Roman Stoics. --- Samuel Parker. --- Second Discourse. --- Spinozism. --- Stoic continuity. --- Stoic ethics. --- Stoic moral psychology. --- Stoic philosophy. --- Stoicism. --- Tacitus. --- Thomas Hobbes. --- William Shakespeare. --- amour-propre. --- anti-Stoicism. --- apatheia. --- appetitus societatis. --- atheism. --- classical political economy. --- classical scholarship. --- historical connections. --- human sociability. --- moral psychology. --- natural law. --- natural rights tradition. --- oikeiosis. --- passionlessness. --- philosophical critique. --- political action. --- political thought. --- political writers. --- politics. --- post-Machiavellian prince. --- radical French politics. --- religion. --- self-liking. --- self-love.