Barlaam of Seminara on Stoic Ethics: Text, Translation, and Interpretative Essays

Cover
Title
Preface
Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
	1. Barlaam of Seminara
		Southern Italy
		Constantinople
		Debates with Dominicans
		The Hesychast Controversy
		Diplomacy and Expulsion
		Naples and Avignon
		Gerace
	2. The Ethica secundum Stoicos
		The Text of ESS
		Authorship
		Sources
		The Plan of the Work
I. Text and Translation
	Note on the Text
	Table of Chapter Headings
	Text
	Translation
II. Interpretative Essays
	The Role of Bodily and External Goods for Happiness in Book 1 (Charles R. Hogg Jr.)
		1. Introduction
		2. Aristotle on External Goods and Happiness
		3. Aristotle on Virtue, Emotions, and External Goods
		4. Aristotle: Some Critical Comments
		5. Barlaam on External Goods and Happiness
		6. The Stoic Definition is Demonstrated (ESS 1.2–14)
		7. The Peripatetic Definition is Refuted (ESS 1.15–25)
		8. The Place of Advantages in the Happy Life (ESS 1.26–29)
		9. Conclusion: Some Critical Thoughts
	The Stoic Theory of Emotions in Book 2 (John Sellars)
		1. The Stoic Soul (ESS 2.1)
		2. Three Mental Traits (ESS 2.2)
		3. Varieties of Will (ESS 2.3–4)
		4. An Eightfold Division of Mental States (ESS 2.5–9)
		5. The Standard Stoic Account of Emotions (ESS 2.10–11)
		6. Two Fourfold Accounts Combined (ESS 2.11)
		7. Constantia and εὐπάθειαι (ESS 2.12)
		8. The Full Account (ESS 2.13)
		9. Comments on Theophrastus (ESS 2.13–14)
		10. Overcoming Emotional Disturbances (ESS 2.15–16)
	The Reception of Stoic Ethics in the Middle Ages (John Sellars)
		1. Stoic Ethics in Late Antiquity
		2. Stoicism in Byzantium
		3. The Latin Middle Ages
		4. The Twelfth Century: Peter Abelard and William of Conches
		5. The Thirteenth Century: Roger Bacon and Thomas Aquinas
		6. The Fourteenth Century: Jean Buridan
		7. Petrarch and Stoic Ethics
Bibliography
Indexes
	Index of Greek and Latin Words
	Index of Passages
	Index of Subjects and Names