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David Mihulka
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Posted - Dec 08 2008 :  10:04:01 AM  Show Profile
I remember reading something about the effects of Stoicism on the early Christian founders in the last chapter of Long. I was wondering if anyone can elaborate on this connection. It sounds interesting and applicable to modern thought.

Tom Trelogan
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Posted - Dec 08 2008 :  11:58:19 AM  Show Profile
There are a couple of books on this subject that are certainly worth looking at if you're really interested in the subject: Richard Sorabji's Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation and Marcia Colish's Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages: Stoicism in Christian Latin Thought Through the Sixth Century . You'd probably want to try to track them down via interlibrary loan. They're not readily available, and they're not cheap. There's a brief review of the Sorabji book that you can get by Googling the string:

Sorabji Stoic JSTOR

and another one here (available courtesy of UNC) and a brief review of the Colish book at the following address:

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_philosophy/toc/hph26.1.html

which, for some reason, I can't make into a link!
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David Mihulka
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Posted - Dec 08 2008 :  1:25:32 PM  Show Profile
Thanks for the links.
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