Stoics and Epicureans
Table of Contents
1. Overview: the Hellenistic schools
2. Overview: Epicurean physics
2.1 Problems of atomic motion: Epicurus versus Aristotle on time, space and indivisibility
2.2 Epicurus and the mind-body problem
3. Overview: Stoic physics
3.1 Did the Stoics locate two material bodies in the same place everywhere?
3.2 Stoic views on causation and fatalism
4. Overview: Material gods
4.1 The Stoic doctrine of eternal recurrence
4.2 Epicurean cosmology without teleology
5. Overview: Epicurean Epistemology
5.1 What does 'All perceptions are true' mean?
5.2 Is Skepticism self-refuting? Can the skeptic live his skepticism?
6. Overview: Stoic Epistemology
6.1 The cognitive impression and skeptical objections
6.2 The identity of indiscernibles and the puzzle of Dion and Theon
7. Overview: Epicurean ethical theory
7.1 The arguments for hedonism
7.2 Is the fear of death rational?
8. Overview: Stoic ethical theory
8.1 Is virtue necessary and sufficient for happiness?
8.2 The Stoic view on emotions