John Sellars
Stoic cosmopolitanism and Zeno's republic
Sellars, John
Authors
Abstract
Modern accounts of Stoic politics have attributed to Zeno the ideal of an isolated community of sages and to later Stoics such as Seneca a cosmopolitan utopia transcending all traditional States. By returning to the Cynic background to both Zeno's Republic and the Cosmopolitan tradition, this paper argues that the distance between the two is not as great as is often supposed. This account, it is argued, is more plausible than trying to offer a developmental explanation of the supposed transformation in Stoic political thought from isolated community to cosmopolitan utopia.
Journal Article Type | Article |
---|---|
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2007 |
Journal | History of Political Thought |
Print ISSN | 0143-781X |
Publisher | Imprint Academic |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 28 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 1-29 |
Keywords | stoic, cosmopolitanism, Zeno |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1034409 |
Publisher URL | http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/hpt/2007/00000028/00000001/art00001;jsessionid=2hp3a879iz0p.alexandra |
Downloadable Citations
About UWE Bristol Research Repository
Administrator e-mail: repository@uwe.ac.uk
This application uses the following open-source libraries:
SheetJS Community Edition
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
PDF.js
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
Font Awesome
SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Powered by Worktribe © 2024
Advanced Search