René Brouwer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4125091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | René Brouwer |
| GIVEN NAMES | René |
| FAMILY NAME | Brouwer |
| SIGNATURE | BROUWER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Fate, Providence and Free Will
"This volume, edited by René Brouwer and Emmanuele Vimercati, deals with the debate about fate, providence and free will in the early Imperial age. This debate is rekindled in the 1st century CE during emperor Augustus' rule and ends in the 3rd century CE with Plotinus and Origen, when the different positions in the debate were more or less fully developed. The book aims to show how in this period the notions of fate, providence and freedom were …
Stoics and the State
Jula Wildberger, (2018) Stoics and the State: Theory – Practice – Context. Staatsverständnisse, 105. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. 263 pages, €39,00, ISBN: 9783848728435 (pbk
The Stoics on Luck
This chapter discusses “luck” as a central topic in Stoicism, from its early beginnings in the 3rd century bce with Zeno of Citium, the founder of the school, to Marcus Aurelius, the last major self-proclaimed Stoic in antiquity. According to the Stoics, from the point of view of the perfectly rational person, luck in its conventional sense is thus but an illusion: any event ordinarily ascribed to luck can in the end be explained in terms of reas…
Aristotle’s Practical Philosophy
Stoic Sympathy
In this chapter the naturalist origins of sympathy are discussed, with sympathy first used to connote the relation between the human body and soul. The Stoics appear to have expanded this body-and-soul relationship, giving sympathy its broadest possible scope, making it into a feature of the natural world. According to the Stoics, it is because of the soul that pervades all matter that the world itself and everything in it are in a state of inter…
Ulpian’s appeal to nature
In this paper I argue that against the political and perhaps even religiously motivated background of the Constitutio Antoniniana , in order to further enhance the appeal of Roman law, Ulpian seeks to connect law and nature by using Stoic terminology. However, his usage of this terminology is radically distinct from the perfectionist Stoic approach
The Stoic Sage
After Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics, from the third century BCE onwards, developed the third great classical conception of wisdom. This book offers a reconstruction of this pivotal notion in Stoicism, starting out from the two extant Stoic definitions, 'knowledge of human and divine matters' and 'fitting expertise'. It focuses not only on the question of what they understood by wisdom, but also on how wisdom can be achieved, how difficult it is…
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The Stoic Sage
After Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics, from the third century BCE onwards, developed the third great classical conception of wisdom. This book offers a reconstruction of this pivotal notion in Stoicism, starting out from the two extant Stoic definitions, 'knowledge of human and divine matters' and 'fitting expertise'. It focuses not only on the question of what they understood by wisdom, but also on how wisdom can be achieved, how difficult it is…
Stoic Sympathy
In this chapter the naturalist origins of sympathy are discussed, with sympathy first used to connote the relation between the human body and soul. The Stoics appear to have expanded this body-and-soul relationship, giving sympathy its broadest possible scope, making it into a feature of the natural world. According to the Stoics, it is because of the soul that pervades all matter that the world itself and everything in it are in a state of inter…
Ulpian’s appeal to nature
In this paper I argue that against the political and perhaps even religiously motivated background of the Constitutio Antoniniana , in order to further enhance the appeal of Roman law, Ulpian seeks to connect law and nature by using Stoic terminology. However, his usage of this terminology is radically distinct from the perfectionist Stoic approach
Aristotle’s Practical Philosophy
The Stoics on Luck
This chapter discusses “luck” as a central topic in Stoicism, from its early beginnings in the 3rd century bce with Zeno of Citium, the founder of the school, to Marcus Aurelius, the last major self-proclaimed Stoic in antiquity. According to the Stoics, from the point of view of the perfectly rational person, luck in its conventional sense is thus but an illusion: any event ordinarily ascribed to luck can in the end be explained in terms of reas…
Fate, Providence and Free Will
"This volume, edited by René Brouwer and Emmanuele Vimercati, deals with the debate about fate, providence and free will in the early Imperial age. This debate is rekindled in the 1st century CE during emperor Augustus' rule and ends in the 3rd century CE with Plotinus and Origen, when the different positions in the debate were more or less fully developed. The book aims to show how in this period the notions of fate, providence and freedom were …
Stoics and the State
Jula Wildberger, (2018) Stoics and the State: Theory – Practice – Context. Staatsverständnisse, 105. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. 263 pages, €39,00, ISBN: 9783848728435 (pbk
Philosophy (6 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (2 works) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (2 works) · Stoicism (2 works) · Ancient Greek (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work)