A A Long
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 461595 |
|---|---|
| NOME | A A Long |
| PRENOMES | A A |
| SOBRENOME | Long |
| ASSINATURA | LONG A A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7447-7237 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 114 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 99 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 110 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1963 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Cast of Characters
This chapter discusses the chronology and scope of Hellenistic philosophy, as embodied in its three major schools: the Garden, the Stoa, and the Academy. It situates these schools in their historical and social contexts and discusses some figures who had a special formative influence on them, including Pyrrho of Elis. It then introduces the most distinctive leaders and exponents of each of the three schools, offering biographical overviews of Epi…
Beyond xier
Neopronouns are new pronouns created to address perceived gaps in the standard pronoun system. In the German language, neopronouns have neither stabilized around norms of usage nor has any singular neopronoun risen to prominence over others. However, many sources available to educators and researchers in a US context have foregrounded the neopronoun xier based on a small number of resources. To address this possible misrepresentation in the curre…
Dialectic and the Stoic Sage
Question of Eclecticism
Finding Oneself in Greek Philosophy
The human capacity to view the world objectively first came to light in the speculations of the early change “early” to “earliest” Greek cosmologists. How we understand that history changes because we change. It invites us, as post-Cartesians, to ask how we position ourselves both as subjective individuals and as physical participants in the world’s natural processes. Heraclitus is the key figure to study concerning the integration of these two p…
Selfhood and Rationality in Ancient Greek Philosophy
This book is a collection of fourteen essays on the themes of selfhood and rationality in ancient Greek philosophy. The discussion ranges over seven centuries of innovative thought, starting with Heraclitus' injunction to listen to the cosmic logos, and concluding with Plotinus' criticism of those who make embodiment essential to human identity. For the Greek philosophers the notion of a rational self was bound up with questions about divinity an…
Seneca
Antiquity Revisited
A discussion on antiquity with Anthony A. Long, one of the most distinguished scholars in the field of ancient philosophy, would be engaging in any case. All the more so, since his two recently published works, Greek Models of Mind and Self (2015) and How to be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life (2018), provide the opportunity to revisit key issues of ancient philosophy. The former is a lively and challenging work that starts with the Homer…
Theophrastus and the Stoa 1
This chapter presents a case that provides interaction between the Zenonian Stoa and Theophrastus, and his positive influence on Stoicism in its earliest years, were probably minimal. It attempts to motivate the case by considerations which concern the Stoa rather than Theophrastus. The Hellenistic schools where Socrates was thoroughly at home during Theophrastus’ later life were the newly established Stoa and the Academy. To judge by the titles …
CHAPTER THREE. Stoic Readings of Homer
Stoic Readings of Homer
How to Be Free
Aëtius, Stoic Physics, and Zeno
The purpose of this paper is a comparative assessment of Aëtius’s treatment of Stoic physics, focusing on a selection of his lemmata concerning central doctrines of the school. After outlining the general scope of his Stoic doxography and comparing it with material in Diogenes Laertius and Arius Didymus, I turn to Aëtius’s accounts of Stoic cosmology and theology. The accuracy of his detailed report on the attributes of Stoic god is confirmed by …
Arius Didymus and the Exposition of Stoic Ethics
In this chapter, the author assumes that Arius is the main source for both ethical sections in Stobaeus, together with the preliminary material, and he will suggest a hypothesis to reconcile the discrepancies without abandoning Arius or carving him up into two or more people. Any methodological contribution of his own is likely to have consisted in the framework he adopts for presenting the first part of his Stoic section. For that, as will be se…
Letters on Ethics
Greek Models of Mind and Self
A. A. Long's study of Greek notions of mind and human selfhood is anchored in questions of universal interest. What happens to us when we die? How is the mind or soul related to the body? Are we responsible for our own happiness? Can we achieve autonomy? Long shows that Greek thinkers' modeling of the mind gave us metaphors that we still live by.
Letters on Ethics
Heraclitus on Measure and the Explicit Emergence of Rationality
The eclectic Pythagoreanism of Alexander Polyhistor
Presocratics
A Free WillOrigins of the Notion in Ancient Thought
Where does the notion of free will come from? How and when did it develop, and what did that development involve? In this book's account of the history of this idea, the notion of a free will emerged from powerful assumptions about the relation between divine providence, correctness of individual choice, and self-enslavement due to incorrect choice. Anchoring the discussion in Stoicism, the book begins with Aristotle—who, it argues, had no notion…
Translations of the principal sources with philosophical commentary
Preface Introduction Part I. Early Pyrrhonism Part II. Epicureanism Section 1. Physics Section 2. Epistemology Section 3. Ethics Part III. Stoicism Section 4. Ontology Section 5. Logic and Semantics Section 6. Epistemology: Stoics and Academics Section 7. Physics Section 8. Ethics Part IV. The Academics Part V. The Pyrrhonist Revival Indexes.
The Hellenistic Philosophers
Heraclitus and Stoicism
Theophrastus of Eresus
This series in the field of classics grew out of Project Theophrastus, an international undertaking whose goal is to collect, edit, and comment on the fragments of Theophrastus, Greek philosopher, Aristotle's pupil and second head of the Peripatetic School. Contributions are by international experts, and each volume will have a particular focus. Volume I is devoted to Arius Didymus, court philosopher to Caesar Augustus and author of an extensive …
Images and Ideologies
This volume captures the individuality, the national and personal identity, the cultural exchange, and the self-consciousness that have long been sensed as peculiarly potent in the Hellenistic world. The fields of history, literature, art, philosophy, and religion are each presented using the format of two essays followed by a response. Conveying the direction and focus of Hellenistic learning, eighteen leading scholars discuss issues of liberty …
Language and Thought in Sophocles. A Study of Abstract Nouns and Poetic Technique
Socrates in Hellenistic Philosophy
In what sense did the Hellenistic philosophers see themselves as the heirs or critics of Socrates? Was Socrates, in their view, a philosopher on whom Plato was the decisive authority? What doctrines or strategies of Socrates were thoroughly alive in this period? These are the principal questions I shall be asking in this paper, particularly the third. To introduce them, and to set the scene, I begin with some general points, starting from two pas…
The Hellenistic Philosophers
This comprehensive sourcebook makes available in the original Latin and Greek the principal extant texts required for the study of the Stoic, Epicurean and sceptical schools of philosophy. The material is organised by schools, and within each school topics are treated thematically. The volume presents the same texts (with some additional passages) as are translated in The Hellenistic Philosophers, Volume 1. The authors provide their own critical …
Timon of Phlius
The twentieth century has been so begrudging to Timon of Phlius that he could be forgiven for identifying himself with his misanthropic namesake. About a hundred and fifty of his ‘glänzenden Sillen’ (the phrase is Wilamowitz's) survive, but in Albin Lesky's Geschichte der griechischen Literatur Timon gets only a third of the space devoted to Anaximander from whom we possess one possible sentence. Serious work on Timon largely came to a stop with …
Thinking and Sense-Perception in Empedocles
There is more evidence for Empedocles than for any early Greek philosopher before Democritus, yet the details of his philosophy remain controversial and often hopelessly obscure. Jaeger called Empedocles a ‘philosophical centaur’, which aptly sums up the seeming disparity between the and the There is no agreement about the famous simile to illustrate respiration, generally known as the Clepsydra, and the stages and nature of the cosmic cycle cont…
The concept of the cosmopolitan in Greek & Roman thought
Nouns and Poetic Technique” (1968), “Stoic Studies” (1996), and “Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life” (2002). He has edited “Problems in Stoicism” (1996), “The Question of ‘Eclecticism’: Studies in Later Greek Philosophy” (with J. M. Dillon, 1988), and “The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy” (1999). He is a Corresponding Fellow of the Brit
Soul and Body in Stoicism
What a modern philosopher might call problems of the self and problems of personal identity take the form, in Greek philosophy, of questions about the human ivXy and its relation to the body. In this paper I propose to explore some of the ways in which the early Stoics approached such questions. The scholarly literature has not neglected the Stoic concept of 4vx , but most of the discussions have focussed upon detailed questions concerning the so…
The Stoic Concept of Evil
The Stoic Concept of Evil Get access A. A. Long A. A. Long University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 18, Issue 73, October 1968, Pages 329–343, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217794 Published: 01 October 1968
Seneca
Ancient Philosophy's Hardest Question
Research Article| May 01 2001 Ancient Philosophy's Hardest Question: What to Make of Oneself? Anthony A. Long Anthony A. Long Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (2001) 74 (1): 19–36. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2001.74.1.19 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon …
Stoic Philosophers on Persons, Property-Ownership and Community
STOIC PHILOSOPHERS ON PERSONS, PROPERTY‐OWNERSHIP AND COMMUNITY A. A. LONG A. A. LONG University of California at Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 41, Issue Supplement_68, January 1997, Pages 13–31, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1997.tb02260.x Published: 22 February 2011
Chance and natural law in Epicureanism
When Epicurus discharged the gods from running the world he gave new fuel to a controversy which had been raging off and on for the past hundred years and which was to continue, at least as fiercely, into the Christian era. In preferring atoms and void to gods as ultimate causes of all natural phenomena, Epicurus knew perfectly well that he was entering an arena in which Plato and Aristotle had already done battle against the mechanistic explanat…
Aristotle's Legacy to Stoic Ethics
Journal Article ARISTOTLE'S LEGACY TO STOIC ETHICS Get access A. A. Long A. A. Long University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 15, Issue 1, December 1968, Pages 72–85, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1968.tb00064.x Published: 12 March 2010
Carneades and the Stoic telos1
The Principles of Parmenides' Cosmogony1
THE SIGNIFICANCE claimed by Parmenides for the cosmogony which forms the second half of his poem continues to be highly controversial. The interpretations offered by Owen and Chalmers, to nanme two recent criticisms, are so wi(iely divergent that one might despair of arriving at any measure of agreement.2 But since the significance of The Way of Truth must itself remain in some doubt until the status of the cosmogony is determined, further examin…
Abstract Terminology in Sophocles, Some Uses of -Sis Nouns
Die Offenbarung des Parmenides und die Menschliche Welt
Book Reviews Die Offenbarung des Parmenides und die Menschliche Welt. By J. Mansfeld (Assen : Van Gorcum. 1964. Pp. 285. Price not stated). A. A. Long A. A. Long Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 64, July 1966, Pages 269–270, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218470 Published: 01 July 1966
Thinking and Sense-Perception in Empedocles
There is more evidence for Empedocles than for any early Greek philosopher before Democritus, yet the details of his philosophy remain controversial and often hopelessly obscure. Jaeger called Empedocles a ‘philosophical centaur’, which aptly sums up the seeming disparity between the and the There is no agreement about the famous simile to illustrate respiration, generally known as the Clepsydra, and the stages and nature of the cosmic cycle cont…
Carneades and the Stoic telos1
The Meaning of Stoicism
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Meaning of Stoicism. By Ludwig Edelstein. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U.P. for Oberlin College; London: Oxford University Press. 1966. Pp. xii + 108. Price 21s). A. A. Long A. A. Long Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 17, Issue 69, October 1967, Pages 358–359, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217458 Published: 01 October 1967
The Giants of Pre-Sophistic Greek Philosophy
Book Reviews Get access The Giants of Pre-Sophistic Greek Philosophy: An attempt to reconstruct their thoughts. By Felix M. Cleve. 2 vols. (The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff. 1965. Pp. xi + 580 + xii. Price Gld. 54). A. A. Long A. A. Long Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 17, Issue 68, July 1967, Pages 267–268, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218164 Published: 01 July 1967
Aristotle's Legacy to Stoic Ethics
Journal Article ARISTOTLE'S LEGACY TO STOIC ETHICS Get access A. A. Long A. A. Long University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 15, Issue 1, December 1968, Pages 72–85, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1968.tb00064.x Published: 12 March 2010
Language and Thought in Sophocles. A Study of Abstract Nouns and Poetic Technique
The Stoic Concept of Evil
The Stoic Concept of Evil Get access A. A. Long A. A. Long University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 18, Issue 73, October 1968, Pages 329–343, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217794 Published: 01 October 1968
Language and Thought in Sophocles
Der Ursprung der Griechischen Philosophie
Plotinus
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Plotinus: The Road to Reality. By J. M. Rist. ( Cambridge University Press, 1967. Pp. vii + 280. Price 50s) A. A. Long A. A. Long Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 74, January 1969, Pages 80–81, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218193 Published: 01 January 1969
Twentieth Century Interpretations of Oedipus Rex. A Collection of Critical Essays
Stoic Determinism and Alexander of Aphrodisias De Fato (i-xiv)
VI—The Logical Basis of Stoic Ethics
Journal Article VI—The Logical Basis of Stoic Ethics Get access A. A. Long A. A. Long Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 71, Issue 1, 1 June 1971, Pages 85–104, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristotelian/71.1.85 Published: 09 September 2015
Aisthesis, Prolepsis and Linguistic Theory in Epicurus
Journal Article AISTHESIS, PROLEPSIS AND LINGUISTIC THEORY IN EPICURUS Get access A. A. Long A. A. Long University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 18, Issue 1, December 1971, Pages 114–133, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1971.tb00115.x Published: 12 March 2010
Problems in Stoicism
Philosophia. Part 1. Studies in Greek Philosophy
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Philosophia. Part 1. Studies in Greek Philosophy. By C. J. De Vogel. (Assen: Van Gorcum. 1970. Pp. x + 451. Price Hfl. 49) A. A. Long A. A. Long Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 22, Issue 89, October 1972, Pages 361–362, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218314 Published: 01 October 1972
Problems in Stoicism
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Problems in Stoicism. Edited by A. A. Long. (London: The Athlone Press. 1971. Pp. vii + 257. Price £4.00) Pamela M. Huby Pamela M. Huby Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 22, Issue 88, July 1972, Pages 267–268, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218237 Published: 01 July 1972
Hellenistic Philosophy. Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics
Hellenistic Philosophy
Hellenistic Philosophy
Hellenistic Philosophy (Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics)
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Hellenistic Philosophy (Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics). By A. A. Long (Classical Life and Letters). (London: Duckworth. 1974. Pp. x + 262. Price £4.95.) I.G. Kidd I.G. Kidd Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 103, April 1976, Pages 169–171, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219139 Published: 01 April 1976
Chance and natural law in Epicureanism
When Epicurus discharged the gods from running the world he gave new fuel to a controversy which had been raging off and on for the past hundred years and which was to continue, at least as fiercely, into the Christian era. In preferring atoms and void to gods as ultimate causes of all natural phenomena, Epicurus knew perfectly well that he was entering an arena in which Plato and Aristotle had already done battle against the mechanistic explanat…
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