Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Emotion and norms for emotion -- science of the mind -- psychic material -- central directive faculty -- Thought, belief, and action -- Affective events -- pathetic syllogism -- Emotions and ascriptions of value -- Appropriateness -- Evaluations and their objects -- stoic ethical stance -- Eupathic responses -- Classification by genus -- Classification by species -- Some remaining questions -- Vigor and responsibility -- Rollability -- Overriding impulses -- Medea and Odysseus -- Plato and Platonists -- Posidonian objections -- Freedom -- Feelings without assent -- Beginnings and "bitings" at Athens -- Senecan Account -- Alexandrian Propatheiai -- stoic essential -- Brutishness and insanity -- Orestes and the Phantastikon -- Melancholic loss of virtue -- Fluttery ignorance -- Emotions as causes -- Brutishness -- Seneca's three movements --
Traits of character -- Scalar conditions of mind -- Fondnesses and aversions -- Proclivities -- Habitudes of the wise -- development of character -- Empiricism and corruption -- twofold cause -- Cicero's Hall of Mirrors -- establishment of traits -- Autonomy and luck -- City of friends and lovers -- Concern for others -- Proper friendship and the wise community -- Friendship and self-sufficiency -- Optimistic love -- Ordinary affections -- tears of Alcibiades -- Wisdom and remorse -- Strategies for consolation -- status of premise 2 -- Progressor-pain and moral shame -- Apatheia revisited -- Appendix : The status of confidence in stoic classifications -- List of abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index locorum -- General index.
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