Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Contents
PART ONE The Background
1. The Medical and Scientific Background
PART TWO The Stoics
2. The Soul and the Mind
3. Perceiving and Thinking
4. Action
5. The Emotions
PART THREE The Epicureans
6. Atomism and Agents
7. Perception and Thought
8. Action and Freedom of Action
9. Emotions and Feelings
Conclusion
Bibliography
General Index
Index Locorum

About the Author

Julia E. Annas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. She is the author, with Jonathan Barnes, of The Modes of Scepticism (1985).

Reviews

"In her systematic examination of Stoic and Epicurean theories of mind, Julia Annas seeks to demonstrate the innovative nature of their views. According to Annas' exactingly lucid book, the Stoic and Epicurean accounts are philosophically worthy and, properly construed, the first genuine theories of mind. . . . Annas carefully and sympathetically attends to the arguments that the Stoics and Epicureans construct, while indicating their defects. As a result, we gain a sense of the enormous attraction of their reasoned, philosophical positions. . . . A model of philosophical scholarship about Hellenistic antiquity."--Glenn Lesses, "Canadian Philosophical Review