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"This English translation of On Anger provides a newly read and supplemented Greek text of one of the most important "Herculaneum papyri," the only collection of literary texts to survive the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE. On Anger is our sole evidence for the Epicurean view of what constitutes natural and praiseworthy anger, as distinguished from unnatural pleasure in vengeance and cruelty for their own sake, a view that can be shown to have influenced Latin authors like Cicero, Horace and Virgil"--

This study tries to reconstruct the dispute over rhetoric in Hellenistic thought, by using two main interrelated axes. Firstly, it delineates the exact milieu in which this dispute took place, including locations, dates and persons. Secondly, five main arguments used against rhetoric have been reconstructed, all of which concentrate on rhetoric's claim to be considered an art.

I. Homer -- II. Hesiod, Solon, Heraclitus. Discontent promotes the growth of political thought : the people and the individual -- III. The new freedom. Equality or order? Herodotus and Aeschylus -- IV. Protagoras, the first great political thinker : man's responsibility. Other pre-Socratics. Democritus. The background of Socrates -- V. Antiphon and others. The right of the stronger and the future of the polis. Socrates, Euripides -- VI. Thucydides and statesmen of his time -- VII. The aftermath of war. Federal and monarchical ideas. Plato's early life, Crito, Gorgias, the academy. Isocrates -- VIII. Plato's Republic -- IX. Xenophon. Plato's Politicus, or. Statesman. Plato and Syracuse. -- X. Plato's Laws -- XI. Aristotle -- XII. Alexander the Great and the effect of his conquests. Hellenistic monarchy and Hellenistic cities. Philosophical schools, old and new, and their relation to politeia -- XIII. Greek political thought at Rome. Polybius, Panaetius, Posidonius, Cicero, Philodemus, Lucretius -- XIV. Hellenistic monarchy again. Jewish influences. Monarchical writings of obscure date and origin. Philo of Alexandria -- XV. The early Roman Empire.

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Another Word on Foucault's Final Words -- Notes -- References -- Part One Philosophical Practices, Philosophy as Practice -- 1 Foucault's Reinvention of Philosophy as a Way of Life: Genealogy as a Spiritual Exercise -- Philosophical Heroism -- Foucault's Reinvention of Philosophy as a Way of Life -- Genealogy as a Spiritual Exercise -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 Self or Cosmos: Foucault versus Hadot -- Foucault's Late Work and its Debt to Hadot -- Hadot's Criticisms of Foucault -- Analysis of Hadot's Criticisms -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 The Great Cycle of the World: Foucault and Hadot on the Cosmic Perspective and the Care of the Self -- Hadot's Critique -- Government, Life, Self -- Foucault's "Cybernetics" -- Cosmos and Experience in Hadot -- Foucault on the Knowledge of Nature and the Care of the Self -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part Two Care of the Self, Care of Others -- 4 Foucault According to Stiegler: Technics of the Self -- Between Subjectivation and Subjection -- The Technicization of Subjectivation -- Between the Transcendental and the Empirical -- Stiegler's Politics of Care -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Notes Towards a Critical History of Musicalities: Philodemus on the Use of Musical Pleasures and the Care of the Self -- The Hupomnēmata and the "Moral Problematization" of "Musical" Pleasures -- A "Moral Sociology" of Music versus an "Anthropology of Musical Moralities" -- Notes -- References -- 6 Foucault's Ultimate Technology1 -- "We Should Not Let Ourselves Be Worried About the Future" -- A Hierarchy Based on Perception of Temporality -- Praemeditatio Malorum -- Meditatio Mortis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References.