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Tad Brennan

Disciplines:
philosophy
ancient philosophy
stoicism
higher education/cornell

Summary

American philosopher at Cornell who is a leading scholar of Stoic philosophy — whose The Stoic Life provides the most accessible and philosophically rigorous account of Stoic ethics and psychology available in English.

Core Contribution

Provides the clearest contemporary account of Stoic psychology — the Stoic theory of the passions (as false value judgments), the doctrine of preferred indifferents, and the sage ideal — making Stoic ethics precisely available to contemporary philosophical discussion.

Notable Works & Achievements

The Stoic Life

Historical Influences

Stoic tradition

Intellectual Lineage

Cornell University

Contemporaries & Peers

Brad Inwood Julia Annas

Minds Influenced

Stoic scholarship Jonathan Bi

Intellectual Posterity

The Stoic Life Stoic scholarship

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