Passions and Moral Progress in Greco-Roman Thought

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An Introduction Part 1: Philosophy Aristotle and Theophrastus on the Emotions, William W Fortenbaugh. The Problem of the Passions in Cynicism, David E Aune. The Passions in Neopythagorean Writings, Johan C Thom. 'Be Angry and Sin Not: Philodemus versus the Stoics on Natural Bites and Natural Emotions, David Armstrong. Early Roman Empire Stoics, Edgar M Krentz. Plutarch on Moral Progress, Richard A Wright. Part 2: Philosophy and Literature Passion and Progress in Ovid's Metamorphoses, S Georgia Nugent. The Lassions in Galen and the Novels of Chariton and Xenophon, Loveday C A Alexander. Part 3: Philosophy and Religion Philo of Alexandria on the Rational and Irrational Emotions, David Winston. Passions in the Pauline Epistles: The Current State of Research, David Charles Aune. The Logic of Action in Paul: How Does He Differ from the Moral Philosophers on Spiritual and Moral Progression and Regression?, Troels Engberg-Pedersen. Moral Progress and Divine Power in Seneca and Paul, James Ware. Moral Pathology: Passions, Progress and Protreptic in Clement of Alexandria, L Michael White. Bibliography. Index .