Distinguished Lecture
Tony Long
“The Stoic Zeus and the Values of Nature”
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 · 12:00pm Eastern
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Tony Long is Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Classics and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Abstract
The founders of Stoicism applied a range of terms to the world’s active principle, including god, nature, cause, reason, fate, and necessity. Long examines the conceptual relationship between these designations, especially that between nature and Zeus, and considers Chrysippus’s claim that Zeus and universal nature are the foundation of justice and ethical theory.
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Commentators
Tad Brennan, Cornell University
Gretchen Reydams-Schils, University of Notre Dame