The Spiritual Dimension of Stoic Ascesis

Kurt W Lampe

The Spiritual Dimension of Stoic Ascesis

Department of Classics & Ancient History

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This chapter aims to develop a language for describing and appreciating the 'spiritual' dimension of Stoic ethics of self-cultivation. Stoic 'spirituality' has frequently made researchers uncomfortable. I begin with the argument that this should be recognized and set aside. I then spend most of the article trying to 'take spirituality seriously' by borrowing frames of analysis from recent anthropology and philosophy of religion, which allow us to get beyond 'common sense' and say something nuanced and meaningful about passages in Stoic texts which have hitherto been of little interest to scholarship. 9

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Reaching for Perfection
Subtitle of host publication	Studies on the Means and Goals of Ascetical Practice in an Interreligious Perspective
Editors	Joseph Verheyden, Geert Roskam, Ann Heirman, Johan Leemans
Place of Publication	Leuven
Publisher	Peeters Publishers
Pages	9-28
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	9789042949980
ISBN (Print)	9789042949973
Publication status	Published - 10 Nov 2022

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Name	Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium
Publisher	Peeters Publishers
Number	329

Keywords

Stoicism
Religion
Spirituality
Anatheism
Stoic
ancient philosophy

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Lampe, K. W. (2022). The Spiritual Dimension of Stoic Ascesis. In J. Verheyden, G. Roskam, A. Heirman, & J. Leemans (Eds.), Reaching for Perfection: Studies on the Means and Goals of Ascetical Practice in an Interreligious Perspective (pp. 9-28). (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium; No. 329). Peeters Publishers. https://www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?search_key=9789042949973&series_number_str=329&lang=en

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Lampe, KW 2022, The Spiritual Dimension of Stoic Ascesis. in J Verheyden, G Roskam, A Heirman & J Leemans (eds), Reaching for Perfection: Studies on the Means and Goals of Ascetical Practice in an Interreligious Perspective. Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, no. 329, Peeters Publishers, Leuven, pp. 9-28. <https://www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?search_key=9789042949973&series_number_str=329&lang=en>

The Spiritual Dimension of Stoic Ascesis. / Lampe, Kurt W.
Reaching for Perfection: Studies on the Means and Goals of Ascetical Practice in an Interreligious Perspective. ed. / Joseph Verheyden; Geert Roskam; Ann Heirman; Johan Leemans. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2022. p. 9-28 (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium; No. 329).

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