Emotion and Peace of Mind

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Emotion and Peace of Mind is written by Richard Sorabji and published by Clarendon Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0191544035 (ISBN 10) and 9780191544033 (ISBN 13).

Richard Sorabji presents a ground-breaking study of ancient Greek views of the emotions and their influence on subsequent theories and attitudes, pagan and Christian. The key questions are ones that concern everyone: what is emotion, and how does one cope with one's own emotions and establish peace of mind? The central focus of the book is the Stoics, but Sorabji draws on a vast range of texts to give a rich historical survey of how Western thinking about this central aspect of human nature developed. The result is a magisterial work of scholarship which will be fascinating for anyone with an interest in the emotions from a historical or contemporary perspective.