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In Spring 2013 we shall run a research seminar / reading group on Mondays 2.00-4.00 at King's College London (Philosophy Building, Room 508). Texts will be circulated in advance. Each week the text will be introduced briefly, followed by discussion. All welcome. Further info and updates will be posted in due course on the website:  http://earlymodernstoicism.blogspot.co.uk/  Schedule 14 Jan - Lipsius I: Stoicism and Neostoicism (introduced by JS). Reading: De Constantia 1.17-20.21 Jan - Lipsius II: The Benefits of Misfortune (introduced by JS). Reading: De Constantia2.6-17.28 Jan - Montaigne (introduced by AD). Reading: Essais 1.14 &#38; 3.10.4 Feb - Bacon: On the Nature of the Good and the Culture of the Mind (introduced by James Lancaster). Reading: The Advancement of Learning, OFB IV, pp. 135-56.11 Feb - Descartes I (introduced by MK). Reading: Descartes-Elisabeth Correspondence (D-E: 8 July 1644, D-E 18 May 1645, E-D 24 May 1645, D-E May or June 1645, E-D 22 June 1645, D-E June 1645, D-E 21 July 1645, D-E 4 Aug 1645, E-D 16 Aug 1645, D-E 18 Aug 1645, E-D Aug 1645, D-E 1 Sep 1645, E-D 13 Sep 1645, D-E 15 Sep 1645,E-D 30 Sep 1645, D-E 6 Oct 1645, E-D 28 Oct 1645, D-E 3 Nov 1645, E-D 30 Nov 1645, D-E Jan 1646, E-D 25 April 1646, D-E May 1646 A, D-E May 1646 B, D-E Nov 1646, E-D 29 Nov 1646, D-E Dec 1646, E-D 5 Dec 1647, D-E 31 Jan 1648, D-E 22 Feb 1649); Descartes-Queen Christina Correspondence (20 Nov 1647; D-Chanut 20 Nov 1647; D-Chanut 31 March 1649); cf. CSM III, p. 237 ff.Reading Week25 Feb - Descartes II: Generosite (introduced by SJ). Reading: Discourse on Method, Parts 1-3; Passions of the Soul, Part 3.4 Mar - Spinoza I: Passions (introduced by MK). Reading: Short Treatise II chs 1-7; Ethics III P1-P31; IV P1-P17.11 Mar - Spinoza II: Determinism (introduced by AD). Reading: Ethics I Appendix; II P49 (with Corollary and Scholium); Principles of Cartesian Philosophy Appendix: I, ch. 3; II, chs 8-9.18 Mar - Cudworth: Fate and Free Will (introduced by JS). Reading: A Treatise of Freewillesp. chs 1-3, 9-10, 14, 18.25 Mar - Shaftesbury: Living According to Nature (introduced by JS). Reading Askêmata ‘The End’ &#38; ‘Good &#38; Ill’ (Std Edn, pp. 126-39).