Concentrating on arguments in moral psychology surrounding the foundations of human sociability and self-love, this book details how the engagement with Roman Stoicism shaped early modern political philosophy. It offers interpretations of Lipsius and Rousseau. "Philosophic Pride is an extremely rich study that offers new insights in and interpretations of the works of established authors such as Lipsius, Grotius, Hobbes, and Rousseau, while minutely tracing down the Stoic foundations of early modern politics in the works of a nearly countless number of well-known and lesser known authors. Without doubt, Christopher Brooke's book-length study will be of great interest to intellectual historians, scholars of the history of political thought, and historians of philosophy."---Erik de Bom, Renaissance Quarterly