The Cambridge companion to ancient ethics / edited by Christopher Bobonich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Semley, Lorelle D., 1969- author.

Contributor:

Bobonich, Christopher, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics, Ancient.

Ethics--Greece.

Ethics.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 395 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

The field of ancient Greek ethics is increasingly emerging as a major branch of philosophical enquiry, and students and scholars of ancient philosophy will find this Companion to be a rich and invaluable guide to the themes and movements which characterised the discipline from the Pre-Socratics to the Neo-Platonists. Several chapters are dedicated to the central figures of Plato and Aristotle, and others explore the ethical thought of the Stoics, the Epicureans, the Skeptics, and Plotinus. Further chapters examine important themes that cut across these schools, including virtue and happiness, friendship, elitism, impartiality, and the relationship between ancient eudaimonism and modern morality. Written by leading scholars and drawing on cutting-edge research to illuminate the questions of ancient ethics, the book will provide students and specialists with an indispensable critical overview of the full range of ancient Greek ethics.

Contents:

Part I : Origins

What is pre-socratic ethics? / André Laks

The historical Socrates / David Conan Wolfsdorf

Part II : Plato

Virtue and happiness in Plato / Daniel Devereux

Plato's ethical psychology / Rachana Kamtekar

Plato on love and friendship / Frisbee Sheffield

Part III : Aristotle

Aristotle on virtue and happiness / David Charles

Aristotle's ethical psychology / Jessica Moss

Aristotle on love and friendship / Corinne A. Gartner

Part IV : The Hellenistics and beyond

Epicurus and the Epicureans on ethics / Raphael Woolf

The Stoics on virtue and happiness / Katja Maria Vogt

The Stoics' ethical psychology / Margaret Graver

Skeptical ethics / Luca Castagnoli

Ethics in Plotinus and his successors / Dominic J. O'Meara

Part V : Themes

Ancient Eudaimonism and modern morality / Julia Annas

Partiality and impartiality in ancient ethics / Richard Kraut

Elitism in Plato and Aristotle / Christopher Bobonich

Becoming godlike / David Sedley

Horace and practical philosophy / Terence Irwin.

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ISBN:

9781107284258

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