Individual and conflict in Greek ethics / Nicholas White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Nicholas, 1942- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics--Greece.

Ethics.

Ethics--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 369 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nicholas White opposes the long-standard view that ancient Greek ethics is fundamentally different from modern ethical views, especially those prevalent since Kant. Since the eighteenth century, and indeed since before Hegel, moral philosophers wishing to oppose the dualism of rationality-cum-morality vs. inclination, especially as it is manifested in Kant, have looked to Greek thought for an alternative conception of ethical norms and the good life. As a result, Greek ethics,particularly in the so-called Classical period of the fourth century BCE, has for more than two centuries been standard

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1. The Idea of Hellenic Harmony; I. Motivations of Philosophical Historiography; II. Historiographical Themes: Modern Fragmentation and Ancient Harmony; III. More Recent Responses among Classicists to the Theme of Hellenic Harmony; IV. Some Philosophers' Responses to Greek Ethics; V. The Kantian Response; VI. Schiller's Reaction; VII. The Hegelian Response; VIII. Nietzsche and his Infuence; 2. Deliberative Conflict; I. The Kantian and Hegelian Responses Early in the Twentieth Century; II. Moore's Non-Eudaimonist Reading of Plato

III. More Recent Philosophical Views of Greek EthicsIV. The Importance of Deliberative Conflict: Morality; V. The Importance of Deliberative Conflict: The Ethics of Virtue; VI. The Importance of Deliberative Conflict: Contingency; VII. Aims and Conflict; 3. Imperatives in Greek Ethics; I. The Rejection of lmperativity; II. The Ethics of Duty and the Ethics of Virtue; III. The Nostalgic Flight from Imperativity; IV. Imperatives, Attractives, and Repulsives; V. Uses of Imperativity in Greek Literature

VI. The Alleged 'Transition' to Roman Christianity: Imperativity in Greek Ethics after AristotleVII. Imperativity in Aristotle; VIII. Imperativity in Plato; IX. Imperatives in Ethics and their Philosophical Examination; 4. The City-State in Greek Ethics; I. The Hegelian Conception of the Polis; II. Some Assumptions of the Hegelian Account; III. Norms Independent of the Polis; IV. The Golden Rule; V. On Some Sources of Confusion about Greek Norms; VI. The Kosmos; 5. Individual Good and Deliberative Conflict through the Time of Plato; I. Homogeneity and Variety in Classical Greek Ethics

II. Before Plato's TimeIII. Plato's Milieu: Thrasymachus; IV. Plato's Milieu: Socrates; V. Some Platonic Passages outside the Republic; VI. The Republic: Plato's Project; VII. The Republic: The Rulers' Choice; 6. Individual Good and Deliberative Conflict in Aristotle; I. The Periods of Greek Ethics; II. Aristotle, the Harmonizing Eudaimonist; III. The Kantian and Hegelian Interpretations of Aristotle; IV. The Need for a Non-Harmonizing Interpretation; V. The Question of Conflict within Ethical Virtue; VI. Theôria; VII. Philia; VIII. Politics, Biology, and Cosmology

IX. Eudaimonism without Harmony7. Conflict and Individual Good in Hellenistic Ethics; I. The Traditional Picture of Hellenistic Ethics; II. Systematic Monism in Hellenistic Ethics; III. Epicureanism; IV. The Stoics ; 8. Towards an Understanding of the History of Greek Ethics; I. On Some Ideas about Differences Between Ancient and Modern Ethics; II. Greek Eudaimonism; III. Self-Referential, Partly Self-Referential, and Universal Aims; IV. Eudaimonism and Egoism; V. Eudaimonism and Harmony; VI. Greek Ethics: Development and Variety; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-363) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-927542-4

1-282-00688-6

9786612006883

0-19-152025-X

OCLC:

63294072