Pleasure, mind, and soul : selected papers in ancient philosophy / C.C.W. Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, C. C. W. (Christopher Charles Whiston), 1936- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Aristotle.

Pleasure.

Ethics.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

MARC index or indices

Other Title:

Selected papers in ancient philosophy

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The book presents in chapter format a selection of the author's essays in ancient philosophy, drawn from forty years of writings on the subject. The central theme is the moral psychology of Plato and Aristotle, with a special focus on pleasure and related concepts. It also contains discussions of Socrates and the Greek atomists (including the Epicureans) showing how Plato's ethics grows out of the thought of Socrates, and showing also that pleasure is a central concept for the atomists. It surveys a range of important topics in the work of some of the greatest ancient philosophers, which remain the subject of lively philosophical debate today."-- Title details screen.

Contents:

1. Pleasure, Knowledge, and Sensation in Democritus (1967); 2. 'All Perceptions Are True' (1980); 3. Plato, Hare, and Davidson on Akrasia (1980); 4. The End of the Euthyphro (1982); 5. The Arguments in the Phaedo Concerning the Thesis that the Soul is a Harmonia (1983); 6. Plato and Aristotle on the Criterion of Real Pleasures (1983); 7. Urmson on Aristotle on Pleasure (1988); 8. Popular Morality and Unpopular Philosophy (1990); 9. Socratic Ethics (1992); 10. Platonic Ethics (1998); 11. The Atomists (1999)

12. Aristotle on the Practical Intellect (2003); 13. Plato on Rationality and Happiness (2003); 14. Pleasure: Aristotle's Response to Plato (2003); 15. The Hedonism of the Protagoras Reconsidered (2003); 16. Wisdom and Courage in the Protagoras and the Nicomachean Ethics (2004); 17. Socrates (2005); 18. Democritus and Lucretius on Death and Dying (2007); 19. Socrates under the Severans (2007); General Bibliography; Publications of C. C. W. Taylor; Index of Passages Cited; General Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [340]-349) and indexes.

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ISBN:

1-281-14996-9

9786611149963

0-19-152764-5

OCLC:

193757449