Regret : a study in ancient moral psychology / James Warren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warren, James, 1974- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Aristotle.

Regret.

Stoics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 194 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Study in ancient moral psychology

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

This work provides a study of regret in the moral psychology of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics. Warren provides a detailed account of their views on the nature of this emotion, as related to their understanding of virtue and ethical knowledge and development.

Contents:

Introduction: Why regret?

1. Virtue, Metameleia, regret, and remorse

2. Plato on regret, akrasia, and the tyrannical soul

3. Aristotle on regret and counter-voluntary actions

4. Aristotle on regret and akrasia

5. Metameleia and ignorance

6. Stoic regret

7. Gellius and Gallus on the limits of regret

8. Epilogue.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-266545-6

0-19-257656-9

0-19-188266-6