Antiochus and peripatetic ethics / Georgia Tsouni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsouni, Georgia, author.

Series:

Cambridge classical studies.

Cambridge classical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antiochus, of Ascalon, approximately 130 B.C.-69 or 68 B.C.

Antiochus.

Peripatetics.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 233 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This book offers a fresh analysis of the account of Peripatetic ethics in Cicero's On Ends 5, which goes back to the first-century BCE philosopher Antiochus of Ascalon. Georgia Tsouni challenges previous characterisations of Antiochus' philosophical project as 'eclectic' and shows how his reconstruction of the ethics of the 'Old Academy' demonstrates a careful attempt to update the ancient heritage, and predominantly the views of Aristotle and the Peripatos, in the light of contemporary Stoic-led debates. This results in both a hermeneutically complex and a philosophically exciting reading of the old tradition. A case in point is the way Antiochus grounds the 'Old Academic' conception of the happy life in natural appropriation (oikeiosis), thus offering a naturalistic version of Aristotelian ethics.

Contents:

Antiochus in Rome

'Old academic' history of philosophy

Oikeiosis and the telos

Self-love in the Antiochean-peripatetic account

'Cradle arguments' and the objects of Oikeiosis

Oikeiosis towards theoretical virtue

Social Oikeiosis

The Antiochean conception of the happy life

Animals and plants in Antiochus' ethical account.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Feb 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-35619-2

1-108-35479-3

1-108-35955-8