The Cambridge companion to ancient ethics / edited by Christopher Bobonich.
Bobonich, Christopher, editor.
2017
BJ161 .C363 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
The Cambridge companion to ancient ethics / edited by Christopher Bobonich.
ISBN
9781107053915 (hardcover)
1107053919 (hardcover)
9781107652316 (paperback)
1107652316 (paperback)
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, ©2017.
Language
English
Description
xi, 395 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number
BJ161 .C363 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
170.93
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.
Note
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-380) and index.
Added Author
Bobonich, Christopher, editor.
Series
Cambridge companions.
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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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