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The Cambridge companion to ancient ethics / edited by Christopher Bobonich.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge companionsPublication details: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, c2017.Description: xi, 395 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1107053919 (hbk.)
  • 9781107053915 (hbk.) :
  • 1107652316 (pbk.)
  • 9781107652316 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 170.93 23
LOC classification:
  • BJ161 .C36 2017
Contents:
Part I : Origins -- What is pre-Socratic ethics? / Andr©♭ 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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 358-380) and index.

Part I : Origins -- What is pre-Socratic ethics? / Andr©♭ 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.

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.

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