Pleasure and the good life : Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists /

"The volume sheds light on the discussion between hedonists and anti-hedonists, by concentrating on the 'crucial point' at which any philosophical analysis of the good life (hedonistic or other) ought to argue that the life of the philosopher is the most desirable, and thus truly plea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Riel, Gerd van
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2000.
Colección:Philosophia antiqua ; v. 85.
Temas:
Platon > Et le plaisir.
Aristote > Et le plaisir.
Plotin > Et le désir.
Proclus, > approximately 410-485 > Et le plaisir.
Damascius, > approximately 480-approximately 550 > Et le plaisir.
Platon. > Philèbe.
Pleasure.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Pleasure > Philosophy.
Plaisir > Philosophie.
Philosophie ancienne.
Plaisir.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Pleasure > Philosophy
Philosophy, Ancient
Pleasure
Philosophy & Religion.
Philosophy.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; PLEASURE ANDTHE GOOD LIFE; CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One. Two Paradigms : Plato and Aristotle; I. Plato: The 'Replenishment Theory'; 1. From the Protagoras to the Republic; 2. The Philebus; 2.1. The Definition of Pleasure; 2.2. Plato's Critique of Hedonism; 3. An Evaluation of Plato's Theory; 3.1. A Positive Doctrine?; 3.2. The Physiological Presuppositions of the Definition; 3.3. The Identity of Pleasure and Replenishment; 3.4. Plato's Merits; II. Aristotle: The 'Theory of the Perfect Activity'; 1. Aristotle's Rejection of the Platonic Definition
  • 1.1. The 'Platonic' Definition of Pleasure1.2. Aristotle's Criticism; 2. A New Model; 2.1. Aristotle's Definition of Pleasure; 2.2. Pleasure as a 'Supervenient Element'; 2.3. The 'Proper Pleasure'; 3. Consequences of Aristotle's New Model; 3.1. Pleasure is not a Movement; 3.2. Pleasure is not Excessive per se; 3.3. 'Pure' Pleasure; 4. An Evaluation of the Aristotelian Account; Chapter Two. The Standard Neoplatonic Theory: Plotinus and Proclus; I. Plotinus; 1. Plotinus' Definition of Pleasure; 2. Plotinus' Refutation of Hedonism; 3. 'Pleasure' in the Good Life; 4. Conclusion; II. Proclus
  • 4.1.1. Perception as a 'Mixture of Desire and Cognition4.1.2. The Desire of the Knowing Intellect; 4.2. The 'Mixture of Desire and Cognition'; 4.3. 'Essence' and the 'Way towards the Essence'; 5. 'Struggling with Tradition'; 5.1. The Proclean Position; 5.2. Damascius' 'Correction' of Proclus' Position; 6. Two Kinds of Pleasure; 7. An Original Reading of Plato; 8. A Hierarchy of the Kinds of Pleasure; Conclusion; Bibliography; Indices; 1. Index rerum; Greek English Glossary; 2. Index locorum; 3. Index nominum; PHILOSOPHIA ANTIQUA

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