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Aristotle and Menander on the ethics of understanding /
In Aristotle and Menander on the Ethics of Understanding, Valeria Cinaglia offers a parallel study of Menander's New Comedy and Aristotle's philosophy and she explores the depth and implications of their analogies in subjects ranging from epistemology and psychology to ethics.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Brill,
2014.
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| Colección: | Philosophia antiqua: a series of studies on ancient philosophy ;
volume 138. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on Conventions; Introduction; 1. Setting the Scene: Aristotle and Menander; 2. Menander and Theophrastus on Character(s)?; 3. The Structure of the Book and the Method of Enquiry; Chapter 1. Setting the Broader Background; 1. Understanding, Ethics and Ancient Philosophy; 2. Understanding, Ethics and Aesthetic Pleasure; Chapter 2. Degrees of Understanding: Menander and Aristotle on How We Understand; 1. Epitrepontes: Recognition and Understanding; 2. Notes on Recognition in Euripides' Electra; 3. Aristotle: Grasping the Sense.
- 3.1. Understanding and Missing Understanding3.2. Grasping and Missing the Grasp; 4. Conclusions; Chapter 3. The Misleading Power of Perceptions and Emotions; 1. "Is This Plausible?" (Men. Sam. 216); 1.1. Demeas; 1.2. Moschion; 2. Aristotle on the Vulnerability of Correct (Ethical) Reasoning; 2.1. Thinking about One's Own Perceptions; 2.2. Acting on the Basis of One's Own Perceptions; 3. Conclusions; Chapter 4. Chance, Ignorance and Human Agency; 1. A Play of Chance / A Chance to Play; 1.1. Perikeiromene; 1.1.1. The Prologue of Agnoia; 1.1.2. Polemon and Moschion; 1.2. Aspis.
- 1.2.1. The Prologue of Tychē1.2.2. Smikrines and Daos; 1.3. Divine Prologue Speakers and Related Matters; 2. Aristotle on Chance, Ignorance and Rational Agents; 2.1. Prologues and Likelihood; 2.2. Aristotle, Tychē and Agnoia; 2.2.1. Chance and Mere Chance; 2.2.2. Voluntary, Non-Voluntary, Involuntary Actions; 3. Conclusions; Chapter 5. Character, Ethics and Human Relationships: Aristotle and Menander on How We Learn to Be Good and How We Become Bad; 1. Dyscolos: The Young Man and the Old Man; 1.2. Other Examples of Young Men and Old Men; 2. Aristotle on the Individual and His Community.
- 2.1. Listening and Watching Friends2.2. Talking and Living with Friends; 3. Conclusions; Conclusions; Bibliography; General Index; Index of Ancient Sources.