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Knowledge, nature, and the good : essays on ancient philosophy /

Knowledge, Nature, and the Good brings together some of John Cooper's most important works on ancient philosophy. In thirteen chapters that represent an ideal companion to the author's influential Reason and Emotion, Cooper addresses a wide range of topics and periods--from Hippocratic med...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cooper, John M. (John Madison), 1939-2022
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Knowledge
  • Method and science in On ancient medicine
  • Plato on sense-perception and knowledge (Theaetetus 184-186)
  • Plato, Isocrates, and Cicero on the independence of oratory from philosophy
  • Arcesilaus : Socratic and skeptic
  • Nature
  • Aristotle on natural teleology
  • Hypothetical necessity
  • Two notes on Aristotle on mixture
  • Metaphysics in Aristotle's embryology
  • Stoic autonomy
  • The good
  • Two theories of justice
  • Plato and Aristotle on "finality" and "(Self)sufficiency"
  • Moral theory and moral improvement : Seneca
  • Moral theory and moral improvement : Marcus Aurelius.